Garlic for lunch

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Trying to settle a debate with DP.
If gong to work a late afternoon/evening shift, would you eat garlic in a pasta sauce for lunch?
One things no, one things if you do your teeth and use mouthwash it’s fine?

YABU - eat the garlic
YANBU - don’t eat the garlic

That's not much garlic really. Also depends on the job. If you're a dentist or hairdresser or driving instructor in close proximity to people maybe you need to be a bit considerate. But otherwise nah

Surely noone has worried about garlic breath since about 1987?

I hate the smell of garlic on other people so don’t eat much of it.
It depends on the work though - if they are a cater and close to people then no I wouldn’t go in smelling of garlic

Wouldn't even think about it, would do and have done I the past. If I smelt garlic on a colleague it wouldn't bother me either though I used to work with the general public and have smelled far worse things coming off people

I'd eat exactly what I fancied on the menu. It wouldn't cross my mind to think about garlic.

Do you become "tolerant" to garlic. I had my first (known) experience of it when I had garlic bread with colleagues c. 1988. I remember next morning feeling like it was seeping out of my pores and I was breathing clouds of it. I'm not aware of it at all anymore. If others are, they've never mentioned it. (Including DH and DC who would have!)

@Spiceup

I'd eat exactly what I fancied on the menu. It wouldn't cross my mind to think about garlic.

Do you become "tolerant" to garlic. I had my first (known) experience of it when I had garlic bread with colleagues c. 1988. I remember next morning feeling like it was seeping out of my pores and I was breathing clouds of it. I'm not aware of it at all anymore. If others are, they've never mentioned it. (Including DH and DC who would have!)

I've found this too, there's plenty of people who would tell me if they could smell it and they never have

@JingsMahBucket

It’s not the 1800s where garlic is considered “spicy foreign food” by pale British people. Eat the freaking garlic. Seriously, nobody cares.

This is my thinking too. I’m amazed anyone even thinks about garlic these days.

I eat garlic in every meal if I can! The health benefits and deliciousness way outrank the risk of smelling like garlic. Anyway, mouthwash, toothpaste, and gum exist so it's a non issue anyway! Ps: does anyone eat pasta sauce WITHOUT garlic? 🤮

This is a very British concern! In Europe, Asia etc they eat loads of garlic in lunch, dinner etc and no one bats an eyelid. When my in laws in southern Europe cook for me they throw a whole bulb of garlic in to each meal. They have a proper cooked meal for every lunch too (they can't believe the British eat sandwiches for lunch). I've never notice noticed anyone smelling of garlic there and even if I did I wouldn't care less. I eat garlic whenever I want. It's healthy and makes food so much tastier.

We ate the garlic 😂
Hang over from being brought up that it was very wrong and socially unacceptable to do so and you could only eat it in a restaurant of the person with you was also eating garlic!
Undoing a lot of the shit from my childhood.

Good gravy, eat as much garlic as you want whenever you want, it's entirely your prerogative. I'm sure lots of people on their death bed spent their final hours being glad they turned down tasty food just in case someone else briefly had the experience of sensing a garlic smell. Do these anti garlic prudes only eat egg sandwiches in a sealed laboratory fume cabinet? Only cook bacon on a boat when at least 3 miles from shore? Garlic doesn't have a nasty smell, it smells of garlic. Entirely baseless social conditioning which people have a moral obligation to recalibrate themselves to avoid passing on this straight jacket of nonsense to younger generations

Sorry, is that what people do? 1 Clove between two? I usually reckon on 3/4 pp in an average tomato based sauce because its cooked through slowly so the harshness just isn't there anymore. A whole bulb for large slow baked curry type dishes, (again, this keeps the garlicbreathyness down I think and brings out the sweetness) half a clove in salad dressings as it's raw....
Had a lover once who ate whole cloves raw. That did smell.
But not bad, just a lot.

I'll eat it for breakfast if I'm so minded.

If people invade my space to the extent they can smell my breath, that's their tough luck. And there are far worse things your breath can smell of than garlic.

Each to their own of course but some of us actually do think garlic smells horrible on people’s breath. I don’t think people should stop eating it though

Eat the garlic, then chew some gum. Or don’t eat garlic, if you don’t believe in food being seasoned.

I think these days most people eat garlic so the whole smelling it on other people is far less of a thing. Unless you do one of these recipes when you roast a whole head, then it kind of seeps out of your pores.

Although I did have one colleague years ago who was really sensitive to it.

But yeah, eat the garlic!

I eat garlic most days. This would not even enter my mind. I'd put around 4 cloves in a pasta sauce, half a clove per person would barely even taste it let alone smell of it after.

I'm not sure that half a clove is even enough to count as adding garlic tbh.

I can’t stand garlic breath, I find it really revolting. “Garlic breath” isn’t the smell of actual garlic, it comes from the breath not the mouth and can’t be got rid of by toothbrushing or mouthwash

www.bbc.com/future/article/20161223-how-to-tackle-garlic-breath

I love garlic but wouldn’t eat it at lunchtime if I was working in the late afternoon / evening. Don’t bother having a go at me, I can see I’m in the minority!

I’ve been known to eat baked garlic on toast for lunch! I eat garlic whenever, doesn’t everyone?

If I’m making fried mushrooms with a cooked breakfast I’ll cook them in garlic butter. I’ll also use it in bruschetta.

If I was ever cooking a sauce I’d always use garlic - especially for pasta!

Surely if you smell garlic just brush your teeth or use a bit of lister one/chewing gum/mints!

Garlic is part of my daily diet. We go through bulbs of the stuff every week.
I have good oral hygiene and if I was worried about smelling strongly I would make sure I brushed my teeth again before going out and chew gum.
1 clove seems not nearly enough shared between 2 people!

As an aside, garlic has anti-viral properties especially if eaten raw, so not a bad thing to eat during a pandemic. It won't stop you catching a virus and it won't cure you but it slows the multiplication of the virus so your body can deal with it more quickly.

Half a clove is nowhere near enough garlic!
I wouldn’t avoid garlic at lunch. Can’t recall ever smelling it on anyone. Coffee breath however 🤢