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Can't you buy this for 2 cents per clove of garlic at the supermarket?


> Can't you buy this for 2 cents per clove of garlic at the supermarket?

Look up 'food deserts' sometime:

http://www.cdc.gov/features/fooddeserts/

http://www.fooddesert.net/


This is really epsilon from trolling. You could just as effectively have pointed out that there are people in Sub-Saharan Africa that don't have access to food at all.

If you don't have access to garlic, you don't have access to food. You are no longer debating the merits of different techniques. Garlic is universal; it's an integral part of peasant food in Mexico, South America, Africa, and of course all of Asia. Garlic is not a luxury item.


You're not reading my cites. I'm talking about food deserts in the US, places where the only place to buy food is a convenience store with either no fresh foods or massively overpriced fresh foods.


I'm well aware of what a "food desert" is. I live in Chicago. What I don't understand is what that has to do with garlic, or how you managed to somehow pivot from garlic to an addled, irrelevant argument about privilege.

I wouldn't care so much except you used the one food item gourmet cooking shares with all cooking around the world across every economic class everywhere to do it with, and I just couldn't handle it.


> to an addled, irrelevant argument about privilege.

No, I did not. You're the one who brought up privilege.

> all cooking around the world across every economic class everywhere

Traditional cooking, maybe, but that is less and less relevant to what the underclasses actually eat in the First World these days, and food deserts explain why.


I fixed your garlic problem in your food desert: http://www.amazon.com/Casa-Fruta-Fresh-Garlic-3lb/dp/B000Z8T...


The guy has access to onions and (gasp!) mushrooms, so he certainly has access to garlic. If you live in a place where you don't even have access to garlic that's very sad.




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