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From: winkler@harvard.ARPA (Dan Winkler)
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Subject: Ira answers common Garlic questions
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 13:09:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 13:09:08 1984
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Here is a letter to Ira containing some common garlic questions:

	I've seen the "Garlic is as good as ten mothers" bandanna put out by the
	National Rutabaga Company, but I have never understood it.  Is Les Blank
	really a garlic connoisseur, or is there a deeper meaning?  What is his
	film about?
	
	Hoping for enlightenment...
	
Ira replies:

	1. Les Blank is a Garlic connoisseur.

	2. His film documents attitudes toward garlic consumption in the
		San Francisco and Los Angelos areas.  It includes a
		sequence from the 1979 Gilroy (California) Garlic
		Festival in which an Andalusian Gypsy talks about
		garlic keeping him alive during the Spanish civil war.

	3. No deeper meaning.  The comparison (to mom) is self
		explanatory.  But if you need further elucidation, the
		following benefits can be had from eating garlic:

			A. A gustatory high. 
			B. Lowered blood pressure.
			C. Resistance against certain types of infections 
				(mostly upper respiratory)
			D. Better digestion. 
				(increased secretion of gastric juices)
			E. Aphrodisiac benefits.

				Aromatically,
					Ira Braus