>>25518078
Few months ago I encountered a garlic farmer on the internet. Among describing his road to success he told that chain stores need huge quantities of garlic, more than anybody grows, so they import it from China. Restaurant chefs dislike cheap purple chinese garlic because it's 3 times weaker than russian white garlic and you'd have to put so much more of it to get it right, so they find local farmers and buy garlic from them, it costs more but they don't need few hundred tons monthly anyway.
I was like woah mang, so that's why I had to put 2-4x amount of garlic of what I used to 20 years ago, it's not my taste buds dulling. Took me checking a few places to find white russian garlic and I am not going back to weak chinese one.