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Newscast, listen on BBC Science. We're better to start than in a history class for 14 and 15 year old.

Back in 1971 as we prepared to become part of Europe, a primitive fear took hold of the nation.

How do you think it will affect your life?

I think there changes from having what we usually

do, you know fish and chips and all the normal English foods. They'll make us eat

those things with all garlic and all that rubbish in them. Garlic, smelly and foreign, symbol of all we didn't want from across the channel.

Yet we've had a checkered relationship with the mighty bulb, one of about 600 varieties of Allium.

In Germany, Garlic was something the peasants ate.

So George's first, second, third, fourth,

Queen Victoria, and even Mrs. Beattan, who said that persons of rank, taste and distinction merely rub the salad bowl.

Delicately rubbing garlic into wood to flavor your salad is a bit arcane now.

In 2010, we imported nearly 20,000 tons of bulbs, five times what we brought in 25

years ago. Garlic today is ordinary. We've taken to those foreign ways. But how much have we thought about it?

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