The Garlic Revolution:
25 years of change
Henry BecketWAA'Garlic!' said one respondent, a middleaged middleclass woman, with horror, in answer to my question. 'He won't even let me have it in the house,' she said, speaking of her husband, 'It's French, and it stinks!'
And that is pretty much the way it was in the 1970s, when I first started attending consumer research groups. The British by and large liked their food bland, not foreign, and not 'tampered with', in their terms. Even if it sounded exotic or flavoursome, you can bet that it was 'toned down'...