ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 11th September 2023

Episode Date: September 10, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Fletch made a Garlic discovery during the weekend!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fletchbourne and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with my Macca's rewards. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. And what a weekend it was because a revelation, a garlic revelation. Oh. Vaughan knows about this. I do.

What's happened? He shared with me some garlic news. I said to Vaughan, so I went to Sumanga the weekend and I wanted to buy some bulbs of garlic. Yum. Because, I mean, you know, I use the pottle of crushed garlic. Yeah. Shame on you. That's handy, but, you know, God knows how that's...

It's not the same flavour. Yeah, that's not. And when you're frying some veggies, it's nice to have, like, the bulbs of garlic in there. Big bits of garlic. Yeah, big bits of garlic. Yum. And so I got this little basket of garlic. There's, like, five or garlic in there. Big bits of garlic. Yeah, big bits of garlic. Yum. And so I got this little basket of garlic. There's like five or six in there.

I was like, perfect, because I don't need a lot. Yeah. This is perfect. And then I go to peel the garlic, like to get a bulb out. And I'm like, well, this is weird. This isn't your usual garlic. And that's when I messaged Vaughan. I was like, have you ever seen these garlics before?

You peel the whole thing and inside it's just one big thing of garlic what yeah it's not segmented garlic I know

wait do you have a photo of this yes I sent a photo to Vaughan I'll forward it on to you excuse me why was I not

why was I not sent this picture of a garlic bowl because you muted all the group chats your communication lately has been fucking terrible Sproul

it's been terrible I just think we spend all morning talking to each other You muted all the group chats. Your communication lately has been fucking terrible, Sprout. It's been terrible. I just think we spend all morning talking to each other, and sometimes during the day it gets a bit much. What it's called is it's called Solo Garlic. So I'll send you the Wikipedia, and then I'll send you a picture of what they look like there. I'm just saying, sorry, listener.

I'm just bringing Hayley up. Dude, I'm going to grow. I should grow some. Oh, you can get pecs. Dude, I'm going to grow... I should grow some. I should grow some. Oh, my God. How bizarre. Georgia, did you know about this garlic? Come on the microphone because it blew my mind. And I needed to tell people about this.

So wait, it's not in cloves. It's not in cloves. It's one big bulb and then you just cut what you need. Oh, my God. I want that because I hate peeling them. You've what? I'm all about a garlic finger, otherwise, like... You mean a clove?

No, but, like... A segment. You know how when you, like, peel it and you get garlicky fingers? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I see you get that. No, you still get garlic fingers with these. Don't peel garlic. It's sticky.

No, what? Everyone peels garlic. If you're cooking it, you don't peel the garlic. Oh, no, you have to. If you're roasting it, you just chuck a whole garlic in, and then you just squeeze it at the end, and it splurts in. Oh, yeah. But in a pan, if you're chopping it up to stir fry,

you don't want the skin in there. No. No, because if you take off the outside ones, but don't go crazy, because the other thing just turns very edible after cooking anyway. But, like, blew my fucking mind. Do I want some of these bags? Blew my mind.

Oh, my God. I just put the whole thing in. Yeah, it's so yum So yum Because it looks like It looks like it has segments Like it looks like But it doesn't

It's insane They must have genetically bred this That's hot That's hot This is hot Well surely we can find out here On the Wikipedia page Solo garlic

It's the size of a single glow Were you making nachos? I was making nachos yeah I can see in the back of your photo you've got some nice corn chips. Those corn chips are the best corn chips in the world. You were making nachos and you were putting whole garlic in. I was always chopped up the garlic into little bits. Oh, very posh.

Very posh. Because if it was just manky old nachos, I probably just would have used crushed garlic in the jar. Yeah, but I wanted to, you know, put some effort in. It's got a lot of shallot vibes, to be fair. No, but it wanted to, you know, put some effort in. It gives off shallot vibes, to be fair. No, but it's a garlic. It's not an onion. Shallots are onions, Garth.

Would you shut the fuck up, garlic girl? You're a fucking idiot. Georgia. What's wrong with you? They're not the same at all. Because you get a shallot. A shallot looks like an onion. No, but shallots are tiny.

This gives off like. Yeah, but they're tiny onions. Not everything that's small is a shallot, Georgia. The triodiaris is not a shallot. She probably thinks a mandarin is a shallot. Shallot is a snail, a shallot! It basically is. It gives off the same vibe.

You get it for convenience and flavour. I'm telling you, these are like... I will not go back to other garlic now But do you get the option? What do you mean? Did it say whole garlic and normal garlic? I didn't even know this was a thing And I just thought I was buying garlic

I've never seen this before in my life Much like the COVID virus It originated in China Solar garlic is believed to have originated in Yunnan, China, a mountainous area The product in China is known as only child garlic. Oh, because it's only one. Yeah, the only child garlic, not the family, the cluster of garlic.

But do you think chefs and stuff like traditionalists would like, because there's something about seeing a whole clove of garlic in a roast or something is nice. Do you think that they'd go down this, like proper chefs won't like these, eh? They wouldn't, less prep. I mean, if you were going to cut it into little bits, this is the way to go. Yeah, because it's less skin.

You can still cut segments, but they're just more, you can tell they're cut. I like this. Give it a go. I'm going to get it next time. Give it a go. So small bulbs of solar garlic can be obtained by planting the bulbils of any variety of garlic. Okay.

However, commercial production comes from areas where garlic is likely to produce a solar bulb. Due to environmental factors. Oh, wait. What are these environmental factors? What, like nuclear waste? Nuclear waste. The climate in these areas combined with careful cultivation leads to the large percentage of the garlic crop

failing to split into multiple cloves. So rather than it... Because you only have to plant one clove of garlic to get it to split into the bowl. But whatever the environmental factors, and it sounds mountainous, so it might be cold, fails to duplicate.

And instead the one just goes... Because that's why it looks like it segments on the outside. When you peel the one. Yeah, it just didn't split. It just didn't split. Oh my God, this is life changing. It should be in the odd bunch at the supermarket then, isn't it? Because it's got a defect.

How good is the odd bunch? What with the rest of the shallots? Idiot. Idiot, Georgia. You know, like banana shallots, apple shallots. Orange shallots. Orange shallots. Soup shallots.

Seafood shallots. Bread shallots orange shallots orange shallots seafood shallots bread shallots buns buns and Georgia's mind are just bread shallots oh we've had fun ripping on Georgia haven't we

and learning about garlic