The Toronto Garlic Festival is happening this weekend, but come on, what’s so great about garlic? It’s a fad. It’s only been in use for a few… thousand years. But seriously, what is it good for? Turns out, garlic does just about everything. We’ve listed 10 uses below.
- Prevent colds. Warning: it may cause garlic breath, but…
- You could win a strongest garlic breath contest.
- Look pretty. Garlic treats acne and combats hair loss.
- Fight yeast infections.
- Repel mosquitoes and fleas.
- Fix broken glassware.
- Make fish bait.
- Keep pests out of your garden.
- Protect against arthritis (garlic has anti-inflammatory properties).
- And some imaginative people even go so far as to cook with garlic!
Toronto Garlic Festival, Evergreen Brick Works, Oct. 13-14
Evan Andrew Mackay is a Toronto playwright and humorist who writes about culture and social justice.