![[QLD] 1kg Garlic Cloves $0.99 @ Cabbage Patch Discount Grocer - Deagon](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/22/764022.jpg?h=dcd77e96)
guaranteed vampire free time with this deal.
99cents for a kilo of garlic cloves.
vacuum sealed pack.
best before 13-06-2023
product of china.
[QLD] 1kg Garlic Cloves $0.99 @ Cabbage Patch Discount Grocer - Deagon
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hence the pricetag
A slight QLD tan..
Make sure you grab some discounted mouth fresheners on the way out
Never use China garlic
Always go for locally grown
It’s more expensive but it’s organic and tasty and you also know it’s not toxic or polluted and you support local businessesbut can you get 1kg for 99cents?
Chemo is more expensive
I don’t care
How much garlic you need for god sake. Only little bit. Even if you buy one or two enough.
Not all locally grown garlic would be organic.
I prefer local than any other from there. Local farmers are good.
I wonder what chemical is used to sterilise the garlic to remove soil pathogens before it is allowed in Australia? Dangerous or harmless?
I think also need to consider what’s in the soil to begin with…
Great for social distancing
Its hard to know if your Chinese garlic is sourced from legit farms and not prison slave labour. There are reports of Prison labour using their teeth to peel the garlic because their hands have been worn down. Just something to be mindful of. This was mentioned in a netflix series rotten under episode "garlic breath" . Personally I would steer clear of any food products from China due to poor safety standards. Theres countless stories coming out of china about all their counterfeit fake foods as well as 16.1 percent of chinas land being too pooluted to grow anything (3.33 million hectares) as well as 80 percent of chinas groundwater being too polluted. take of that what you will. Its one thing ot buy chinese products, its an entirely different beast to trust their food. yuk.,
100% agree
This link explains how China uses forced labour for a number of products not just garlic
https://www.ft.com/content/1416a056-833b-11e7-94e2-c5b903247…A number of frozen fish products from China using North Korean forced labour from just across the border have made their way into Australian supermarkets. I'm looking at you Aldi.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/21…
I think you have misread the article.
Its talking about USA supermarkets.
Trying to bring Aldi Australia into that is like trying to blame mcdonalds in Australia for something that happened in a Mcdonalds in China.
Have a look at the back of the frozen fish products in your local Aldi next time. 99% of them have Made in China.
Here is an article which is Australia based from SBS
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australias-imported-seaf…@scottishdave: Its better to expect that most products from China are some sort of forced labour, and we import an insane amount of products from China.
Actually, If they actually had a standards like Australia or had a governing body to oversea the agriculture it would be a different story. That being said majority of restaurants/cafes use china garlic and you wouldn't know. When i go to china for business i feel sick and lose appetite and need a complete detox when i get back to Australia.
Most of the foods in china are brought in from other countries, Peru, Thailand, Russia ,Vietnam and so forth. Most of the seafood is from Russia, Thailand and Vietnam and quality is not good (no code or standards). That's why when many visit Australia they come to the fish markets and love it hence why its always busy with buses.
interesting why i got a neg vote..?
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I wouldn't touch Chinese garlic even if it was free.. Stick to Aust. grown or if you're looking for cheaper variety, go for Spanish, Argentia, Mexican.
OMG, some of the comments were just hilarious!
When you are sick of the just plain old "buy local" - old wife's tales are used. My fav was people peeling the garlic with their teeth.
On a more serious note, China is just one of the biggest global garlic producers (almost 80% in the world). I would not buy peeled though, but not because it's Chinese.James Hardie was Australia's largest manufacturer of asbestos containing products throughout the 20th century.
Does that mean James Hardie must only produce safe products?
No, this is not what I said. I said there is so much of global garlic from China because China produces lots of garlic. Which allows it to sell it cheaply as well. In this particular case though, the store is just clearing it before it goes to waste that's why it is so cheap. As for the safety of said garlic - I have no idea, but just as I said before, will not buy peeled regardless of the origin, and would not believe unsubstantiated old wife's tales either.
Its cheap because of the dirt cheap labor cost and because they don't have many standards.
@samfisher5986: Sure, it is cheap to start with because the labour is cheaper. I would not call it dirt cheap though. Backpackers are not being paid much here. Just a rough estimate - around $20 an hour in China and around $28 in Australia. Maybe 40 or 50 years ago they were paid cup a rice a day but not now.
Standards are being more or less uniform all over the world as well.This particular price though - $1 is not a market price anyway. It is this store marketing strategy to lure clients. They give away stuff for free sometimes as well, does not mean that fruit value is $0.
@Musiclover: Not sure where you are getting your numbers…. a quick google shows a farm worker is getting about $4.12 AUD per hour in China on average, which means two things, a lot of people are getting less then that as well as it likely being that some of that money is misreported as being higher then it is. Thats with very poor conditions compared to Australia, even Australia's backpackers.
Vacuum pack garlic has been that cheap for the last few months up here at various places (eg; T-Bones, Yuen's, Blunder Rd etc).
Unfortunately much of the cheap stuff at Cabbage Patch (whenever I ever went there) is half rotted, only good to feed to livestock or compost. From the photo it looks like old remaining stock.
The store itself is a dirty, dingy little sh*thole. I'd go elsewhere.
@Price Jack
Agree on Cabbage Patch. It used to be quite good years ago with the previous Italian owners. Had a great deli.
Now with the new Indian owners it looks, feels and smells like a cheap shop in Delhi.
By any chance, have you found a good place to buy fresh seafood in the inner city / northside?I sometimes go to Aussie Seafood House at Strathpine, but the cheapest and best I've found (believe it or not) is with those small popup seafood vans that usually set up near petrol stations or random shops around the Moreton Bay region on weekends.
Best to get to them early, when they first set up though.
the color is brown already