Did You Know?
The Guinness World Record Holder for the longest continuous string of garlic in the world.....
is not in GILROY.....
is not in Saugerties.....
is not on the Isle of Wight.....
but is in a small village in England called Catsfield.

Thats right, Peter Josling who runs The Garlic Information Centre and owns the retail and mail order chain Garlic Galore! is the former WORLD record holder with a string that stretched 123ft or 36.5 metres.

"We put it together in 1996 and used around 1600 garlic bulbs and fortunately we smashed the previous world record by a long long way"

Once the record had been validated by the local major and Guinnes Officials rather than celebrate with champagne Peter said "we treated ourselves to lots of garlic and honey ice cream, followed by a really garlicky meal". The bulbs were raffled off and all the funds went to The British Diabetic Association Research Fund.

World Record Holder