BRITS REACT | What I Found at a GARLIC FESTIVAL in the USA!! | BLIND REACTION

[@ms.bjsanders5816]

Rutabaga in the UK is called Swedes and Arugula in the UK is called rocket. A few of these terms I've learned because I watch Sorted Foods.

[@Footlngchilidog]

Apples go great with pork! If you’ve ever seen an old medieval painting of a whole cooked pig, it almost always has an apple in it’s mouth

[@AliKaiProject]

Normally it’s more of an apple sauce rather than actual slices. I’ve never tried it this way. 😀

[@jimmyb.6272]

Butterfinger is a brand of candy bar that has a thin layer of chocolate and peanut butter over a hard crunchy toffee that has an orange color to it.

[@rg20322]

It is absolutely a great candy but something you eat on occasion.

[@ConstantChaos1]

In America we had entire regions dedicated to growing certian crops, so having a festival associated with your regional harvest was normal, especially for harvests that needed to be processed, it was a way to get everyone involved with the process

[@gregweatherup9596]

From the title I was expecting it to be Gilroy, California, not Minnesota. 😳

[@raymonddevera2796]

Gilroy is also the garlic capital of the world.(China doesn't count)

[@scottroberts3705]

What they said about the camels is true, they are huge invasive species down under!!

[@AliKaiProject]

Really? 😯

[@DIDCOTTWIST]

There is a Garlic Festival in August each year in the UK on the Isle Of Wight 👍🏻

[@AliKaiProject]

Oh that’s good to know, might be a nice get away. :)

[@DIDCOTTWIST]

@AliKaiProject 16th - 17th August 2025 been going since 1983 apparently 👍🏻

[@AliKaiProject]

@@DIDCOTTWIST That's decent, a while off but gives us plenty of time. I haven't been to Isle of Wight in 10-20 years so it'd be a well over due visit. :)

[@RamblingRose08]

Different areas in the US specialize in certain crops. There are usually festivals for that crop once a year to celebrate it. They are community building and good for tourism. In California Gilroy is known for Garlic so there is a garlic festival. Monterey has Artichokes. My hometown has Lamb. Where i live now has Apples and Lavender. They are really fun festivals with a lot of good food and contests.

[@AliKaiProject]

For a minute I thought you were going to tell us that there was a lamb festival in your home town, we were ready to jump on a plane! :)

[@randallshelp4017]

"Pasty" is a meat pie... popular in middle US as miners would eat them for lunch 100+ years ago.. kinda British themed but more Polish and Scandinavian where I live. Love them. butter is essential.

[@AliKaiProject]

Sounds yummy! 😀

[@tcov22]

Butterfinger is a candy bar, chocolate covered flaky peanut butter center.

[@brianwalker5937]

Camels were brought to Australia in the 19th century to help build infrastructure in the outback. Many were set free when the job was done and others escaped. It seems, from what I just read because I too was skeptical, that Australia has one of the, in not the largest wild camel population in the world. While other nations have total camel populations most those camels are domesticated. Wild camels in Australia are invasive because they compete with native Australian wildlife for food and water. Camels can drink and store a lot of water, which can dry up watering holes leaving none for other animals. They are also carriers of diseases that threaten livestock. Hmmm. who woulda thunk it?

[@ThomasBeauchamp-m8m]

I live 45 minutes away from Gilroy, which is the garlic capital of California. There's an annual garlic festival there.

[@randallshelp4017]

Butterfinger is a candy bar

[@raheemwalker24]

Correct 😹

[@colleenmonfross4283]

I'm so surprised to see a Garlic Festival in Minnesota! I thought the only one was in Gilroy, California, which is famous for its garlic. The festival in Minnesota looks much better, though.

[@hardtackbeans9790]

I used to live in a tiny town with a 'Tick Festival'. You might as well get used to the oddity now & again. This I'm sure, is that garlic festival I have heard of in a very large garlic growing region. Which isn't odd at all. Nope, not the festival I was thinking of. LOL!! Only if Ali is from the Transylvanian region. Butterfinger is a candy bar. No garlic festival around me. That I know of.

[@jasonwhoever5528]

I always heard it was okay to take someone on a date to an Italian restaurant that served food with a lot of garlic because... Two garlics cancel out each other. At least that's what Rachael Rae says. ❤

[@pushpak]

David Letterman interviewing a woman who covered authentic Chinese food; Woman: Have you had the hump of a camel? Letterman: No, but in my younger days. 🤣

[@AliKaiProject]

Lol 😁

[@watsonvillian]

Their is only one garlic festival..in Gilroy. I appreciate these other states though keeping Garlic love alive lol.

[@Cody38Super]

We have festivals for EVERYTHING in America...all we need is half of an excuse and we'll make a festival out of it! Here in Houston we have a Strawberry festival and a Mosquito festival, if you get enough of them and the right sauce, Mosquitoes are pretty good. Remember....they're bigger in Texas. They give kids rides on them here!

[@AliKaiProject]

..a Mosquito festival?!

[@lindadeters8685]

Gilroy, CA is the garlic capital of the US. They have a garlic festival every year.

[@AliKaiProject]

Oh interesting! Is it bigger than this one?

[@patrickw123]

@@AliKaiProject Yes, the Gilroy Garlic Festival appears much larger but that also means much more crowded and, when I went, not much interaction between the vendors and the people buying their items. There were so many people that it was a lot of standing in long lines then finding a spot on the grass to sit and watch the music performances on the main stage.

[@edcampbell7484]

The garlic festival in Gilroy is fun. Gotta try the garlic ice cream….so good!

[@suecoleman9052]

The Gilroy Garlic Festival is no longer. It was officially cancelled in 2022.

[@AliKaiProject]

@@patrickw123 Ah that's a shame, I guess smaller scale things tend to be a little more personal and interactive.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Now you need to react to Pittsburgh's pickle fest. Pittsburgh is also known as picklesburgh.

[@AliKaiProject]

Sounds like a plan! :)

[@ESUSAMEX]

Australia has a lot of camels and the government allows people to hunt them because it is invasive to the native wildlife.

[@moe92870]

Gilroy CA is the garlic capitol of the U.S. And their festicval is pretty big. CA is California by the way. 🤔😉

[@AliKaiProject]

Awesome, how does it compare to this one?

[@MeanJohnDean]

Camel is a giant rat.