What the Heck is 'Elephant Garlic?' Oregon Knows.

According to the folks in North Plains, Oregon, fun stinks. It's the philosophy behind the town's signature event, the World's Largest Elephant Garlic Festival, which will be stinking up the place August 6 and 8.

Elephant garlic is so named because of its size. Its bulbs are as big as softballs, though elephant garlic tastes more like a leek than regular garlic. The tasty food is grown right in North Plains.

The three-day festival pays homage to the giant garlic by requiring vendors to have at least one menu item that features elephant garlic as an ingredient. You'll get a chance to imbibe garlic wine and garlic weizen beer and eat garlic ice cream, garlic Italian ice, garlic kettle corn, garlic biscuits and gravy, elephant garlic burgers and waffle fries with elephant garlic aioli.

The 13th annual festival kicks off with a parade and crowning of a "smelly king and queen," which doesn't sound like much of an honor. In typical fest fashion, there also will be live music, arts and crafts, children's activities and a car show.

The festival is free, though we recommend you go buy yourself some gum in case you get a chance to meet the smelly king and want to hit it off well.

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Hmmm is Elephant garlic stinkier than regular garlic? You can celebrate that at what must be the original Garlic Festival in Gilroy, CA--just celebrated recently. Now if North Plains had elephants AND garlic that would be something to see not to mention smell!! http://bit.ly/Quintess

Garlic is one of the most important vegetable spices used in cooking. The smell of garlic can satisfy your food cravings. But, I haven't seen any elephant garlic in our nearby market. I hope to see one for me to discover the difference of the taste.Tim from worldbiznews

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