What you are probably eating is the new Euro garlic which has no flavour or smell and has to conform to an approved nominal size. Once harvested this has then to be thrown into the Euro Beaujolais Noveau
wine lake. As neither product has any determinable qualities on the
taste front they can be seperated after several years and sold to an
unsuspecting public giving a vast profit to Bulgarian middlemen who
pass it off to British supermarkets. I saw some recently labelled as
pine kernels in balsamic vinegar - they tasted like peanuts in diesel - Jamie Oliver has lot to answer for!