Just buy garlic, in its papery coat, through which you can feel whether the cloves are nice and firm, and which you can sniff to find out whether it's fresh enough for you. Why buy garlic in a squeezy tube when you know that it's been severely processed? A big, fat bulb of garlic for 60p yields enough cloves to throw unpeeled into your Mediterranean potatoes along with fresh rosemary and extra virgin olive oil so that, half an hour later, you can suck the beautiful sweet middle out once you've bitten the end off the clove. You can't do that with garlic mush in a tube. Still, it's a free country.