"Swedish prosecutors have issued international arrest warrants for two Britons suspected of masterminding a smuggling ring involving Chinese garlic." [AP]

  • showme

    I wonder how they sniffed that one out…

  • Toffer99

    So which London embassy are they going to make a run for to seek asylum? My money’s on Chile.

    • duckwizard

      Stop, you’re making me Hungary!

      • Felton / Moderator

        Have some Turkey.

        • Antinous / Moderator

          Should we eat off the good China?

          • Ashen Victor

            Just no spicy food, it is a Spain in the ass.

          • chgoliz

            Can we catch these guys?  Uzebekistan!

          • Antinous / Moderator

            But what if I don’t Vanuatu?

          • duckwizard

            @Antinous_Moderator:disqus Gotta admit, you Laos me there with that one.

  • Wreckrob8

    Garlic is evil. The Brits are innocent.

  • dnebdal

    In Norway, this was seen as utterly bizarre news – who would smuggle anything out of Norway?

    (It makes sense with the EU border rules and such … but still.)

  • Gunker

    And in Ireland a man is sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for smuggling garlic, which is more than the time you get for assault, all because our benevolent EU overloads want to protect Italian growers.

    • Martijn

      I thought it was to protect the interests of secret vampire overlords or something.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dave.maclachlan.3 Dave MacLachlan

    Something about this whole thing just stinks.

  • http://profiles.google.com/steve.nordquist Steve Nordquist

    White people problems: Native fish-cheese scent insufficient; need to motor-barge import garlic from antipodes, dodge duties and trade compliance to spice it up. Surely a- smuggling conspiracy rather than exim duty fraud conspiracy is a poor descriptor, and b- we want the (Swedish-Audio) video of the Chinese Farmers so up in teh ginger that the garlic’s just to mellow it out (also to sell gonzo output to an otherwise homogeneous market.)

  • BillStewart2012

    Has Swedish cooking gotten enough less bland that you can make money smuggling garlic?  It’s not something you’d put in the lutefisk or the meatballs.  They do really good coffee and pretty good pastries there, but it’s hardly the country you’d think would have a huge market for garlic.