I ve had quite a few but one of the most memorable was when I was in college and my roommate and I invited about a dozen friends for a spaghetti dinner. We used her mother s recipe for the sauce and when we served the guests, there were some unusual expressions as most grabbed for a drink after the first bite. That s when I learned that three cloves of garlic, finely chopped, does not equal three BULBS worth of chopped garlic cloves.