Garlic festival highlights growers -- and eaters
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Irene Bender, dressed as a garlic bulb, entertains the crowd gathered for the Minnesota Garlic Festival Saturday. Bender, who is from Dassel, Minn., was part of the original committee that started the festival nine years ago.
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The Minnesota Garlic Festival description is as the "premier event for lovers of garlic," and there was garlic everywhere -- being eaten, worn and judged. Saturday in Hutchinson at the McLeod County Fairgrounds, brave souls even sampled the garlic ice cream.
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