Know what this is?

Apparently, this is what garlic looks like right after it is pulled out of the garden. Who would have known? (Other than my mother-in-law and pretty much every other human on earth?)

I was at the market, and asked the dude if they had any garlic. He pointed to a big box with all these tall shoots sticking out, a box that I had already investigated, and which, despite its large label clearly stating this was garlic, I couldn't make heads or tails of.

"Ummm ... I don't really know what to do with those," I told him.

"The bulbs are at the bottom," he politely informed me, though I think I detected a hint of 'you moron' in his tone.

I went back to the box, and pulled one out. Well, son of a gun. There is a bulb of garlic at the bottom!

Geez, the things you learn when you stop eating Kraft Dinner every night for supper.