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July 22, 2012 4:31 pm at 4:31 pm #886494
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Because babies taste better with garlic and sugar.

But seriously, from what I have heard, it is only a minhag. I believe there are those who say the garlic is a segula for fertility and the sugar shows that the mitzvos are sweet, but I don’t have a source for that.