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Could someone explain the joke to me? I guess somewhere the skin of garlic is called paper? Or is there another play on words?
The only thing I've found on the garlic Wikipedia is the description of its skin as papery but that's it...
I think the skin is the paper, the work is peeling it off... So it's lots of paper work.
If you ask me onions are way worse, it's bad enough to make me cry.
Hmm, maybe the info you're missing is that "paperwork" is a concrete thing?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paperwork
Like, that's the whole joke, that the skin is papery and its removal is tedious, so you could also refer to the removal as "paperwork".
Oh I'm aware of paper but didn't associate papery things with ... Well paper itself I guess that's the flaw. I wouldn't describe a tree as having a wooden expression either!