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Garlic

Henry IV, part 1, III, 1:
HOTSPUR: I cannot choose: sometime he angers me With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant, Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, And of a dragon and a finless fish, A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven, A couching lion and a ramping cat, And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith. I tell you what; He held me last night at least nine hours In reckoning up the several devils' names That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,' But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious As a tired horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates and have him talk to me In any summer-house in Christendom.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV, 2:
BOTTOM: ... And, most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet comedy. No more words: away! go, away!

Measure for Measure, III, 2:
LUCIO: ...The duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on Fridays. He's not past it yet, and I say to thee, he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown bread and garlic: say that I said so. Farewell.

The Winter's Tale, IV, 4:
DORCAS: Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic, To mend her kissing with!

Coriolanus, IV, 6:
MENENIUS: You have made good work, You and your apron-men; you that stood so up much on the voice of occupation and The breath of garlic-eaters!

Ginger

Henry IV, part 1, II, 1:
SECOND CARRIER: I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.

Henry V, III, 7:
ORLEANS (obsequiously describing the Dauphin's horse): He's the color of nutmeg.
DAUPHIN: And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you may call beasts.

Love's Labour's Lost, V, 1:
COSTARD: An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread.

The Merchant of Venice, III, 1:
SALANIO: I would she [Rumor] were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped [chewed] ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband. But it is true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough to keep his name company!--

Twelfth Night, II, 3:
CLOWN: Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

Measure for Measure, IV, 3:
POMPEY: I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession: one would think it were Mistress Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not much in request, for the old women were all dead.

The Winter's Tale, IV, 3:
CLOWN: I cannot do't without counters. Let me see; what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will this sister of mine do with rice? But my father hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases; but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden pies; mace; dates?--none, that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of raisins o' the sun.