Do you like Rhubarb?

Rhubarb - This is a picture of a rhubarb plant.
@Nykkee (2522)
Canada
April 28, 2008 11:10am CST
I love rhubarb. I like it stewed and also in pies. It is a great vegetable.....or is it a fruit?.....I don't know.....anyway it's great because it grows really easily in even the poorest soil. I am planning to grow rhubarb in my garden this year so I can make pies and stewed rhubarb, I hope to grow enough to last me though the winter. I am tranplanting it from a friend's house because they don't like it so they told me I can take it. It seems like alot of people don't really like rhubarb or even see it as food. Maybe it's old-fashioned or something, I'm really not sure. Do you like rhubarb? How do you like your rhubarb prepared?
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@deeeky (3667)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
28 Apr 08
Rhubarb is absolutely great and a good sauce of fruit. My favourit is crumble and poured over with custard. Have a great day from deeeky.
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@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
29 Apr 08
Yum, that sounds good. I will ahve to make some of that this fall.
@elemental69 (1561)
• Ireland
28 Apr 08
I love rhubarb!!! I always buy it for rhubarb tarts, and especially rhubarb crumble. Yummy!! My husband loves it on its own with custard too!!! My aunt grow it and we plan to do the same this year....:-)
@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
29 Apr 08
Well aparently its super easy to grow and transplants really easily, because the friends that I am getting my plants from got thier because they don't like rhubarb and when someone gave them some, they threw it in thier back yard, the nexy year there were plants poppinh up everywhere.
• United States
28 Apr 08
Believe it or not, I used to eat it raw even though I was told it was poisonous raw. I never got sick from it, but it didn't taste very good. I think my friend got sick when he ate a whole lot of it. But, I really like it better when it is cooked and in a pie and will never eat it raw again.
@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
29 Apr 08
I used to eat it raw too. It's not poisonous raw, the leaves are poisonous, but no one eats them anyhow.
• Canada
29 Apr 08
My mom and dad have always loved rhubarb, but to be honest I've never tried it. When I was a kid, our neighbor used to grow it and would always give some to my parents. They would make pies or jam with it. I would never even give it a chance. Then they would try to trick my sister and I into eating it, by putting rhubard in the strawberry pie, but we saw right through that! I don't know why, but the thought of rhubarb kind of makes me sick...
@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
8 May 08
Well you should try it, it's good. The thought of cheesecake made my sister sick until she tried it, now she loves it.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
29 Apr 08
The only way I like rhubarb is fresh from the garden dunked in sugar. I have very fond memory of my childhood where a neighbor had always had a big garden and rhubarb was there on the edge, at a path all us kids used to go to each other's houses. We'd always grab a stalk as we were walking by, and would get a little dixie cup of sugar at whoever's house we ended up at. Mmmmm mmm ... It's toxic to horses though ...
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@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
8 May 08
Thanks for your respomse. I never thought to put sugar on raw rhubarb before.
@bigridge (36)
• United States
28 Apr 08
Rhubarb is fantastic. When it's stewed, I like it better than apple sauce. I like it straight in a pie but, it also really jazzes a strawberry pie up. Rhubarb is easy to grow and easy to transplant and makes a great border plant for any garden. The leaves of rhubarb are poisonous and certain tribes of Indians in the eastern U.S. used to use the leaves for that very purpose.
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@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
29 Apr 08
I like stewed rhubarb better than apple sauce too.
17 Sep 09
It was only about a year and a half ago that I discovered the wonders of rhubarb. As a child I rarely ate fruit, and even when I did it was generally strawberries with a dressing of sugar. Though in a bid to get healty I decided to eat more fruit and fruit based products, and this also kicked off a yoghurt addiction. A month or so into this new me, I discovered rhubarb flavoured yoghurts, and sampled a few different brands offering this flavour. It was simply delightful! Now it has become one of my favourite yoghurt flavours around, and I jump at the chance to eat it! I quite like rhubarb crumble too, but I find it can be a little too sugary sweet at times. I have yet to try rhubarb on its own, but I imagine that will be one of my next little challenges!