Is rhubarb really that good?

Posted by: Chillkram on 24 March 2008

Or is it completely overrated? After many years in the wilderness, rhubarb seems to be making a comeback. The thing is I think it would have been better if it had stayed as a distant memory. Not everything from the past is necessarily better and rhubarb definitely isn't in my opinion - it conjurs up thoughts of school dinners and lumpy custard. Do you agree with me and are there other things from the past that would be better resurrected (how's that for topical at Easter?!!) or is rhubarb the fruit (?!!) of the moment?

And whatever happened to white dog poo?

Mark
Posted on: 24 March 2008 by JWM
Is rhubarb really that good?

Yes.
Posted on: 24 March 2008 by BigH47
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And whatever happened to white dog poo?


Not in the lumpy custard then?


Rhubarb crumble and Cornish vanilla ice cream mmmmm!
Posted on: 24 March 2008 by ewemon
Used to eat it raw. The best way to eat it is to dip the end that you are biting into sugar.
Posted on: 24 March 2008 by u5227470736789439
Two wonderfu,l neglected, ffuits: Rhubarb, and Gooseberies.

George

PS: Add plenty of suger ...
Posted on: 24 March 2008 by Jim Lawson
What BigH47 said. Unbelievably good!
Posted on: 24 March 2008 by u5227470736789439
I make real diary ice cream.

I caanot imagine any nicer conbination than with strawberries in Wimbledon fortnight!

George
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by tonym
Rhubarb's one of those things you either love or hate.

I LOVE it! Rhubarb Crumble's very fine. Dead easy to grow Rhubarb too!

I confess I didn't realise it'd ever fallen out of fashion.
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by Bob McC
rhubarb holds a special place in the canon of food stuffs to be avoided for me, along with brains, hearts, bread and butter pudding, bananas and aubergines.
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by GML
Everything you need to know about forcing rhubarb was covered in this thread.

The days of 'Berlin Fritz' seem an age ago now.
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by csl
no better way to ruin a strawberry than to pair it with rhubarb.
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by Guido Fawkes
I preferred Custard the pink cat, but Roobarb was OK
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by BigH47
Rhubarb also cleans ali saucepans really well too. Not sure what it does to your insides therefore?
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by Chillkram
For me rhubarb should have been left firmly in the past along with blancmange, coffee with chicory, Vesta curries, soggy vegetables, Smash potato, Bird's Angel Delight, power cuts (could make a comeback actually!), brown cars, vinyl wallpaper, liebfraumilch, Waltham music centres and footballers with perms.

Mark
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by 555
Rhubarb in a well made tart or crumble - oh yes!
Gooseberries & Blackcurrants are also types of overlooked & brilliant fruit!

Best of all when home grown IMHO, which we do at 555 acres along with other fruit & veg'.
It involves some hard work, but I find I have no sense of guilt relaxing in a listening session after some work in the greenhouse/garden. Smile
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by u5227470736789439
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Originally posted by BigH47:
Rhubarb also cleans ali saucepans really well too. Not sure what it does to your insides therefore?


Deposits the ali removed from the pan? Wherefore art thou, Alzheimers?

I love it though!

Stewed rhubarb? Homer S- voice, "Ummmm!"

George
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by Chillkram:
For me rhubarb should have been left firmly in the past along with blancmange, coffee with chicory, Vesta curries, soggy vegetables, Smash potato, Bird's Angel Delight, power cuts (could make a comeback actually!), brown cars, vinyl wallpaper, liebfraumilch, Waltham music centres and footballers with perms.

Mark


Spoil sport. I look forward to seeing you at 10pm in Grumpy Old Men Big Grin
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by Chillkram
quote:
Originally posted by JWM:
Spoil sport. I look forward to seeing you at 10pm in Grumpy Old Men Big Grin


Ah, bring back 'the grumpy old men whinging thread!'
Posted on: 25 March 2008 by Whizzkid
Ah! fruits of my childhood and all of them I still love,


Rhubarb, Loganberries, Goosegogs, Prunes all with custard, crumble or dairy ice cream, Luvvly jubbly.



Dean..
Posted on: 26 March 2008 by Bob McC
Why do people persisit with calling rhubarb a fruit?
It isn't it is an ugly weed that someone discovered had a semi edible stalk and a deadly poisonous leaf.
Posted on: 26 March 2008 by Chumpy
A bit of rhubarb in crumble now and then is fine, but it is a shame to see all of thes gullibles buying all of the overpriced Blueberry/Squash etc guff/cycling all over the pavements in overpriced daps.

Next thing we shall be buying £3000 + PSU to stick somewhere.
Posted on: 26 March 2008 by BigH47
The genus is in the family Polygonaceae, and includes the vegetable rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum or Rheum x hybridum.)

Now you know.
Posted on: 26 March 2008 by tonym
I know a very rude poem about rhubarb!
Posted on: 26 March 2008 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
Why do people persisit with calling rhubarb a fruit?
It isn't it is an ugly weed that someone discovered had a semi edible stalk and a deadly poisonous leaf.


I s'pose people will stop calling rhubarb a fruit at the same time that they stop calling tomato a vegetable.
Posted on: 26 March 2008 by 555
quote:
Originally posted by tonym:
I know a very rude poem about rhubarb!


We want to hear it, you want to tell us; go on Tony!
Posted on: 26 March 2008 by tonym
No! I couldn't! Roll Eyes