I have raw rhubarb in my fridge.
Posted by Carrie on 19 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Food and drink, Polls
Loading …Really, though, it’s good. I like it dipped in salt, like my mom taught me to eat it. I don’t believe I’ve ever managed to make a convert, though, and it’s possible that my family is the only family to eat it like this in the history of the universe.
More for me!
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It’s my Achilles heel.
on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:32 pm
Erin said …
Having never lived in a climate cold enough to grow them, I’ve never had rhubarb — raw or otherwise. I may have seen it in a pie, but I’m not sure! However, this Southern girl likes raw potato and puts salt on her apples, watermelon, tomatoes, canteloupe, and honey dew, so I say do what you want!
on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:34 pm
alli said …
I’ve only had it in pie.
on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:42 pm
Carrie said …
“Tart” doesn’t really begin to describe raw rhubarb, and it’s bitter, too. But…yummy bitter! Does that make sense?
Eric hates it.
on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:49 pm
Miz Robyn said …
I’ve never had raw rhubarb, but my daughter had some when she was little, given to her by a neighbor. She called it “rhubub”, though, since they (with thick Maine accents) called it that. She loved it, but I’ve never tried it, except in strawberry-rhubarb jam.
on 19 Feb 2008 at 9:10 pm
hannah said …
never had raw rhubarb.
My grandparents and great grands grew it all the time in their gardens.
Big plants (the leaves of which are poisonous, fyi).
I’ve only had rhubarb in strawberry rhubarb pie.
on 20 Feb 2008 at 7:33 am
Andrea_R said …
Ugh, it grows everwhere here.
I made rhubarb juice once, which was okay. Then there’s rhubarb & strawberry pie, rhubarb jam, rhubarb yogurt upsied down cake… and probably rhubard pickles.
on 20 Feb 2008 at 8:53 am
jay said …
The theory is sound - salt should cut through the bitter and enhance the sweet. I’ll have to try it, but it doesn’t sound very good!
I remember we used to find it growing in my playschool yard and experiment with eating it. It was never as valued a commodity as puddle water, though, which was fiercely contested!
on 20 Feb 2008 at 10:46 am
Carol said …
Houseful of rhubarb fans here! You should have seen how upset Drew was when he discovered some animal ate our rhubarb plant last summer
Never dipped it in salt — sugar here and it kind of makes my mouth numb but in a plesant way. Drew prefers to cook it down with sugar and water into a rhubarb mush and put it on everything (or just a spoon - which is how the boys eat it).
on 23 Feb 2008 at 9:15 pm
Dana said …
Well, you are not alone with the rhubarb and salt thing. My great-aunt used to grow it and my mom and I would pick it fresh from her yard. And yes, my Mother also taught me to eat it with salt. It’s actually the only way I have ever had it.
So , umm, Hi Fellow Freaky Rhubarb Eater! ‘Tis delicious though!