Rhubarb
#1
Rhubarb
Across the road, in the park, there was lots of rhubarb. I'd been watching it grow with a view to moving it from a public park to a private pie. Today I find that it's all been bashed flat. Not harvested, not gnawed, just flattened. No surrounding foliage has been damaged. This is a Sunday so I think it's the work of vigilantes rather than employees of a government agency.
I don't know any cradles to ask but those of you who do, are they scared of rhubarb? Do they have a cultural imperative to crush it, some sort of religious or primitive belief motivation? Is this perhaps the elusive feature that separates them from Americans?
I don't know any cradles to ask but those of you who do, are they scared of rhubarb? Do they have a cultural imperative to crush it, some sort of religious or primitive belief motivation? Is this perhaps the elusive feature that separates them from Americans?
#2
Re: Rhubarb
Weird.
According to the Rhubarb Compendium...
The Qianlong emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) forbids export of tea and rhubarb to the Russians after a border conflict in the north part of China.
In 1790 the same emperor declares that the Western countries will have to do without rhubarb.
In 1828 the Daoguang-emperor sends out an edict to the effect that no more tea and rhubarb must now be sold to the "barbarians."
Maybe there's a local holding a grudge?
According to the Rhubarb Compendium...
The Qianlong emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) forbids export of tea and rhubarb to the Russians after a border conflict in the north part of China.
In 1790 the same emperor declares that the Western countries will have to do without rhubarb.
In 1828 the Daoguang-emperor sends out an edict to the effect that no more tea and rhubarb must now be sold to the "barbarians."
Maybe there's a local holding a grudge?
#3
Re: Rhubarb
Weird.
According to the Rhubarb Compendium...
The Qianlong emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) forbids export of tea and rhubarb to the Russians after a border conflict in the north part of China.
In 1790 the same emperor declares that the Western countries will have to do without rhubarb.
In 1828 the Daoguang-emperor sends out an edict to the effect that no more tea and rhubarb must now be sold to the "barbarians."
Maybe there's a local holding a grudge?
According to the Rhubarb Compendium...
The Qianlong emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) forbids export of tea and rhubarb to the Russians after a border conflict in the north part of China.
In 1790 the same emperor declares that the Western countries will have to do without rhubarb.
In 1828 the Daoguang-emperor sends out an edict to the effect that no more tea and rhubarb must now be sold to the "barbarians."
Maybe there's a local holding a grudge?
#5
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Re: Rhubarb
I am scared of rhubarb. It reminds me of the triffids. It grows in special dark huts in yorkshire very quickly and its creepy.
#6
Re: Rhubarb
You'd love it if a real man went and tamed it and nailed it down and delivered it in pieces for you to bake in a pie with apples. Especially if he stuck around and advised on the baking process between gulps of his beer.
#8
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 1,986
Re: Rhubarb
I was at a meeting at work recently where someone provided a rather fine rhubarb crumble. It was well received by all, though I don't have the stats on how many of us were immigrants, spoke English nor lived near to the university. Should this be helpful I will inquire further. However, the crumble did not seem to make anyone feel claustrophobic.
#11
Re: Rhubarb
We've got lots of rhubarb - seems to grow well out here. My wife makes a great rhubarb and apple (or strawberry) pie.
#12
Re: Rhubarb
Rhubarb and strawberry pie is widely sold here but finding a pie involving rhubarb that's not sweetened to ruin is a challenge. Hence my eagerness to bring I2C the materials to make one.
#13
Re: Rhubarb
You could try cinnamon
Actually over the last few years I finally trained my wife to eschew cinnamon in the baking of pies.
But rhubarb grows like a weed here.
Actually over the last few years I finally trained my wife to eschew cinnamon in the baking of pies.
But rhubarb grows like a weed here.