Oh Boy! I Have Strawberries and Rhubarb! You Know What I Can Do?!?!?!?

[ProudLib72]

Throw away the rhubarb and eat the strawberries!












Full disclosure, I do like strawberry/rhubarb pie and jam. I'm just being silly.

[elleng]

1. PIE!!!

[shenmue]

9. I like pie

[Phoenix61]

2. It should be illegal to contaminate

wonderful strawberries with disgusting rhubarb.

[leftieNanner]

3. It's like the meme about cooking your kale in coconut oil

Because it makes it so much easier to scrape the kale into the garbage afterwards.

Ba-dum-tsss.

[Leghorn21]

4. ...make a quick run to Dairy Queen?

[at140]

5. Make a dash to Baker's Square!!!

best damn pies there! Donate your rhubarb to them and eat the strawberry's with half &half creamer and a pinch of sugar.

[LakeArenal]

6. Ever try strawberries dipped in sour cream

And rolled in brown sugar?

[Marie Marie]

7. I'll take the Rhubarb...

it makes the best pies.

[ProudLib72]

8. The first time I ever had strawberry rhubarb pie was in college

A friend's roommate figured out that the enormous weed-looking thing in the back yard was actually rhubarb, and she wanted to try it out. I liked it but no one else did.

There is a creole restaurant in town that makes their own strawberry rhubarb preserves. Whenever I go, I take massive helpings of it.

[Marie Marie]

10. I prefer just Rhubarb in my pies.

I like strawberries and eat them often but I LOVE rhubarb and don't think that it needs anything else to change the taste. I load my pies with an overabundance of this delicious and unique fruit (?) Is it actually a fruit?

[ProudLib72]

11. Rhubarb is not a fruit

Rhubarb is a perennial plant that has stalks similar to celery. Rhubarb is a vegetable, but it is often prepared or combined with fruit for desserts. Rhubarb can be eaten raw, but because of its tart flavor, it is more often cooked and sweetened with sugar. It is called the “pie plant” because one of its most popular uses is as pie filling. The leaves of rhubarb should never be eaten, as the leaves and roots contain a toxic poison called oxalic acid. https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/rhubarb_fruit_or_vegetable

[Marie Marie]

15. Thanks for the info. For one of my favorite foods, I should have known that but didn't.

[smirkymonkey]

21. I also prefer just plain rhubarb.

It's my favorite pie. I'm not even a big pie fan, but I'll take rhubarb pie any day. I also love to make rhubarb sauce and just eat it plain like applesauce or over ice cream. Or rhubarb crisp. Or anything with rhubarb in it!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. PIE!!!

[NotASurfer]

13. I'm just happy it didn't turn into some "Fifty Shades of Pie" fetish

Although that sounds like a title to an episode of Baskets, come to think of it

[ProudLib72]

14. American Pie?!?!?

No, I didn't even think of that.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. ". . .you never forget your first piece. . ."

[ProudLib72]

17. ...

[rurallib]

18. throw me the raw rhubarb - I love it raw

[ProudLib72]

19. You should have seen the plant in my college friend's back yard!

It was three feet tall and at least as big across. It was a small tree! You could have eaten for a week on all that rhubarb!

On the other hand, I discovered some rhubarb growing in the backyard of the last house I owned. The plants were so tiny they were easily mistaken for weeds just sprouting. Poor little rhubarbs. I only found them after living there for an entire year!

[rurallib]

20. My MIL had a couple of huge plants in her yard

but she is gone now. She kept me well supplied. She was very happy that anyone would take it.