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else used to eat raw rhubarb with sugar on, just bought a plant of bob the flower man xx

Raw tomato with sugar yes...rhubarb er no

yes when growing up in the 1950s

I agree - brought up the 50s. had it regularly. Now i like it in a crumble.

Oh yes can just taste it now.

Used to fill an egg cup with sugar. Go to the bottom of grand dads garden and just pull up a stick of rhubarb.

yuck yuck shudder, heave yuck

Yes, yes yes! Used to love it. x

was told it would give me tummy jip so didnt bother maybe thats cos dad wanted it all himself

probably dawn lol, can't stand it stewed looking forward to it growing now, never heard of the sugar on tomatoes though xx

My son [now 34] used to suck a dummy but one night going to bed it couldn't be found. In desperation I got some Rhubarb from the garden and he sucked that instead............I didn't put sugar on it though. He continued to suck rhubarb while it was in season and that was the end of the dummy

I grow up in the 70's and loved it still have the odd stick with sugar.

i love rhubarb and have been looking for root to grow it does not seem to be about

Christina we did just the same as kids. peas from the pods were my favourite. We also had blackberry bush and strawberrys. Mum made some great pies!

Yes, shudder to think of it now, made some rhubarb, wine once,well lets just say laxative tablets weren't needed after 3 glasses were drunk, don't trust blackberries after making wine out of them as when i strained the liquid off there was grubs left in with the fruit pulp, never made home amde wine again.

Sue

yep we did also. Love rhubarb raw or cooked.

Star

whats a little grub now and again when you have all the goodness going down with it.

Used to eat Rhubarb this way often, but not allowed the sugar anymore. If you do get a root to start, remember not to pull any the first year as it will not come good if you do. It will not grow in some soils but is really hardy in most. Ihave a garden now where it will not grow as the soil is too new to gardening, having been a field until 30 yrs ago. Jean

Mom and Dad had, and still have an enormous rhubarb area...... we have many a shortage of toilet paper due to the 'sugar in a cup, and rhubarb stick'

I have tried lifting a bit of their plant, to put in my garden but it has not worked........
cmd

ive just planted it now, haven't seen any for years ive also got some horseradish growing too for sauce , i alway split black berries to look for maggots well did, now i eat em and think of the extra vitamins from maggots too lol

I love rhubarb cooked
or raw ,
grew up having rhubarb and sugar
and still have it .
also like blueberries, blackcurrants , blackberries
like most fruit .
Hazelx