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Hello everybody yes my brother and i use to go and pick rhubarb from fathers garden and dip in sugar,
also lettuce, strawberry's and cocoa with sugar this was in the late forties - fifties use to think it was lovely.
don't think i could eat lettuce with sugar now though.
Cocoa was messy end up with brown sticky fingers and choc round your mouth,
No wonder I'm a big girl all that sugar ha ha.
Regards to you all Gwen. UK

hello good night lol im fine jean and caz tablets working well i fly at night lol
hope your both well and your all well to its poo being ill xxx

Hello Puss love, i dont like rhubarb lol!!

How are you hun?

Caz xxx

yes i did also like strawberrie with black pepper on

Me amd my siblings always ate rhubarb with sugar, in the early Fifties sweets were rationed so this was a treat!

I also loved Goosegogs (berries) blackcurrants etc.straight out of the garden....and was forever picking 'food' from the hedgerows on the way back from school! ...just rubbed them on my sleeve lol...I never suffered a thing :O)

Like Tina I never eat it with sugar,my grandfather grew a lovely "strawberry rhubarb" I also loved gooseberries straight off the bush.

Sheila

I used to eat it WITHOUT sugar - but then I used to eat lemons like oranges!! Could not do it now, even as I write this my stomach is churning lol

Hope you have success with your rhubarb plant, I managed to kill mine off!! pmsl

Tina x

oops I must change my name back forgot I had it on whoosed - silly me! 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

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

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

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

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

yep we did also. Love rhubarb raw or cooked.

Star

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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