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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

We have guava in the stores here in Florida but I've seen rhubarb twice in half a century.

[-] berryjam@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've seen rhubarb in the Midwest fwiw

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I think it grows in colder places and isn't popular enough to get imported here, I can get so many fruits that are exotic elsewhere, but apples and potatoes are expensive here, and rhubarb I just never see.

[-] berryjam@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm biased towards tropical fruits so I think you have the better end of the deal. I actually thought rhubarb was a herb of some kind, learned that it was a fruit after your comment

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's a fruit?! I thought you used the stalk, which looks somewhat like celery in shape. /a Midwesterner who has eaten rhubarb pies made/grown by a great aunt

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Botanically it isn't a fruit but it is a culinary fruit because of how it is used.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Funny, I'm in NJ, and within the past month I've seen guava and rhubarb for the first time ever on the shelves. Haven't gotten rhubarb yet, I really don't know anything about it.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Don't. It's evil. Even though you might like it, it's not worth the risk.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Holy cow, I hate rhubarb. We always had it in the garden and my grandma used to bake cakes with it. Thos sweet cakes would be sooo good, but that pos plant always ruined them to non-edible garbage. At least for me, some people like that taste, though. (Europe)

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I was born, raised, and currently live in Florida. The guavas in Florida supermarkets are closer-tasting to plastic than the guavas I've had in the Caribbean.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I have only used them sort of unripe, for compote with so much sugar. But they do grow here.

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I have a 6 foot by 6 foot patch of rhubarb in Wisconsin that's completely gone to seed because I don't have enough freezer space to keep any more of it. It makes a great simple syrup for cocktails and of course classics like crumble and pie.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When I was a kid, we had a patch of it in the back yard and mom would make desserts out of it. Or wed just eat it raw.

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