Ain't life strange?

Just constructing the rhubarb pie/crumble and it struck me; rhubarb is a vegetable and yet we treat it and eat it like a fruit, and tomatoes are fruits and we eat them like veggies?

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Strange - but true .....

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Wow ! What would Einstein have made of that- lol.

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we also put carrot parsnip and beetroot in cakes and pine apple with pork.
Apple and grapes with cheese. Some times chalk and cheese work....

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I didn't know rhubarb was a vegetable! I don't like the taste of fruit with savoury so rhubarb would have been ignored most likely; what a waste that would have been!

That's brought back some happy memories of my friends and I sitting in the garden, having picked some rhubarb and my mom giving us bowls of sugar to dip it in then munching our heads off

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Karen, just the thought of eating it raw

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It's lovely dipped in sugar (after peeling off the outer layer) - just the thing for kids, lots of face pulling and little squeals my mother was a chef so unless it was poisonous, we had to eat it at some point or another!

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We're also strange with what we won't associate with: my Dad used to grow white strawberried http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...rry-snow-white which I could eat (for some reason, I have an allergy to the red ones) and, for me, taste much much nicer and yet you don't see them in the shops - probably because they're not red!

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oh dear, I feel quite dumb now, I never knew rhubarb was a veg either

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Join the club gal .....Oh - you have