• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

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        6 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.

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          6 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

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            6 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

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      6 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.

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        6 months ago

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

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      6 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)

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      6 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.

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      6 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.

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        6 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.