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Lifestyle · Explainer

What is rhubarb, and why does Pop have so much of it?

Everything you need to know about the vegetable that thinks it's a fruit.

By Pop's grandsonSenior Pop Correspondent

Rhubarb.
Rhubarb. Photo: public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Rhubarb is a vegetable that is used like a fruit. It grows behind Pop's shed in a patch that was there when he bought the house and that he has never once managed to make smaller.

Pop gives it away by the armful from June to August. Neighbours have started to avoid the shed.

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