Senior Citizens?

Question

Do you remember eating raw rhubarb and green apples and squeezIng the plastic packs of margarine with the red dot in the middle??? Two years ago I pulled up a piece of rhubarb and took a big bite and thought I would never be able to open my mouth again. How in the world did we do this stuff??

Answer 1

I understand. I use to eat lemons like they were going out of style and dill pickles too. Now, I take one bite and it takes my breath away... I don't understand it!

Answer 2

The rhubarb and green apples I remember but not the colored margarine. Think that may have been more around WWII or just after. I am and Eisenhower generation baby so some of the stuff I recall. The only way I'll have rhubarb now is with plenty of sugar added for a pie or strawberries and sugar for jam.

Answer 3

I do indeed remembering going out to our garden as a youngster & eating rhubarb right out of the garden. It was sour but I ate it anyway. As for green apples, I knew better than to eat those. We did have a red apple tree in our backyard but the apples were very small & not tasty. I don't recall the margarine packets you mentioned.

Answer 4

I love green apples, still do, actually I have a craving for "sour" things, and an aversion to anything really sweet.

Prefer spicy things to sweet as well. I wish I had a yard to grow some rhubarb again. I dont eat "ripe" fruit at all, I guess I'm weird or it was those green apples that got me started.

Answer 5

I too remember the green apples and crab apples, but I must say, I never took a bite of raw rhubarb!

I just made a rhubarb pie the other night, it was wonderful! For me, they mess it up with adding the berries.

Thanks for the memory of the crab apple trees in my Grandma's yard!

Answer 6

Oleo...that margarine packet with the DARK ORANGE dot in the middle, which was the dye that you then had to squeeze throughout the margarine (why it's in a plastic bag to begin with see?) in order to MAKE it look like butter instead of lard. Still tasted awful. But yes, that was MY JOB every Friday night (shopping day).

I still grow rhubarb along the back fence line that has been there since my Mom planted it when we moved into this house in 1955. I must admit that it has done nothing but grow and go to seed every year for about the past 15, as I am not about to waste my time picking it and peeling it and cutting it up, so that it can then spend 5 hours rendering down on top of the stove and thickening, in order to be put into jars and sealed and sit in storage in the basement for years because no one wants to eat it anyway. Then you have no sooner tossed it all out, when you daughter insists on buying strawberry/rhubarb jam from the store because she "missed" having her share of the stuff downstairs---which gets to sit in the fridge for months because she just isn't "in the mood" to eat it!

I remember eating it as a kid...always carried out a bit of sugar in an old yogurt container to dip it in. Also remember using it as a "gotcha" with unsuspecting new friends so that I could watch their faces screw up as they tasted it.

(Sorry about the style of writing...but my friend Sylvia D made me read her cousin Neville's blog page?--and I can't seem to get the way he talks out of my mind!)

Answer 7

yes, I remember the green apples and rhubarb adventures. somehow my Grand mother and Mother always seemed to know whenever I pulled these shenanigans and I paid for these misadventures but still continued doing them.

Answer 8

Rhubarb and apples do not grow too well in Florida, so nope.

Answer 9

My best friend and I would get a few green apples from the man across the street when he was not at home. Sometimes we got belly aches too. He probably knew we did it.

Answer 10

guess who's back,me, you know as a kid , i always liked june &crab apples, the june apples were last of may ,an the crab around sept-oct ,i planted one of each, now my taste has changed ,but i still got them sour crabapples trees ,well i'llget out here<>IS<>