rhubarb tart

The Rhubarb Tart song

 

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I want another slice of rhubarb tart
I want another lovely slice
I'm not disparaging the blueberry pie
But rhubarb tart is oh-so-very nice
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart
A what-barb tart? A rhu-barb tart
I want another slice of rhubarb tart
The principles of modern philosophy
Were postulated by Descartes
Discarding everything he wasn't certain of
He said, "I think therefore I am rhubarb tart"
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart
Rene who? Rene Descartes
Poor mutt, he thought he was a rhubarb tart
Rhubarb tart has fascinated all the poets
Especially the Immortal Bard
He made Richard the Third call out at Bosworth Field
"My kingdom for a slice of rhubarb tart"
Immortal what? Immortal tart
Rhubarb what? A rhubarb Bard
As rhymes go that is really pretty bad
Since Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee
Laid down the axioms of abstract art
Even Jackson Pollock and Piet Mondrain
Prefer to paint a slice of rhubarb tart
Wassi who? A Wassi-ly
Kandin who? A Kandin-sky
And how he get in there for a start?
Read all the existentialist philosophers
Like Schopenhauer and Jea-Paul Sarte
Even Martin Heidegger agreed on one thing
Eternal happiness is rhubarb tart
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart
Jean-Paul who? Jean Paul Sarte
That sounds just like a rhyme from Lionel Barte
I want another slice of rhubarb tart
I want another lovely slice
I'm not disparaging the blueberry pie
But rhubarb tart is oh-so-very nice

John Cleese

mm, mm!! little baby rhubarbs are popping up, shiny pink and tart sweet announcing their arrival.

Oven steamed, according to Nigella and in Mrs Beetons shortcrust pastry and baked in the hot rayburn with a reduced glaze of the left over juices (plus a wee dram!!) oh so yum! delicate and fruity even on this, officially most depressing day of the year!

Update on Monday, January 29, 2007 at 09:37PM by green bean

well, another scoop for green-bean, because this week, the food program looked at rhubarb!

I've ordered some cream cheese from cothi valley goat's cheese, so next week will try a cheese cake too.

Listen again to "the foodprogram" about rhubarb. 

Comments

[sher]

Well, I can see how that would lift anyone's mood. Can I have some custard sauce with mine? :)

[andrea]

Mmmmmmmmm! Mine's with ice cream please!

[green bean]

'fraid it's all gone!! but the rhubarb's coming up all the time so it won't be long 'til another "tarten riwbob" (http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/europe/welsh/rhubarb-tart.html)

mmm.. rhubarb and custard, now there's a divine combination!

And what is it with R&C and the funnies?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw4wnys1IMk&mode=related&search=

My friend, Toby, and I used to buy the boiled sweet version, eating them on the way back to school during lunch hour at school. For want of tooth rotting material, we discovered one day that you could actually disolve them in bottles of cherryade!

[andrea]

Ooh I love those rhubarb and custard sweets - and the cartoon. Do you have a Flickr account? The badge that you have here on your blog isn't your account, is it? (How Welsh was that question, isn't it?)

[green bean]

i do.. its green-bean, http://flickr.com/photos/81625326@N00/
in my buddies pics, there's loads of last years shenanigins..

the badge uses all pics on flickr with the tag "big green gathering". I should change it really to something more seasonal!