This is how overflowing sewers gave rhubarb to Scotland

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  • Опубликовано: 23 окт 2024

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  • @spork6264
    @spork6264 Год назад +16419

    Even if he was only doing it to fuel his rhubarb addiction he still did a amazing thing for the people of his city and I can respect that

    • @ArtGirl82
      @ArtGirl82 Год назад +962

      It's still pretty on brand for the rich back then to only do seemingly altruistic things for poor people, because there's an overwhelming benefit for themselves. If he didn't like rhubarb, Edinburgh would've more than likely continued to be a cesspit of disease and unpleasantness.

    • @ammoiscurrency5706
      @ammoiscurrency5706 Год назад +246

      Greed can be good

    • @lucassevey5989
      @lucassevey5989 Год назад +252

      Win win situation

    • @jamesbizs
      @jamesbizs Год назад +390

      @@ArtGirl82you say that like a bad thing. We have so many things today, because rich people did things for themselves. Without that, no one would have ever bothered, and the things would never have been created for non rich people.

    • @Constance_tinople
      @Constance_tinople Год назад

      @@jamesbizsthat’s a bullshit lie propagated by capitalism to justify the oppression of the working class and the hoarding of wealth. The truth is much of the wealthy don’t invent shit yet profit greatly off of the labor of scientists and engineers trying to make the world better. Yet the billionaire class happily destroys said world, and exploits billions to keep their pockets fat

  • @JustJessee
    @JustJessee Год назад +5050

    The art frame is SO awesome for these.

  • @lizxu322
    @lizxu322 Год назад +65

    Addictions that help others is the best

  • @PsychoEkan
    @PsychoEkan Год назад +258

    Interesting facts about Rhubarb. The Rhubarb roots contains a laxative which unusually for herbal medicine is very consistent in its concentration. This laxative was quite popular with nobles in yee olden England.

    • @HappyMSI1
      @HappyMSI1 9 месяцев назад

      So the rhubarb growing on fecal matter and produce laxative so people produce more fecal matter ... I now perceive this plant as an intelligent symbiotic living being.

    • @Witchy-Wonderland
      @Witchy-Wonderland 9 месяцев назад +17

      Another fun fact: _RHAPHANIDOSIS_ ✨ The torturous act of inserting the *root of the rhubarb up the ANUS* 🫠

    • @Juan_7_7_7
      @Juan_7_7_7 8 месяцев назад +19

      ​@@Witchy-Wonderlandthats not fun

    • @2amichaelj
      @2amichaelj 8 месяцев назад +15

      Ah... the cycle continues then.

    • @MrChazz10
      @MrChazz10 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@witchy-wonderland1416 is that supposed to cure something or induce something? 😅

  • @bobjohnson7020
    @bobjohnson7020 Год назад +6891

    I just realized our rhubarb patch grows over our septic tank.

    • @shadynail4723
      @shadynail4723 Год назад +450

      Coincidence? I think not!

    • @heidimisfeldt5685
      @heidimisfeldt5685 Год назад +30

      😊❤

    • @agridulce3532
      @agridulce3532 Год назад +20

      😢

    • @likemau5552
      @likemau5552 Год назад +225

      You propably should do a inspection, you know, just to be safe (city politics on pollution)

    • @mjrussell414
      @mjrussell414 Год назад +92

      @@anondimwitYes, but the tank itself shouldn’t be leaking effluent.

  • @integratedhatespreader
    @integratedhatespreader Год назад +2761

    The sewer system and indoor plumbing is one of the greatest human inventions that is often taken for granted.

    • @ricksmith9256
      @ricksmith9256 10 месяцев назад +62

      The only bad thing is that modern waste management is a giant waste of water and fertilizer! More people should use dry composting toilets, as long as you aren't squeamish it's a great resource for gardeners.

    • @Stephen-uz8dm
      @Stephen-uz8dm 10 месяцев назад +109

      ​@@ricksmith9256it's not good fertilizer because of the crazy unnatural things in most food now + the medication

    • @jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798
      @jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798 10 месяцев назад +41

      Not taken for granted.
      I like to claim that my toilet is my most prized possession!..
      What else would I miss more if it was gone!

    • @mortenfrosthansen84
      @mortenfrosthansen84 10 месяцев назад +2

      Which would never have happened, if people didn't know about pneumatics, which then goes back to physical engineering, then back to steam, then to fire..

    • @mortenfrosthansen84
      @mortenfrosthansen84 10 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@ricksmith9256you don't think, that waste wasn't wasted in that time?
      They literally threw it in the river or on the ground..

  • @unikkorns
    @unikkorns Год назад +1233

    The restaurant Rhubarb was one of the best meals I've ever had in my life. And they had us sit in the rooms to enjoy drinks before and after the meal. It was a wonderful experience. Plus there's a cat that hangs out and the staff wear kilts.

    • @laqueenawilliams4762
      @laqueenawilliams4762 Год назад +19

      Did it taste like poop?

    • @unikkorns
      @unikkorns Год назад

      @@laqueenawilliams4762 Maybe you enjoy eating shit, but no, it was pretty good.

    • @TheNewRobotMaster
      @TheNewRobotMaster Год назад +48

      Did you notice how the bathroom drains directly into the fields?

    • @4m4n40
      @4m4n40 Год назад +30

      Apparently people who used to wear kilts didn’t wear anything underneath, they even had stools with an imprint where you can lay your crown jewels and drink the ale, or whatever.

    • @baranjan6969
      @baranjan6969 Год назад +17

      Cat.

  • @darrens3
    @darrens3 Год назад +316

    If you want to see the medieval streets. They're still there in Edinburgh in Mary Kings Close. Basically the road starts off at 2 stoerys at one end and 14 storey's at the other. Facing the river. They filled in the river and built a trainstation. But in remodelling the city centre they just knocked those old streets level on top and just built the modern streets on top of them. So the old doors and windows are still down there with the sloping street dissapearing into the underside of the vaults that hold up the buildings and streets above, and you can get tours of it. It's amazing. Highly recommend it!

    • @LobyDobster
      @LobyDobster 9 месяцев назад +3

      Highly recommended! I visited it last summer and learned a lot!

    • @PavltheRobot
      @PavltheRobot 9 месяцев назад +11

      Damn I'm too tired, I started reading your comment as "If you want to see the medieval shits they're still there in Edinburgh"

    • @daliggy4503
      @daliggy4503 9 месяцев назад +8

      If you want to see what it really looked and smelled like go to San Francisco

    • @meredithwatterson6471
      @meredithwatterson6471 8 месяцев назад +3

      That sounds like Seattle, same thing. Older section just built over and closed off. The doors, windows and stores are still down there. Just like Edinburgh, you can take tours of underground Seattle. It's seriously cool.
      So now it looks like I'm going to head to Edinburgh!

    • @museli_addict
      @museli_addict 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@PavltheRobotEqually valid statement

  • @susanroberts3063
    @susanroberts3063 Год назад +85

    Our family has always had rhubarb in our garden. If you've never tasted rhubarb pie, you have no idea what you ate missing !!! The large leaves are inedible, however the ruby colored stalks are the gem of the plant. Cut into one inch pieces and mixed with sugar makes great rhubarb sauce or mix with tapioca and sugar then place in a pie for my favorite pie of all-time !!!!!

  • @secondchairmusic
    @secondchairmusic Год назад +39

    The editing in these shorts are spectacular. From the graphics, to the comedic timing, everything!!! I’m definitely saving this as a model for my own editing. 👏👏👏👏

    • @The-J
      @The-J 10 месяцев назад +2

      Very Monty Pythonesque

    • @nofurtherwest3474
      @nofurtherwest3474 9 месяцев назад +1

      What kind of content are you doing?

  • @XSR_RUGGER
    @XSR_RUGGER Год назад +451

    We used to munch on rhubarb as kids at my grandparents farm. They said they planted it once and it just kept coming back. After running around the farm during the summers in Michigan it was refreshing to have some of the juicy sour stem to quench a bit of the thirst since we were far away from the hose for a drink.

    • @gonelucid
      @gonelucid 9 месяцев назад +9

      I thought it was bitter! Crap.. it grew wild all over north dakota when I lived there.. if I knew it was sour I would've been all over it..

    • @XSR_RUGGER
      @XSR_RUGGER 9 месяцев назад +18

      @@gonelucid I didn't find it bitter. We were warned to not eat anything but the stalks but we could eat as much as we wanted 😆. My mother hates it, but my grandmother makes strawberry rhubarb pie every once in a while and I think it's delicious.

    • @deamado8947
      @deamado8947 9 месяцев назад +18

      We dipped the raw cut stems in granulated sugar, like strawberries when I was a kid in the 70s. It grew in the backyards of my relatives in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, USA. We are Scotch/Irish-Americans. We also liked black and red currents, plums, most berries, apples, and citrus products. Most of the families had hoards of homemade jams in their root cellars. Strawberry rhubarb jam was one of the top favorites for afternoon teas or after dinner cakes.

    • @Rumade
      @Rumade 9 месяцев назад +12

      It's a perennial, so yes, you plant the crown once and it will produce for years to come. It dies back to the root for winter and then springs back up in spring!

    • @XSR_RUGGER
      @XSR_RUGGER 9 месяцев назад +17

      @@deamado8947 my grandmother does the same to this day. She makes jams and jellies, she makes home made apple sauce. She has a very large garden. We had raspberry and crab apple fights and we probably robbed more fruit than the birds 😆. They always produced more than they needed and would pile up cucumbers by the road and put a sign out that said "Free" on them and the rhubarb. Neighbors would frequently come over and cut it along with the asparagus. I would often say as a kid,
      " Grandma, there's someone in your garden taking things."
      She'd tell me,
      "Oh, that's so and so, they're just getting some extra tomatoes we have."
      Unfortunately my grandfather passed away a couple years ago so she's had to downsize the garden but her way to unwind is to till the garden. It's also unfortunate that when my grandmother passes their property is going to be rezoned and the farm will no longer be able to have animals considered livestock, of which they usually kept a few cows and fowl and much more when my mother was a child.
      Sorry for the long post, I love that place and miss it terribly.

  • @deepwoodguy2
    @deepwoodguy2 Год назад +697

    My Grfather had a rhubarb plant at his house in 1905...my Dad moved the plant to his house in 1946...my Dad moved in 1980 and brought the plant with him...I sold the house in 2022 and my son took one of the rhubarb plants to his house which was less than one half mile away from my Grfather's house...it was back home again, on the same street.....and still growing great...USA

    • @samuelwoods164
      @samuelwoods164 Год назад +25

      Your family sound older than mine... My grandfather was born in 1896, my dad in 1945 and me in 1985.... My first son was born in 2005.

    • @OliviaLovesPugs
      @OliviaLovesPugs Год назад +31

      I have a similar story! I’m not sure exactly when this happened, but I’m guessing around 25-30 years ago (before my birth), my grandma had a friend who was moving away and she had a rhubarb plant in her yard; my grandma dug it up, and planted it at my mom and dad’s new house. It was dug up and moved around on the property a couple of times, and my mom tended to it and harvested and used the rhubarb it produced. Then when I took an interest in gardening, I took over caring for it, and we built a whole vegetable garden with raised beds around it. It’s still growing and produces very well amongst the vegetable beds, and I’m planning on digging it up again and taking it with me when we move out. I don’t know how old this plant really is, but I do know it’s older than me and I’m in my 20s, so it’s at least a few decades old, and still producing like crazy every year!

    • @deepwoodguy2
      @deepwoodguy2 Год назад +16

      @@OliviaLovesPugs it is something about those plants that they just hang on no matter what is done to them...and like you said, they keep producing every year...👍👍

    • @Automedon2
      @Automedon2 Год назад +17

      There's one in my backyard. I don't eat rhubarb but the leaves look cool. Still, I don't care if the lawnmower hits it. Its been battered around for years but cheerfully comes back fresh every year like a trooper

    • @deepwoodguy2
      @deepwoodguy2 Год назад +13

      @@Automedon2 i don't eat rhubarb, just give it away, end of season, lawnmower chops it up...and it still comes up the next year, a 1 hundred and 25 yr old plant...amazing.......

  • @Entomology314
    @Entomology314 Год назад +3520

    The fact that this was done by a man named James Dick makes it all the funnier.

    • @jean-tatlock26
      @jean-tatlock26 Год назад +22

      😂😂😂😂

    • @chrisk5651
      @chrisk5651 Год назад +100

      His middle name was Big!

    • @JackSmith-hx8zh
      @JackSmith-hx8zh Год назад +62

      Yes, "... a big man named James Dick..."!

    • @polymathica
      @polymathica Год назад +64

      Next time a political figure does something amazing for their constituents (for low-key selfish reasons or not) I’m going to say it’s “Big James Dick Energy”.

    • @dodgyyoutuber9560
      @dodgyyoutuber9560 Год назад +5

      Poo doesn’t come out of there. If it did, it’d be painful

  • @janehenry3206
    @janehenry3206 Год назад +15

    I live in the Rhubarb Triangle in West Yorkshire. You can't get better anywhere..

  • @m4rkist
    @m4rkist Год назад +13

    wild rhubarb grows along a country path near my house. this rather spectacular patch which begins sprouting this time of year climbs up the steep slope that a field sita atop and it receives constantly moving water from an old mills breached wall. its kind of the perfect combo for them and they get MASSIVE! the path itself is roughly 6 feet across and it has a dug out from the mill and then the face of the slope which adds and additional 10 feet. by november there is roughly 3 feet of path which has tattered rhubarb leaves from the footfall. it becomes a nightmare to navigate but if you like rhubarb or botany its a really treat to see how impressive they can grow.

    • @corinnedews7277
      @corinnedews7277 9 месяцев назад +1

      Are you sure it is really rhubarb? There are plants that grow near water that look like rhubarb but are poisonous!

  • @Lisasimpsonfan
    @Lisasimpsonfan Год назад +60

    Rhubarb is one of my favorites so this restaurant just got on my bucket list

  • @macdaiddavidson8051
    @macdaiddavidson8051 Год назад +191

    I love rhubarb! My mother used to make strawberry rhubarb pie and daddy and I just loved it so much. I don’t bother making a pie anymore. I just cook the rhubarb with a bit of sugar and devour it!

    • @mathdesm9306
      @mathdesm9306 Год назад +20

      As a kid I just dipped the stalk in sugar and bit it raw. Now I mix some with strawberry, raspberry and haskap preserves.

    • @macdaiddavidson8051
      @macdaiddavidson8051 Год назад +5

      @@mathdesm9306 that sounds good too!

    • @joantrotter3005
      @joantrotter3005 Год назад +10

      I made a rhubarb strawberry cobbler with banana biscuits on top awhile ago. If you like banana and strawberry together, then you will enjoy it.

    • @i8764theKevassitant
      @i8764theKevassitant Год назад +11

      My gramma makes a cherry rhubarb cheese cake crisp that's probably the best thing ive ever ate b

    • @noone-777
      @noone-777 Год назад +3

      I LOVE strawberry rhubarb pie. I've only been able to eat it a few times so whenever I find it it's a real treat,
      Rhubarb definitely needs to have more appreciation

  • @toddburgess5056
    @toddburgess5056 Год назад +10

    I'm growing a small patch of rhubarb on our side lawn. It's about 3 years old now, given to me by our neighbor who has a patch that is over 120 years old.

  • @valbankz292
    @valbankz292 10 месяцев назад +4

    He was smart & his actions also saved lots of health issues 💯💯💯💯

  • @danny100ization
    @danny100ization 11 месяцев назад +4

    I bought a rhubarb crumble tart the other day , lovely with a mug of tea .

  • @marinesinspace6253
    @marinesinspace6253 Год назад +20

    Strawberry Rhubarb pie is amazing.

    • @bigdummy9844
      @bigdummy9844 10 месяцев назад +3

      HELL YEAH IT IS!!!! 🍰

  • @yellowjackboots2624
    @yellowjackboots2624 Год назад +284

    "Rivers of shite" 😄 respect my friend

  • @uremawifenowdave
    @uremawifenowdave Год назад +136

    I’m a Scot and the best rhubarb comes from Yorkshire. Their forced rhubarb is simply stunning. They even harvest it by candlelight so as to afford the rhubarb the least light possible. If you’re ever in Yorkshire, head to the Rhubarb Triangle and prepare to be dazzled by the exquisite flavour.

    • @badhombre4942
      @badhombre4942 Год назад +22

      Exquisite flavour eh. That must be some good shite.

    • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
      @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs Год назад +11

      Yorkshire must have good shite 😂

    • @AntiqueMilk
      @AntiqueMilk 11 месяцев назад +6

      @@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs We have an entire festival around it. Its that good.

    • @CrimsonTusk
      @CrimsonTusk 10 месяцев назад +10

      Candlelight? Let's go Infrared. Night vision goggles on all the harvesters.
      Even if it only makes it 1% better, these passionate folks love that kinda stuff 🤣

    • @Ahzpayne
      @Ahzpayne 10 месяцев назад +5

      "They even harvest it by candlelight..." Any gimmick to charge the tourists more, eh?

  • @adamholden9546
    @adamholden9546 Год назад +3

    Rhubarb is great, so tart and wholesome. Get it in a pie kids!

  • @eakolynn
    @eakolynn Год назад +8

    Rhubarb is insanely versatile. One of my favorite ways to consume it is via rhubarb juice

  • @lorie76yt
    @lorie76yt Год назад +191

    Now that was a super interesting piece of trivia - Thanks for posting! :)

  • @MrJol420
    @MrJol420 Год назад +874

    Bro collected poop for a tarty fruit 🎉

    • @sapphirejade5029
      @sapphirejade5029 Год назад +29

      Well, poop is a good fertilizer. Talk about having a green thumb.

    • @BunyipoftheBillabong
      @BunyipoftheBillabong Год назад

      chinese do it all the time. that's why produce from China has that unusual taste that you can't figure out. don't buy food produced in China.

    • @pinkyuzu
      @pinkyuzu Год назад +31

      Vegetable, but yes.

    • @thebritishhistorian5717
      @thebritishhistorian5717 Год назад +8

      @MrJol420 Bro was a fruity tart for poop

    • @cassiyseaforth149
      @cassiyseaforth149 Год назад

      It's not a fucking fruit it's a vegetable

  • @CousinJesse1
    @CousinJesse1 Год назад +12

    I used to work with a man, an ex fire chief from Michigan and he said that if he ever became president, all he would do is make the United States “more of a rhubarb country”. People who love rhubarb REALLY love it.

    • @nofurtherwest3474
      @nofurtherwest3474 9 месяцев назад +1

      It’s so so. Requires a lot sugar to taste good

  • @rb1691
    @rb1691 11 месяцев назад +1

    We're in acute need of such enterprise today. Surely such solutions exist

  • @honsville
    @honsville Год назад +1

    Delightful history. I enjoyed that.

  • @blueandgreenslacks
    @blueandgreenslacks Год назад +52

    Gold tier trivia right there.

  • @jessicaferguson4518
    @jessicaferguson4518 Год назад +3508

    First rule of gardening is never use human waste….well, that’s my first rule

    • @JustAGrrrrl
      @JustAGrrrrl Год назад +260

      Right?! I don't think I'll ever be able to eat rhubarb again 😮

    • @deathbycheese850
      @deathbycheese850 Год назад +736

      You should have a look at some asian countries, who use human waste as fertiliser, and export the fruit and veg to countries like Australia. Some people have ended up very sick from not washing their fruit and veg. Some producers use chlorine to kill bacteria, but it doesn't always work. I grow my own veg.

    • @sarahpeart6500
      @sarahpeart6500 Год назад

      AFAIK washing is useless. Isn't Ecoli in the water content of the fruit and vegetables? I thought we learnt that from Chinese watermelon years ago. Also there's a house with a glasshouse and they use it only on trees and plants that are not for human consumption.

    • @rinber13
      @rinber13 Год назад +571

      It's a rule that should be followed. Medieval monks had roundworms and other parasites because they also recycled their dump in the garden.

    • @Garden366
      @Garden366 Год назад

      Yes! First and last rule!! I don’t care how many “other countries“ use this highly unsanitary practice, it’s a sure way to spread pathogens throughout an entire population. No wonder rhubarb tastes like ____.

  • @Tucher97
    @Tucher97 Год назад +5

    This Nobleman has a favorite crop and committed big brain move.

  • @harrietlyall1991
    @harrietlyall1991 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hey! Cool! I live in Edinburgh and have often fancied visiting the up-market Prestonfield House. Now I definitely will visit. I adore rhubarb, btw and make large amounts of rhubarb and ginger jam, which tastes delicious as an accompaniment to scones.

  • @foodscrazy9229
    @foodscrazy9229 Год назад +4

    Create more content like this , graphics are so lovely

  • @richardhunter132
    @richardhunter132 Год назад +5

    we had rhubarb growing in our garden when I was young and my mum made amazing rhubarb crumble from it. I didn't realise this was the origin of rhubarb in Scotland

  • @happymaskedguy1943
    @happymaskedguy1943 Год назад +10

    Rhubarb is NOT unpleasant. It’s amazing.

  • @MalloryKnox.
    @MalloryKnox. Год назад +18

    The way you just casually threw in “sh*te” with that American accent made my head spin 😳

  • @dreed1058
    @dreed1058 10 месяцев назад +1

    So cute how you did this!!

  • @carolhart8696
    @carolhart8696 Год назад +2

    Mmm stewed rhubarb, rhubarb coffee cake, rhubarb pie. Love them.

  • @snapgab
    @snapgab Год назад +21

    "a tart and generally unpleasant vegetable stalk"
    How dare you disrespect rhubarb like this?!?!

    • @bibsp3556
      @bibsp3556 8 месяцев назад

      Well, it is, unless you do it right

    • @themagnus2919
      @themagnus2919 8 месяцев назад

      It is tart and sour but that is what makes Rhubarb special.

  • @garethbarnett6389
    @garethbarnett6389 Год назад +24

    Excellent "Shite"
    Well placed, well delivered. 😂

  • @moblinmajorgeneral
    @moblinmajorgeneral Год назад +48

    Never rub another man's rhubarb- Joker, _Batman (1989)_

  • @strvinar
    @strvinar 10 месяцев назад +1

    Now thats what i call a treat. Real lovely

  • @Astro_Aladfar
    @Astro_Aladfar Год назад +4

    As a fan of Rhubarb pie and Rhubarb juice, this short filled me with delight. :D

  • @XenoEnthusiast13
    @XenoEnthusiast13 Год назад +149

    Bro said…that sh*t taste delectable.😉👍🏼

  • @misohoney1660
    @misohoney1660 Год назад +54

    How do you find all these fantastic art works and backgrounds?
    It feels like Wes Anderson directed a history class.

    • @Zappbrannigan83
      @Zappbrannigan83 Год назад +1

      I demand a 1970's rock cover performed by mandolin.

    • @aazhie
      @aazhie Год назад +2

      I agree and also I think much of this is public domain art :3

    • @SolarpunkVince
      @SolarpunkVince Год назад +2

      It's AI (once you know what to look for it's really obvious)

    • @misohoney1660
      @misohoney1660 Год назад +1

      To be fair yall, I did ask the poster. Until they confirm it I'm gonna assume there's a source.

    • @skage1491
      @skage1491 Год назад +2

      It's mostly AI. If you pause and look there's some very telling characteristics; wonky brickwork, windows, and doors, that are bent weirdly, and asymmetrical when it doesn't make sense with the architecture, inconsistent lighting, and angles, and people that look slightly off (hands and facial features tend to be the most noticeable)

  • @SalMinella
    @SalMinella Год назад +30

    Have you showed us this house before? I feel like this is the one that had the room that I said everybody makes in the Sims when they learn the Rosebud! cheat.

  • @AdirondackRuby
    @AdirondackRuby Год назад +1

    Rhubarb is Awesome! It grows like crazy in this plot beside our garage, where we toss all our food scraps and yard waste.

  • @kareemtabsh
    @kareemtabsh 11 месяцев назад +1

    Bravo! Entertaining and educational!

  • @doyoureadme94
    @doyoureadme94 Год назад +14

    As a fellow fan of rhubarb, I co-sign this.

  • @canteventhough
    @canteventhough Год назад +4

    Rhubarb is VERY pleasant.

  • @priscillajimenez27
    @priscillajimenez27 10 месяцев назад +4

    The sky was a genius and ahead of his time.

  • @baronandbaronessvonwolf4618
    @baronandbaronessvonwolf4618 11 месяцев назад +1

    Rhubarb cobbler. I miss you grandma i love you

  • @nadineraynor2539
    @nadineraynor2539 Год назад +3

    As a kid on the ranch, my mom would take her wheel borrow out and collect cow chips to break up and fertilize her rubbarb.

  • @sam8204
    @sam8204 Год назад +6

    This is the second time I’ve heard this “14 storey-high tenements in Edinburgh” fact mentioned in a RUclips short, and now I want a citation. Quick google search only points to a tiny newspaper. That would be a remarkable architectural feat for the era, wouldn’t it?

    • @artofthereal
      @artofthereal Год назад +2

      How tall were cathedrals again?

    • @robinrehlinghaus1944
      @robinrehlinghaus1944 Год назад +3

      ​@@artoftherealA cathedral isn't built like a normal house

    • @SoufSideGuapo
      @SoufSideGuapo Год назад

      🤦🏽‍♂️ that wasn’t shit nothing remarkable when civilization’s has already built megastructures pyramids etc

    • @sam8204
      @sam8204 Год назад +5

      @@SoufSideGuapo well yeah, but that’s a massive stone structure with a wide base meant as a tomb to a king, not a tenement in a crowded city with 14 different floors for the urban working class used on a daily basis. Tallest buildings in Edinburgh until that point were cathedrals and churches, which were massive both horizontally and vertically. Anything else would bear closer resemblance to skyscrapers built post 1884 that still usually only had about 10 floors (not gonna cite that as it’s an easy fact to verify)

  • @Fortula1official
    @Fortula1official Год назад +9

    As a scotsman, I can confirm that this is fact

  • @metallica1fan1
    @metallica1fan1 Год назад +12

    "Never rub another man's rhubarb."

  • @erict7093
    @erict7093 Год назад +1

    Look at those trees with the steel structure...love them!

  • @4ndy65
    @4ndy65 Год назад +1

    never has the word shite been so magnificent

  • @madeleinepettigrew1033
    @madeleinepettigrew1033 Год назад +12

    This reminds me of my great grandparents farm house, they had two big rhubarb patches, one behind the barns and one right next to the in-use out house, where the exit hole is. I was pretty sure no one ever ate the outhouse rhubarb, but my dad said what they harvested from that patch was always the sweetest 😳
    He may have misremembered, or been joking, but that’s a patch I’ll never harvest from, even though it has the largest healthiest rhubarb I’ve ever seen.
    I feel like calling it “poobarb”, but that seems wrong.

    • @SpringNotes
      @SpringNotes Год назад +1

      Your dad's right. I bet that rhubarb was the best tasting. I believe in some countries, they still use human manure to grow their crops.

    • @madeleinepettigrew1033
      @madeleinepettigrew1033 Год назад +1

      @@SpringNotes I think areas of South America and maybe Mexico use human manure, it can be really good and dangerous. Maybe that and squashing old plant material in crop areas are what has made South America have the best soil and humus ratio in the Americas.

  • @Cerulean0987
    @Cerulean0987 Год назад +8

    Love rhubarb jams and pies. Tasty

  • @BlackEpyon
    @BlackEpyon Год назад +4

    Rhubarb makes a nice pie filler.

  • @wilurbean
    @wilurbean Год назад +1

    Greed when harnessed properly is pretty good

  • @CarpeNoctum95
    @CarpeNoctum95 Год назад +2

    My parents house used to grow rhubarb. It’s actually nice if it’s cut up into sticks and dipped in sugar. It doesn’t sound like it would be, but it is. I guess that’s partly where the rhubarb and custard sweets come from.

  • @Nicole-sd9xh
    @Nicole-sd9xh Год назад +5

    My ancestor!❤❤❤

  • @tylerrobbins8311
    @tylerrobbins8311 Год назад +4

    Fun fact Rhubarb is a natural pesticide and will kill most bugs, it's actually great at keeping a healthy garden by warding off pest and molds.
    Also you can make a completely safe pesticide from it's leaves that won't be toxic to your garden. Note you must thoroughly wash your veggies before cooking and especially before eating. There is a reason you can't eat they greens of Rhubarb.

    • @BooBuKittyPhuk
      @BooBuKittyPhuk Год назад +2

      Cool deal! Every gardener should know this 🤓👍

  • @AugustTheStag
    @AugustTheStag Год назад +3

    I looooove rhubarb! Especially when accompanied by another fruit.

  • @clarkside4493
    @clarkside4493 7 месяцев назад +1

    One man's trash is another man's treasure.

  • @AlissaSss23
    @AlissaSss23 Год назад +1

    Stunning restaurant and super cool fact ❤

  • @Gramfel
    @Gramfel Год назад +13

    If yalls never tried rhubarb pie, idk what yalls been doing with your life?

    • @conradmcdougall3629
      @conradmcdougall3629 Год назад +2

      Try using English

    • @joantrotter3005
      @joantrotter3005 Год назад

      *all y'alls. Happy now?!

    • @RuthvenMurgatroyd
      @RuthvenMurgatroyd Год назад

      Personally, I'm cool with y'all but "y'alls" is just too much (unless, I guess, if it's used as a possessive as in "straighten y'alls ties" or something). Seriously, you're trying to make a plural from a word that's already plural and it's just ugly. Also, since I'm already being a grammar fasc let me just point out here that your sentence isn't a question so the question mark is completely misplaced.

  • @fredriks5090
    @fredriks5090 Год назад +3

    "This right here is some good shit"
    - James Dick, on sewage and rhubarb alike.

  • @TimesRyan
    @TimesRyan Год назад +36

    There was a 14 story building in the 1600s!?

    • @duncanbryson1167
      @duncanbryson1167 Год назад +22

      There was multistorey housing in Rome in the days of empire. I'm not sure how many storeys though.

    • @RandomStranger246
      @RandomStranger246 Год назад +19

      The Tron Kirk was among the tallest buildings in Edinburg in the 1600s and the top of its spire was about 12 stories, so very doubtful that people lived or spent time in buildings much higher than 5 or 6 modern height stories, nevermind dumped shit out the window from that height.

    • @davecameron9052
      @davecameron9052 Год назад +22

      @@RandomStranger246 Pre-1800s, many buildings in Edinburgh were very tall and narrow to cram as many people into the city walls as possible, some as tall as 14/15 storeys. Since they were slums though many were torn down, and the Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824 destroyed many others.
      Also, many of the closes heading downhill that are now mostly uninhabited (like Mary King’s Close) would’ve been flanked by these tall buildings.
      Fun fact about the shite too: they shouted “gardyloo” when they chucked their waste out the window, and it would run down into the Nor Loch where Princes Street Gardens is now, drained because it was proper minging (probably why the gardens are so fertile😂)

    • @daking912
      @daking912 Год назад +9

      @@RandomStranger246 they definitely did dump poo down from that height, they would shout gardyloo as they chucked it out the window if ppl didn't move they would be covered in piss and poo

    • @moff1874
      @moff1874 Год назад +2

      The first skyscrapers apparently.

  • @beafraidofinsectattack
    @beafraidofinsectattack 8 месяцев назад

    i really like the aesthetics in this video

  • @taptenklerlostkeys5552
    @taptenklerlostkeys5552 Год назад +1

    14 stores high buildings?! Incredible... Did not know that.

  • @chrisz8585
    @chrisz8585 Год назад +4

    I ❤ rhubarb ! Pie Plant...😊👍

  • @aw4610
    @aw4610 Год назад +10

    You gotta compost it!!! Never use raw waste!!!

  • @cathrinewhite7629
    @cathrinewhite7629 Год назад +18

    No..just no. Never want to time travel backwards🤮

  • @noddygirl
    @noddygirl 8 месяцев назад

    My Great Aunt used to grow rhubarb. She made a *DELICIOUS* pink applesauce with it that I miss so very much. Rhubarb pie as well. Oh it was soooo good.

  • @whatsreal7506
    @whatsreal7506 8 месяцев назад

    Mom had a rhubarb patch in the backyard in the 60s and 70s. Great pies!

  • @roryreid307
    @roryreid307 Год назад +6

    *Lord Provost

  • @MariaRamirez-mo5fl
    @MariaRamirez-mo5fl Год назад +5

    Glad I do not eat rhubarb 😂😂😂

  • @twalsh29
    @twalsh29 Год назад

    Love the graphics

  • @megret1808
    @megret1808 8 месяцев назад

    Loved my mother’s rhubarb pies made from plants right at the back door

  • @acountryboysopinion6001
    @acountryboysopinion6001 7 месяцев назад

    I like Rhubarb. My Moma & Mamaw used to grow it every year.

  • @mrsmartypants4541
    @mrsmartypants4541 Год назад +1

    Rhubarb is great, cakes, kompot, or just dipping it in sugar between bites. I love it

  • @sicksideworldwide1599
    @sicksideworldwide1599 9 месяцев назад

    Rhubarb and strawberry crumble an outstanding desert

  • @seandepoppe6716
    @seandepoppe6716 Год назад +1

    And yet today it grows wild in my backyard

  • @RogerCollectz
    @RogerCollectz Год назад +1

    Man rhubarb is so good. At my grandma house they grew a lot of different vegetables, but the one thing I loved was the rhubarb she grew. I’d get one, peel of the outside and eat it with salt yum 😋🤤

  • @Eludinium
    @Eludinium 10 месяцев назад +1

    As a lover of rhubarb, I approve of this man.

  • @arlenethomas1167
    @arlenethomas1167 10 месяцев назад +1

    My Aunt's neighbor next door to her in Massachusetts had wild rhubarb growing in their front yard, n they would let us try a couple of the stalks, n my first time trying it in raw form to, it was like tasting bittersweet candy!😋 I was just a little girl at the time. I'll never forget it. Kinda like celery but you just chew on it instead, lolz you won't find it like that in the grocery store either. Cause that was fresh all natural...🕊💛✨ everyone!🙏🏼

  • @lordhelmet9066
    @lordhelmet9066 Год назад +1

    It grows wild everywhere in alaska

  • @zedmelon
    @zedmelon 8 месяцев назад

    My great grandma used to take rhubarb and make it into a sort of preserves-like stuff. It was delicious; we used it exactly as you'd use jam or jelly.
    I was a kid and never asked how she did it, but it was likely simmered for a few hours with a little sugar.
    Years later, now I've got a craving, dangit.

  • @haydenblanchard2006
    @haydenblanchard2006 Год назад +1

    rhubarb is not “generally unpleasant” you just ain’t eaten enough of it.

  • @rossdiggle
    @rossdiggle Год назад

    Live in the rhubarb triangle. I appreciate this man respecting our plant

  • @PintuMahakul
    @PintuMahakul 9 месяцев назад

    Very nice information given! Thank very much for sharing.

  • @DevilsRadvocate
    @DevilsRadvocate Год назад +1

    Thanks RUclips shorts for showing me the history of rhubarb in scotland

  • @patchthesinclair5896
    @patchthesinclair5896 Год назад

    My parents were married at Prestonfield house in 1952 when it was still a private house.

  • @robb2biago
    @robb2biago Год назад

    I just bought rhubarb. It’s the best for a nice compote or galette with strawberries

  • @Thefloorsspeakyiddish
    @Thefloorsspeakyiddish 7 месяцев назад +1

    Why could they figure out such brilliant architecture yet not some thing as simple as a cistern? The romans mastered water movement, it hasn’t been a secret for thousands of years