Anybody else out there raid the neighbor's rubarb patch?

Growing up, we had an elderly couple next door with a nice garden.

Years later, the lady told me how they would look out their window and watch me sitting in the rhubarb, munching away, making sour faces, thinking no one knew.

The rhubarb would be completely safe from me. I hate the stuff!!!! I was guilty of swiping a few watermelons out of the field when I was a teenager back in Texas. We'd also cut open one of the big ones (too heavy to carry away) and eat it on the spot.

When ever I would visit my grandparents home,I would raid the rhubarb patch.I would take the rhubarb to the next door neighbor Bertha.A few hours later she would come over with a warm rhubarb pie.

Good times.

Not rhubarb, but everything else.

A case of beer, fresh corn on the cob and potatoes on an open fire at the lake was wonderful.

One night, the boys even stole a chicken, whacked its head off, sort of plucked it, and put it on a spit over the fire.

They neglected to gut it. That was a bit of a mess.

Hell of a midnight meal when you're 17.

Edit; just noticed, I'm answering a guy whose name is "common sense".

We had our own rhubarb patch, so there was no need to rob the neighbor's. I knew better than to step foot in my neighbor's yard, let alone their garden. If I had, I would have gotten a spanking by my dad.

Sure do but it was my mom's patch. Used them as umbrellas as kids too to keep the sun off your head. Raised in Oreg. and everyone had an apple orchard and every farmer had a bag of rock salt in some shed someplace. I would stick a handful in my pocket and I was set for the day. The creek held our pop bottle of milk to retrieve when the sun was over head.

When I was a kid we used to raid Old Man Roland's watermelon patch(much better than rhubarb!) and he would come after us with rock salt and nails. We were too stupid to be scared, we thought it was fun!

I thought that Rhubarb was toxic before cooking?

Sorry... My bad... The LEAVES are toxic before cooking but the stems are just sour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb

So no... I never tried to eat raw Rhubarb because I thought it would make me ill.

As an infant I did sit in my grandma's garden and eat the baby carrots by the fist full... I would crawl to the baby pool in the yard and wash the soil off of them before eating them.

We got lots of pictures of that!

Yes, both with salt.....Mmmmmmm. That was the closest I ever got to steeling.

Not me, I don't care for rhubarb.