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Sadly, no mention of rhubarb pie, which I'd never had before moving to the southern U.S.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_pie

The wikipedia page also mentions what seems like a important tidbit: the stalks remain toxic if frostbitten.

In Michigan, Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie is pretty common and available at any larger grocery store year round. Plain rhubarb pie (which is superior in my opinion) is much less common but still available upon request from most bakeries. Similarly, my family has "Rhubarb Crunch", basically an Apple Crisp using rhubarb instead of apples, at every major family gathering in the summer.

Apple-rhubarb (or pear-rhubarb) crisp is also great!

I remember how ubiquitous it was in Michigan as well. I grow it here in central Wisconsin, but it doesn't seem part of the cultural landscape as in Michigan.

It also makes tremendous wine, especially when blended with Grigio.

Oops, I didn't mean to imply it's unique to the south, just that I'd never had it growing up in Miami. The delicacy there (which has no equal) is key-lime pie. :-)

I'm surprised you had it in the Southern U.S. since only in the last 5 years or so has it started appearing in grocery stores here in Texas. Growing up, my mom used to serve rhubarb pie to guests (she got the rhubarb and froze it when my grandparents visited from Wisconsin) and unless the guests were also from northern states they usually treated it like a curiosity they'd never encountered before.

We had rhubarb pie in Australia which is even farther south! I liked it as a kid in part because otherwise our pies had meat in them.

Rhubarb crumble is what I had growing up. I just baked one today in fact.

In Yorkshire, UK, my mum used to make that pretty often. Of course it helped that we had Rhubarb growing in our garden.

Nowadays I live in Finland, and I was recently pleased to see some wild rhubarb growing in a local park. I'm planning on harvesting some of it later in the summer.

My wife's family, which is from York County, Pennsylvania, makes rhubarb pie. York County isn't very far north, but the Mason-Dixon line is its southern border.

X and rhubarb pie, where X is any kind of fruit or berry, is a staple pie variety in Maine, so it's not exclusive to the South.

Ditto Minnesota.

We used to eat rhubarb pie at family shindigs in (upstate-ish) New York -- definitely not an exclusively southern thing!

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