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I wasn't aware of it being British either. It was just something that grew in the backyard of the house I grew up in, in upstate New York.

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The UK supplies much of world's Rhubarb, most of it from the so called Rhubarb Triangle in Yorkshire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_Triangle where it is "forced", it apparently grows so quick you can hear it!

I didn't know it needed "supplying" because it just grew year after year by our back porch, with no special encouragement.

Wikipedia says it was known simply as "pie plant" in the US in the 19th century.

Although strawberry-rhubarb pie is a common combination, I recall pies of my childhood being rhubarb alone.

I don't think it is particularly British. It's just so commonplace here that i assumed it was - in much the same way as i imagine the Irish feel about potatoes, and the Italians about pasta!

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