rhubarb

And a few years ago, we started a ritual of making strawberry rhubarb pie with our boys.

Put another way: Song or no song, every spring across Germany, rhubarb goes completely viral.

The entire background is bathed in scarlet, which quickly drew comparisons to hellfire and "Satanic servitude," and "rhubarb pie filling," amongst others.

On X, comparisons ranged anywhere from "hell" to "rhubarb pie filling," but few were kind.

Frannie, my maternal-grandmother and true Southern belle that she was, made rhubarb famous in my family, not only because of how much she loved Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie but because of the way she said it.