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The Bizarre Story of the Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb Triangle (2020x90)

Air date: Apr 21, 2020

Enjoy my educational conten→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: The Fruit That Tastes Like Chocolate Pudding, Is White Chocolate Actually Chocolate, and Much More https://youtu.be/Owvyq93M00Y What's the Difference Between a Pony and a Horse, and a Donkey and a Mule? https://youtu.be/U5Jh-jBlNoM In this video: Tucked away in the English county of Yorkshire is a small 9 square mile patch of land known colloquially as The Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle. As the name suggests, this area is famous for producing nearly all of the rhubarb consumed in Britain and, at one point, produced enough forced rhubarb to satisfy almost the entire world’s demand. Oddly, despite literal centuries of technological advancement being made since the area became known for cultivating the plant, all of the rhubarb produced in the Triangle is picked by hand, by candlelight. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/04/the-bizarre-story-of-the-yorkshire-forced-rhubarb-triangle/ Sources: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/enter-dark-mysteries-rhubarb-triangle-7323193 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2016/05/18/does-rhubarb-deserve-its-killer-reputation/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/4685636.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2010/02/the_rhubarb_triangle.html https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jan/31/mysteries-of-the-rhubarb-triangle