Lose the rhubarb

I don't get rhubarb. It's very similar to another... thing (root? plant?), celery, which I despise greatly. I even come from a state where nothing sweet grows because the season is too short, so I've been eating rhubarb (ok, I've been eating the pie crust around rhubarb unless my grandmother caught me) since I was a kid. 

But I just don't understand trying to make something so obviously awful palatable by marinating it in five pounds of sugar. And I think people who say they like it just got tricked into eating it and are now trying to trick me into it. I'll just have the pie crust, thanks.