Barbara's Rhubarb Bar

In 1981, it appeared as Barbararabarberbararabierenbarbarenbaardenbarbier ("Barbara's rhubarb bar's Arab barbarians' beards' barber") in Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde, a book of word play from Hugo Brandt Corstius.

Brandt Corstius remembers having heard the tongue twister before World War II in one of Chiel de Boer [nl]'s comedy routines.

[12] A 1950 article with rhubarb recipes in Libelle refers to the tongue twister in the introduction, suggesting that it "must have been invented by a logopedician as an exercise for slow talkers".

Wartke had the idea of making a humorous rap-like song and video based on the tongue twister and wrote the lyrics, while Fischer created the music.

[2][15][16][17][b] Wartke often makes comedic songs from German tongue twisters, which he says he frequently discovers on speech therapy websites.

[1][2][15] The popularity of the videos has been attributed in part to the decision of the Universal Music Group to stop releasing their content to TikTok, creating an opening for unaffiliated contributors.

[2] Tobias Hagge, another German musical comedian, notes that there was also a song popular around 1930, about a woman named Veronika, whose ability to make asparagus grow gives rise to a double entendre.