[Magdalen] Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

[Grace Cangialosi]

And I LOVE roasted chestnuts!  Different strokes and all that...

> On Nov 29, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> On a trip to New York City in the mid-1950's I stopped at what was
> then ubiquitous along the streets of Midtown Manhattan:  Vendors  selling
> roasted chestnuts.  I don't recall seeing these vendors in recent  years.
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> I couldn't stand the roasted chestnuts (presumably imported from  Europe
> since all American Chestnuts were dead of Chestnut Blight by then).
> The taste was like I would imagine ground oak acorns to be.
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> My spouse bought some roasted chestnuts recently, and my memories
> were confirmed.  IMHO they are awful.
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> Somebody must have thought chestnuts were tasty, hence the Christmas
> song,  I'm all for the restoration of the American Chestnut, but I  suspect
> the taste of those nuts is pretty much the same.
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> David S.