[Magdalen] Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Reminds me of some wonderful confections made with peanut butter other good stuff and nearly covered in chocolate also called buckeyes
Lynn 



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On Nov 29, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

Horse chestnuts are also known as 'buckeyes" in the US, and especially in
Ohio and the upper midwest.

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/29/16 3:11 PM, Sally Davies wrote:
>> 
>> The other chestnuts I know from there are the ones kids use to make
>> "conkers", pretty but completely inedible even by horses though they are
>> called "horse chestnuts". I brought one back in my pocket but it didn't
>> grow, it probably didn't like South Africa.
>> 
> 
> As I understand it, the word "horse" when attached to a plant is a
> corruption of "coarse".  Usually, anyway.
> 
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