On 2016-11-11 1:40 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 11/11/2016 11:42 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 11/11/2016 9:04 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>>> Maybe that's why it's not at the top of my sweet potato list... I
>>>> don't like chestnuts either.
>>>>
>>> I *want* to like chestnuts, if that makes any sense. The one time my
>>> mom bought some (1970's) and we roasted them in the fireplace they were
>>> just so-so. That was in Tennessee, though; who knows how old they might
>>> have been before she bought them.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> I've had quite a range of bad to good. Done right, they are very tasty
>> but that is not all that often. Not sure if it is me or the quality of
>> the nuts. Best ones were from the street corner carts years ago.
>
> So I've heard about the street corner carts, years before I was born no
> doubt. I never lived in a place where they sold roasted chestnuts on
> street corners. <sigh>
>

Dang. I was looking for a link to send to show you that they sell them
in front of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, but all I found was one
that dealt with the vendors carts that used to be there.

https://www.rom.on.ca/en/romrecollec...word/chestnuts