Wednesday, October 20, 2021

LINE 'EM UP, BUT DON'T EAT 'EM


Most of you will recognize these as horse chestnuts, the non-edible kind. Actually, they can cause serious gastrointestinal damage to  humans and can be fatal to dogs and other animals.

Says the Internet:" When you hear the song about chestnuts roasting on an open fire, don’t mistake these nuts for horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts, also called conkers, are a very different nut. Are horse chestnuts edible? They are not. In general, toxic horse chestnuts should not be consumed by people, horses or other livestock."





2 comments:

William Kendall said...

Definitely to be avoided.

Rockinon said...

I have vague memories of drilling holes in these, running a string through the chestnut and playing a game with other boys, back when I was not yet ten. We would smash our chestnuts together, swinging them violently from the end of the string, and the boy with the chestnut that didn't disintegrate from the blows won the match.

THE MARKET AFTER HOURS

 Merchants have all packed up and gone home....