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Personal peeve: the chestnut is not very nutty. And I love nuts of almost all sorts. It's really more like a small potato.
by UIUC_06 5y ago
Personal peeve: the chestnut is not very nutty. And I love nuts of almost all sorts.
It's really more like a small potato.
- Alex3917 5y agoAlso, fwiw basically everything you know about the chestnut tree is a lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TksLHWB9Wbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TksLHWB9Wbk
- Retric 5y agoA clarification for those watching the video dominance is generally defined in terms of biomass not numbers. The American Chestnut could grow quite large, which changes some of these comparisons.
- crygin 5y agoAnd yet, the chestnut is one of the very few commonly eaten botanical nuts (along with the hazelnut and some acorns) -- nearly all other culinary nuts are otherwise (drupes, seeds, legumes, etc).