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Originally Posted by seatrout
Roast Chestnuts are really popular with us from now until christmas. There is a roast chestnut stand at every town and village winter carnival. They smell and taste great.
Over here, the kids also pick horse chestnuts, bore a hole through the middle and tie a piece of string through them - then try and bash hell out of each others chestnuts - we call it conkers.
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That's cute! Glad to hear chestnuts (both edible and inedible) are popular somewhere else, too. :-) And the smell of roasted chestnuts is synonymous for autumn for me - and yes, their season ends with Christmas here, too.