[borntoshoot]

hi all, yesterday my mum made us drive for half an hour to black park nature reserve/park to walk the dog and walk round a lake full of people doing my f*****g nut in feeding the "cute" grey squirrls and hand feeding geese and ducks :wallbash:

anyway we had a bit of a walk around the footpaths in the woodland and i found loads of sweet chestnuts, well as i only had my school coat and not my wax jacket i couldnt collect many, maybe 20 or 30, i cooked some last night on the fire and have just done some a min ago and half of them had fecking maggots in them. :censored: :wallbash: so i spent half a hour getting spiked to feck taking them out the casing/capsules and they fecking rotten.

will stick to buying them in town at. christmas i think

all the best,

borntoshoot

[ratattack]

Lol you shoulda checked first :doh: The maggots will be cooked so won't do you any harm ;)

You are lucky to have some near you that are good/big enough to collect they are all really shriveled here :no:

[bert69]

just check the shells as you pick them up, the maggots will leave a tell tale little hole in the shell, discard those ones.

[borntoshoot]

bert69, on Oct 30 2009, 01:28 PM, said:

just check the shells as you pick them up, the maggots will leave a tell tale little hole in the shell, discard those ones.

i did notice most of them, but alot of them didnt have holes in that were noticable.

and also we dont have any local to us, and these wernt that big either but just big enough, we had to drive about 20 miles to get to this park where i found them.

[leegreen]

Sweet Chestnut are big this year near me,are they the same for anyone else?
Don't buy them if you can help it, they are probably French :o not that that is a problem to me but why buy something when we have our own, admitedly ours are a bit smaller but hey they are free yc.