SC -veal longings

[Barbara Sall]

In a message dated 2/7/2001 4:50:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes: 

> Is this those brown spiny round things that litter the ground every fall 
and 
>  many folks use in crafts??  You can eat the insides?  And to think, I just 
>  make snowmen out of them...
>  Olwen

Not knowing where you are I can't say, but it sounds like you're describing 
sweet gum balls, which, last time I checked didn't have anything remotely 
edible in them. 

Beech nuts OTOH, are quite edible if you can pry them out of the burr and 
shell them, which sounds a lot like the chinquapin description. Awful lot of 
work for a small reward though.

Corwyn