[Sca-cooks] Re: chestnutter [was Roasting chestnuts]

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:34:15 -0800
  Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Had Mel Torme, songwriter of "A Christmas Song," 
>actually done a lot of chestnut-roasting on an open fire 
>in nearly chestnut-free Los Angeles? Hard to say.

as my husband says, chestnuts roasting on a open fire was 
a leisurely thing for lovers, not a  git 'er done thing 
for dinner. ;)

cailte
too many bad memories of chestnut fuzz...
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