YES YES YES! breakfast lunch and supper, I just can't get enough. I'm bonkers about conkers!
39%39 Votes
Absolutely not the very idea disgusts me!
38%38 Votes
No - but I wouldn't mind trying some.
7%7 Votes
Yes - once but I won't be eating them again.
17%17 Votes
YES YES YES! breakfast lunch and supper, I just can't get enough. I'm bonkers about conkers!
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The nuts are rich in starch but they are not suitable for human food due to the presence of saponins, which are soap-like chemicals. They have been made into a food for horses and cattle in the past, by soaking them first in lime-water so reduce their bitterness. Alternatively they were soaked in water overnight and then boiled for half an hour and the water thrown away. Then they were ground up and added to the rest of the fodder.
isn't there a difference between the ordinary chestnut and the sweet chestnut (latter one may be eaten qithout risk)? Well, at least, I sometimes do eat some, rosted, and then pelled (is this a word for "free from an outer hull"?), and well, eaten. Tasty, but i'm not nuts about it...
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I love them!
Love em with egg n chips
aren't conkers the same as chestnuts?
i make furniture and recyclable home perm kits out of them, but as yet have not experienced eating them
Only when my nuts are dry
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyWell over here they're called CONKERS and I love them! Check out www.bonkersaboutconker.tk and don't forget to sign the guest book.
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplySorry I meant www.bonkersaboutconkers.tk
Poisenous to humans - Only if you eat them through your mouth. One or two at at time up the bum are ok, but take longer to ingest
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyYes but the old fasion method not very good for you! To many soap like chemicals apparently. Maybe that why they are better up the bum.
I obvioulsy get a free saopy colonic when I eat mine!
The nuts are rich in starch but they are not suitable for human food due to the presence of saponins, which are soap-like chemicals. They have been made into a food for horses and cattle in the past, by soaking them first in lime-water so reduce their bitterness. Alternatively they were soaked in water overnight and then boiled for half an hour and the water thrown away. Then they were ground up and added to the rest of the fodder.
You sound like a real conker expert! Please join our conker brigade by signing the guest book at www.bonkersaboutconkers.tk
Sound like you have a book on the subject. Can you add this wealth of knowledge to the website.
Support is always welcome.
conkers are not for eating- they are for personal decoration purposes only - hence conkers on your donkers......
thanks for your comment evil pixie - please vote for my question and have your say in the big conker debate!
please bring conkers to the tuna kings gig at the dragon club, they are running out. they are used for fixing dodgy speakers and putting on donkers.
isn't there a difference between the ordinary chestnut and the sweet chestnut (latter one may be eaten qithout risk)? Well, at least, I sometimes do eat some, rosted, and then pelled (is this a word for "free from an outer hull"?), and well, eaten. Tasty, but i'm not nuts about it...