Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!kolling From: kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: water chestnuts Message-ID: <3711@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 22:35:01 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3711 Posted: Fri Aug 16 22:35:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:41:31 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA Lines: 10 I bought two cans of water chestnuts recently, (the first time I ever bought water chestnuts except as part of something in a restaurant). They smelled a bit peculiar, so peculiar that I decided not to even taste them. Does everybody know something I don't know about buying water chestnuts, like I'm supposed to hop off to a Chinese grocery and buy them fresh (then what?), or the canned ones need to be washed a million times, or? Karen