On Sun, 23 May 2021 12:48:43 -0600, wolfy's new skateboard
> wrote:

>On 5/22/2021 1:28 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 May 2021 20:07:47 +0100, S Viemeister
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/05/2021 16:36, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 11:08:01 AM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 21 May 2021 di1wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had a roasted sweet potato the other day.
>>>>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/CAAnhHWszTPGaBvq5
>>>>>
>>>>> You can buy them from street venders all over NYC. They have push
>>>>> carts with a coal stove and a pile of sweet potatoes... there they are
>>>>> called "baked". They are sold during the cold months and are kept in
>>>>> pockets as hand warmers.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, look. It's still 1947 in Sheldon's World.
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/20/archives/westchester-weekly-how-sweet-it-was-the-potato-cart-of-yore.html>
>>>>
>>> I spent quite a bit of time in NYC studying at AADA, and although hot
>>> chestnut, pretzel, and hotdog vendors were common, I never saw a hot
>>> sweet potato vendor. Now I know why. There weren't any.
>>
>>
>> I loved those chestnuts.
>>
>
>How can they be gone???
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>https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-ima...-image35981954
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>https://www.yelp.com/biz/roasted-che...carts-new-york
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>Only two vendors left?!?!??
>
>Wow.
>
>https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ticle-1.473997
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>Sayed Elshahat, 32, who mans a cart at Fifth Ave. and 39th St., said he
>used to start selling chestnuts at $4 a dozen as early as October. Now,
>it's just around Christmas.
>
>"Chestnuts are expensive for us," he said. "There is less people buying
>them so less vendors are selling them. We can't afford to sell something
>nobody is buying."
>
>Roasted chestnuts appear to going the way of baked sweet potatoes,
>another once-ubiquitous sidewalk snack that went extinct in the 1950s,
>said New York food guru Arthur Schwartz.
>
>"The simple answer is that few people have the taste for roasted
>chestnuts. Not Americans anyway - not even New Yorkers," he said. "Hence
>the chestnuts are in the touristic areas of the city."
>
>Also, the roasted chestnuts responsible for that fragrant scent wafting
>over city streets are imported from Italy, which makes them pricey
>street fare, Schwartz said.
>
>"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire is some romantic idea from a song,
>but not something to eat," he said.
>
>"It's nostalgic street food," said Sean Basinski of the Urban Justice
>Center, which advocates on behalf of the vendors. "I think it smells
>better than it tastes."
>
>Joanne Amendola, 60, visiting from Trumbull, Conn., agreed after buying
>a bag of nuts at at Fifth Ave. and 46th St. vendor.
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
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