On Sunday I bought cobnuts off a roadside vendor. They're a Kentish speciality and- though I spent much of my youth in the county- I'd never (knowingly) eaten them before. They taste a lot like coconut.
All I know is what I saw online, myself. It said that the Kentish Cob is a particular cultivar of hazelnut developed in the 1830s and so successful that it supplanted other varietals.
Also, I just learned that there is a difference between hazelnuts and filberts. The things you didn't know!
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Date: 2011-09-09 09:51 am (UTC)Also, I just learned that there is a difference between hazelnuts and filberts. The things you didn't know!