Date:  Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:32:26 -0500

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: pignuts



>While helping my father (from Hannibal, MO) rake up his leaves this past

>weekend, he pointed out what he called "pignuts" under the leaves--a very

>thick-hulled, small-meat hickory nut (or are all hickory nuts like this?).

>Has anyone else heard this term, and if so, where, when, etc.?

>Thanks.

>Greg Pulliam

>HUMPULLIAM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]minna.acc.iit.edu

>IIT-Chicago



I have known hickory nuts in Pennsylvania and in Georgia, and they have all

been thick-hulled and small-meated. You need a hammer to crack one of

those things. (Here in Georgia,) we've been doing some work in the woods

and had been setting up a chair in the shade of a hickory tree. However,

the nuts drop with such violence that we now caution the women and children

to stay out from under the hickory tree.



But I do not know "pignuts."





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu