. Old Chestnut

I bought chestnuts from Molly Stones (the most expensive grocery store on the planet) and I roasted them at 425 degrees for 24 minutes which is exactly the right amount of heat and time for chestnuts. And we ate some, and they didn't taste very nice, and when we looked more closely we saw that they were moldy. Dammit, Molly Stones, I hate you and your stupid overpriced moldy chestnuts.

The phrase "old chestnut" comes from a 19th century play called The Broken Sword by William Diamond where some guy called Captain Xavier keeps telling the same joke over and over and it gets boring and it's got something to do with a tree and one time he says it's a cork tree and some other guy called Pablo says "A chestnut. I have heard you tell the joke twenty-seven times, and I am sure it was a chestnut." And later someone else in the 19th century who had presumably seen the play must have heard a boring old joke and said "That's an old chestnut" and everyone probably just stared at him and thought what the hell are you talking about, and he would probably have been a bit embarrassed, unless he was rich, in which case everyone would have thought what the hell are you talking about but instead of just staring at him they would have laughed uproariously because rich people are scary because they can kill you and get away with it like Molly Stones and that is where the phrase "old chestnut" comes from.