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Unshelled sunflower seeds are the worst snack.

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On my way home tonight, I stopped at the gas station for a snack to munch on when I got home. Decided to mix it up a bit and try some sunflower seeds, which was a huge mistake.

Why is it so hard to get a clean break on these shells? Im supposed to be spitting shells all over my living room? Obviously not, oh im supposed to just manually pull slobbery shells from my mouth? All this work for such a little reward? The seeds aren't even that good as most of the flavoring is on the shell. Who enjoys eating these? I don't get it.
 
You do it all in your mouth. With practice (i was a kid) you can cleanly open most of them with tongue and teeth alone.
I hate shelled ones actually. Half the fun is missing.

EDIT: sometimes i just eat the shell too if i'm feeling lazy
 
dallow_bg said:
You do it all in your mouth. With practice (i was a kid) you can cleanly open most of them with tongue and teeth alone.
I hate shelled ones actually. Half the fun is missing.

EDIT: sometimes i just eat the shell too if i'm feeling lazy
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Yup, same with Pecans. Do that shit in your mouth, swallow the seed, spit out the shell.

Just got to git good.
Scrub

As other have said, you can eat the shell too, although I can't imagine that being fantastic for your digestive system.
 
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Like poster 1 said, deshelling the seed in ur mouth is half the fun, it involves some finesse like a parrot

And there's savage mode where you straight up munch the living fuck out of a handful of shell on seeds, suck the flavor out of that bitch and blast that ball of shrapnel out of ur mouth, feels good dude
 
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nintendork666 said:
On my way home tonight, I stopped at the gas station for a snack to munch on when I got home. Decided to mix it up a bit and try some sunflower seeds, which was a huge mistake.

Why is it so hard to get a clean break on these shells? Im supposed to be spitting shells all over my living room? Obviously not, oh im supposed to just manually pull slobbery shells from my mouth? All this work for such a little reward? The seeds aren't even that good as most of the flavoring is on the shell. Who enjoys eating these? I don't get it.
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Your sunflower game sounds weak tbh

Put them on one side, move to the other to crack, spit shell out, and enjoy

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Sunflower seeds are great in the Shell. You just have to get a good technique for removing the shell. I don't like just throwing them in my mouth and getting them all slimy. I eat them 1 at a time. Take a seed and bite down on the wide end, this will cause the narrow end to pop open. I then slide my fingernail between the two halves of the shell and pop them apart. That way the shell stays pretty dry and it's in your hand to be thrown into whatever garbage receptacle you're using. This is also a good way to pace yourself and not get too much salt.
 
They're definitely more for the pleasure of mucking around with them in your mouth than any actual efficiency.

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In the shell is the only way to do it. And I am not the first to say it here it's not just the snack but the activity.
 
Eat the shell like a boss

I do that with Shrimp
 
As a turk it's always funny to see other people struggle with sunflower and pumpkin seeds :D we practically grow up with them and it's the #1 snack over here.
It's actually pretty easy to open them, just place them between index Finger und thumb, and open the pointy side with your Front teeth.

Salted sunflower seeds are really the best
 
You use your teeth and tongue to turn it sideways and cut it into, almost always getting a clean split.

If I'm really tired I'll sometimes crush the.shell with the seed, spit what every is too tough to eat. Sunflower seeds without shells are terrible because the taste of the shell itself is really great

It's like eating pistachios, the extra work is part of eating it. It passes time and has you eating less.
 
like gum, i forget i'm eating so many and eventually my mouth turns into the inside of a salt mine, takes like an hour to return to any normal mouth feel. oh yea the gum, i chew until my jaws ache. lol
 
ENM89 said:
Sunflower seeds are great in the Shell. You just have to get a good technique for removing the shell. I don't like just throwing them in my mouth and getting them all slimy. I eat them 1 at a time. Take a seed and bite down on the wide end, this will cause the narrow end to pop open. I then slide my fingernail between the two halves of the shell and pop them apart. That way the shell stays pretty dry and it's in your hand to be thrown into whatever garbage receptacle you're using. This is also a good way to pace yourself and not get too much salt.
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The shell taste, both on the outside and inside, is so damn good though

Why would you do this?

Sometimes I just have the shell in my.kouth for a bit before opening it up
 
Great snack. Make a bowl out of a piece of paper and spit the shells into it. Would eat seeds more often if it didn't leave my mouth feeling raw.
 
Fat4all said:
why not just buy the seeds that are salted salted and shove them in your gobb by the fist-full?
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Saltiness isn't the same. The saltiness on the shell is ingrained, a part of the flavor. I can't just shove a bunch of seeds into.a jar of salt for a day and say it's going to have that same sort of saltiness

The shell honestly might just taste the best. First you suck on the shell, then open it up, eat the seed, and suck on the inside of the shell for a bit.

I've had sunflower seeds in bulk before. Saltiness isn't the same. Like the sugar at the bottom of a sour patches box, it's sprinkled on top, it isn't inherent to the seed
 
How the fuck do they "Unshell" seeds in the factory?

That's the real question here I'd like to know...

When I was a kid, I had a cheeky relative, and she fcuked with my head by saying...

"They have factories ( a'la sweat shops) where thousands of underpaid Chinese ladies in poor working conditions, crack open sunflower seed shells with their mouth then bag them so to be shipped to North America for us to eat and enjoy them "unshelled'"
 
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