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[loaf of bread]

Why would I want to spit my food out like a FUCKING SAVAGE

Eat your seeds with a fork and knife like a civil being

 

[Timedog]

I crack the shells in my mouth by putting them n the groove of my teeth in a very specific orientation then slowly applying force. Then I manuever the seed out using my tongue. Believe me, I'm very, very skilled with my mouth.

 

[spawnsniper]

Pumpkin seeds and eat the shell..fin

 

[Nikodemos]

I crack the shells in my mouth by putting them n the groove of my teeth in a very specific orientation then slowly applying force. Then I manuever the seed out using my tongue. Believe me, I'm very, very skilled with my mouth.

Though after about half a bag (the large 300g ones) your tongue gets scraped raw and you need about a day for the soreness to subside.

 

[ENM89]

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

You get some of the salt from the shell still! The inside of the shell doesn't have a different flavour... does it?

 

[arigato]

fuck that shit, eat the whole bag

This is how I felt when I ate almost a whole bag of Bobs red mill pumpkin seed deliciousness. Oh my, they tasted so surprisingly fresh and good. Pumpkin seeds along with black walnuts are my favorite crunchy snacks. They're so versatile too in how you can season them.

 

[Extra Sauce]

I feel bad for the staff who has to clean up that shit.

Baseball players why you do this.

Also how did this thread get this far without:

 

[water_wendi]

My advice is to get good sunflower seeds. David and Frito-Lay ones are the worst. Easily dollar store quality. The shells splinter and theres higher amounts of bad seeds. i havent had seeds in a while so things may have changed but Spitz and Jim Beam were the best i had found.

 

[PeskyToaster]

I just eat the entire thing, shells and all cause I ain't a bitch.


Pumpkin seeds are the best though.

 

[ElNino]

I feel bad for the staff who has to clean up that shit.

Baseball players why you do this.

Seeds are a lot easier to cleanup than tobacco stains. I love my seeds when I'm playing ball, but I don't eat them anywhere else. I shove a bunch in my mouth at once and spit the shells out one at a time. My son loves them as well, but likes to eat them in his room... which I'm trying to discourage since they end up all over the place.

 

[CrimsonSquall]

Friend was a baseball player. Let me have some of his favorite snack and boy was it delicious. Wasn't till I chewed sucked and swallowed about 30 of those bitches before my pal leaned over and said "hey Crimson u know u gone get ulcers if u swallow the shells right?"

Learned my lesson well after that day in 7th grade

 

[M-PG71C]

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

This. So much. Eating sunflower seeds requires work but man, it is so damn good. I grew up on it so I love them to death.

 

[bionic77]

They're definitely more for the pleasure of mucking around with them in your mouth than any actual efficiency.

This GIF should have been the first post.

 

[SDCowboy]

I eat the shell and the seed.

Yep, that's how I did when I was a kid. I just ate the shell too. I wouldn't eat them that way now, though. lol

 

[Glix]

You open them in your mouth and store the shells in your cheek. When you have a bunch built up you spit them all out into a cup or whatever.

 

[Jzero]

I only like licking the shell, i don't really care about the seed.

 

[Undefined]

Unshelled means they still have their shells on wtf? Thats too confusing.
Thats like saying I keep myself warm on my bed by uncovering myself with my blanket.

 

[ElNino]

Unshelled means they still have their shells on wtf? Thats too confusing.
Thats like saying I keep myself warm on my bed by uncovering myself with my blanket.

So you've never had salted/flavoured sunflower seeds before then? You put them in your mouth with the shell on (preferable in a large quantity), and then bite open the shell and remove the seed. You eat the seed, and spit out the opened shell.

It sounds more difficult than it really is, but I guess 30+ years of practice might skew my opinion on the matter.

 

[ReAxion]

seed lover here.

David Jumbo ONLY

 

[Darth Pinche]

Dooooode! What's wrong with you?? shelled sunflower seeds are a lifestyle for me and for many others!

My wife is Persian and she can shell and eat those seeds so easily. I can NEVER get those damn things open. She always just looks and says "What is wrong with you?" Too funny!

 

[Leynos]

I'm with you, OP. Shell-on-sunflowers are such a pain in the ass. Far too much work for so little reward. It's either pre-shelled sunflower seeds, or not at all.

 

[Camwi]

I feel bad for the staff who has to clean up that shit.

Baseball players why you do this.

Also how did this thread get this far without:

Thank you! Beat me to it.

 

[MrPressStart]

Yup, same with Pecans. Do that shit in your mouth, swallow the seed, spit out the shell.

Just got to git good.

Spoiler

Scrub

As other have said, you can eat the shell too, although I can't imagine that being fantastic for your digestive system.

I hope you are joking, but if your not.. .you have some hard damn teeth to break a pecan shell open.

 

[RedNalgene]

Eating sunflower seeds at a baseball game (along with a huge ass beer) is the way you do summer time.