Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Phoebe Snow the singer got her stage (last) name from a character in old railroad advertisements.

bought sunflower seeds yesterday, roasted and salted. hadn't realised you're not meant to eat the shells (despite that being where the salt is), just hadn't thought about it before (or bought them unshelled like this). now i've 1 million sunflower seeds to peel and it seems like a lot of work for little reward.

To peel? The general practice is to crack one between your teeth and spit out the hull on the ground in the parking lot next to your Dodge Ram.

Who parks their Dodge Ram in right field?

yeah, if you shell them you're going to miss out on all that delicious salt. one of those snacks that take give you time to ruminate

everyone I know in China can get through 2-3 sunflower seeds per second, cracking them with their teeth and spitting out the shells, they have no interest in pre-shelled seeds

can't find the post at the moment, but I read someone's calculations on whether shelled versus unshelled pistachios are a better deal. somehow, presumably with cheap labor and shipping prices or whatever, they were approximately the same price, which is mildly boggling

sunflower seeds, that's definitely a cultural experience to spit out the shells. there's something less satisfying about the tiny seeds in a jar

plus, you can pretend to be Fox Mulder

y'all reminding me of this classic gag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGZAg3lo9A

obviously if you're just going to be eating sunflower seeds you want to crack the shells with your teeth. shelled sunflower seeds are good for putting in salads though, we usually have some in the house

ooh yeah, so good with some spring greens and vinaigrette

I have a buddy who would chew up the seeds, hulls & all... and he got some form of diverticulitis, or perforations in his intestines

(I used to be a total addict, but I would carefully crack & spit the hull)

not something I learned, but a ridiculous sunflower seed story:

I got home from school when I was probably 12 or 13 years old, saw a tupperware container of sunflower seeds on the kitchen table, and had a couple. Later, I was mentioning to my mom, hey, I think these sunflower seeds are stale, why were they on the table?

Readers, my mom had cleaned out a bird feeder from the back yard and, not sure what to do with them yet (whether they'd sprout in the compost pile or if she should just trash them), had left them sitting there. They'd been in the feeder in the back yard all winter.

I used to eat the whole seed too, but maybe because I was a pre-teen/early teen my digestive system could handle it. Probably stopped around age 14-15.

I broke the second tooth with an old filling in 6 months a few weeks back, and this was just biting into the crispier edge of a pizza. Even just the seeds shorn of their shells would worry me right now with this filed down shard that I'm not getting capped till Monday.

one thing I learned was 53% of global sunflower seed production is grown in Russia and Ukraine, so the prices will go even crazier at some point.

I’ve broken teeth chewing gum. If it’s gonna break it’s gonna break! Eat what you want!

My shameful confession: I can only eat sunflower seeds in private, because I’m afraid I’d gross out my partner. I love the salt, so pop the entire shell in my mouth, suck the salt off, and crack the shell on my back tooth—so the resulting shells are damp and messy. My mother ate sunflower seeds the normal way, and as a kid, I used to steal her shells for the salt.

I saw a friend eat peanuts shell and all, which I though was weird, but I tried it and it wasn't that bad. Now when I have shell-on peanuts I will occasionally eat one whole (maybe one or two per session).

My dentist warned me about Corn Nuts, but I didn't heed the warning

I had an addiction to sunflower seeds when they were just plain salty, but I really lost control when the David Salsa flavor came out... also the Spitz dill pickle flavor

Hmmm, might buy some today

My dentist warned me about Corn Nuts, but I didn't heed the warning

― Andy the Grasshopper

cw nsfw you think corn nuts are bad, you ever try eating corn dick?

I lost a tooth to a fried corn nut recently. Tfw you think oh was a tough one, followed by sheeit where the fuck my tooth gone. At the moment - until the dentist has fixed me I would only take soft things in my mouth .. lol

I have eaten peanuts with the shell on. Shrimp too.

Never been into sunflower seeds so I don't really have a strategy.

But I have very complicated ideas about pistachios. There are several strategies:

1. Take a nut from the bag, open it, eat it. Discard the empty shell in some sensible way. Repeat.

2. Place a quantity of nuts in a bowl. Fish out intact nuts, shell and eat them one by one. Put the empty shells back in the same bowl, so that the search for an intact nut gets harder over time.

3. Option 2, but with an additional bowl for discarding shells. You're still eating them one at a time.

4. Place a quantity of nuts in one bowl, and arrange TWO additional empty bowls near the first. Put shells in one empty bowl and (this is crucial) place the extracted nut-meat in the third bowl. Do not eat it yet, however much you may want to. Save up several. Like, 10 or 12. Then you may eat them at your leisure, either all at once or one by one, without having to wait in between.

5. Buy the already-shelled kind.

6. Some other strategy I am not aware of.

I favor option 4. I can never do options 1-3 because one individual nut is not enough reward for the work of opening it. I get the appeal of #5, but it seems like a bit of a cheat.

I have eaten peanuts with the shell on. Shrimp too.

You people are weird. You probably eat the shell on M&Ms too.

I was actually given a special bowl that's divided into two, specifically (I think) for pistachios and their shells

Pplains, I have a servant who peels my M&Ms. I am not a savage. Sheesh.

I place the M&Ms in a special bowl that's divided in two, for the brown ones and the remainder, in case David Lee Roth comes to visit.

I once watched a very drunk S African guy at a braai get through a small mountain of prawns, shells and all.

i suck the m&m shell off then spit out the chocolate seed

I have eaten kiwi fruit with the skin on after I saw someone else do it. Wasn't bad at all.

Who can be arsed peeling one?

i prefer them with the peel tbh. nice and tart

I used to cut them in half and eat with a teaspoon

I've never mastered the art of peeling a mango. I usually lose about half the fruit in the process.

Mango - it's about slicing it up first, then eating the mango off the skin, and throwing the skin out the window

It doesn't separate happily from the pit, either.

Cut the mango lengthwise along the flat edge of the pit. Do this on both sides so you have two round "halves" and the pit with some flesh around its edge. For each of the halves: cut a grid pattern into the flesh, then invert the half.

Well, I have learned something today, and at a shockingly old age at that.

Kim you forgot the last step which is to referee the argument about who gets the pit and who gets the cheeks. If you cut it right, the pit has a strip of skin which can be peeled off by pulling, and the flat sides of the seed have been shorn so they are dry enough to grip.

The general trick with a mango is that the pit is shaped like the fruit.

That Pilates needs to be capped up because it's named after Joseph Pilates, a trainer who devised the exercise.

also one of his ancestors was a famous influencer who popularised crucifixes

he was the perfect prefect

tbh I'm still not sure what Pilates is, but I haven't been anywhere near a gymnasium since school. There was a point where I thought it was some kind of US ball game.

the only way I exercise is if you trick me into doing it without me knowing. like if I went to a rap concert and you slipped a treadmill under me I might walk 3 miles and not realize.

my only fitness goal is remaining agile enough to be able to walk at a reasonable speed, so no personal trainer is required here

I liked this from Mr Pilates' wiki:

Joseph Pilates wrote several books, including Return to Life through Contrology

that's also what i plan to use

nothing more shameless than giving false hope to dead people

rip them but i'm different