I know I have seen this before in movies/TV, a character will be eating whole in shell peanuts from a bag and apparently chewing them up whole?
The most recent place I have seen this is the opening scenes of the recent Lone Ranger movie, two characters eating whole in shell peanuts like they are popcorn.
Is this something people do?
My mom used to, and I do sometimes if they are roasted in the shell and are salted. I like the really over-roasted ones shell and all 
I have seen it, same way with sunflower seeds, I never eat them. I do eat the pumkin seed whole.
I always thought this was normal, until I see people who meticulously bust them open and spit out the shell nicely. For sunflower, I should say that I try to swallow them, but that stuff builds up, so something you gotta spit out a wad.
I can eat edamame pods and shrimp tails, although I don’t always.
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I’ll do it sometimes, but it’s definitely a little unusual.
My husband has a bowl of peanuts in the shell on his desk at work, and he says he eats them whole. I can’t even imagine. I think I would choke.
About half the time I eat peanuts I eat them with the shells.
If they didn’t expect you to eat the shell, why is it salted?
I think its a matter of taste. Sme people like it, others don’t. About half of the pumpkin seeds i eat are with shells.
When peanuts are deep fried, you eat them shell and all. Pretty tasty, and very high in fiber.
For dry roasted, it sounds disgusting, and I eat shrimp tails all the time. OTOH, I think you can eat boiled peanuts whole, but it’s been so long since I had any, I can’t remember. I’ve tried eating unshelled sunflower seeds whole, but I couldn’t do it; it’s just bad.
Southerners: what do you do with boiled peanuts? They’re not fully dried when cooked, so does that mean that the shell is softer? I must confess that I heard about these things not too long ago.
I never shell peanuts. I eat them with the shells on by the handful. love the crunch and the salt … and the fiber.
When I’ve had boiled peanuts down south, I miss the that crunch.
Cecil Adams discusses the danger of intestinal blockage. I’m not sure how much you’d have to eat to worry about it.
They immerse the whole peanut and shell in salted water in order to salt the peanuts. The shells also get salted as a by-product. See this Staff Report by Una.
I used to…until I read that Cecil Adams story…and then I stopped.
I thought “roughage” was good…but apparently not always.
I usually shell 'em in my mouth and spit the shells out, same as (I think) most people do for sunflower seeds. Then you get the briny flavor of the shell without trying to swallow what feels like shredded cardboard.
I used to eat salted-in-the-shell peanuts whole. I grew up eating them that way. I discovered that if you eat too many of them you experience a phenomenon that would best be described as anal splinters :eek:.
I knew a girl in high school who ate everything whole. An apple and its core, an egg and its shell, meat or fish with small bones, etc. And probably peanuts and shells.
When peanuts are taken out of the shell there is almost no salt detected on them.
I’ve eaten entire bags of peanuts with the shells at one sitting zillions of times and never had a problem.
You shell them and drop them into a bottle of RC Cola, but it has to be those really long bottles from the 70s.