# Peanut skins: a poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171 "2001-01-21T21:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/21 "2001-01-22T14:29:09Z")
Wow…cool. I am violently allergic to the red papery skin as well as the shell of the peanut, though, curiously enough, the peanuts themselves do not pose a problem. I do not eat the skins if I plan to breathe at any point in the next 24 hours, but I didn’t realize that non-allergic people gave any thought at all to peanut skins. ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/22 "2001-01-22T22:18:36Z")
Eat the skins, and if I feel the need for some more fibre that day, I also eat the shells. Eat the shells on suflower seeds, too. This isn’t usually a problem, but there was this one time in high school when I was working on a project and wound up eating about a half pound at one sitting. The next morning, I swear it felt like I was shitting a small, but very angry, kitten. ---
**Author:** ![racerx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@racerx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racerx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/23 "2001-01-22T22:28:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by False\_God \* > \*\*I swear it felt like I was shitting a small, but very angry, kitten. \*\* LOL. That is the funniest comparison I’ve ever heard. I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to swim in kittens. . .but thats another post. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/24 "2001-01-23T01:19:36Z")
**Mr. Burns** : Smithers! Hand me a spanish peanut! **Smithers** : Here you go, sir. **Mr. Burns** : _Peel it!_ ---
**Author:** ![ignatzmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b2d939/32.png) [@ignatzmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatzmouse)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/25 "2001-01-23T05:28:19Z")
If only I could but the skins without the peanuts! They’re the best part! ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/26 "2001-01-23T14:39:23Z")
When eating peanuts at a baseball game, you can crack the shells without missing any action on the field, but why take time to look down to take the paper off? Eat those suckers! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/27 "2001-01-23T15:17:17Z")
If you take the skins of the peanuts, you miss out completely on the experience of having that same skin stick to the inside of your throat, triggering a coughing fit of truly heroic proportions. Sometimes I take them off, but usually I like to live life on the edge, so I say heck with it and leave 'em on… ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/28 "2001-01-23T21:00:45Z")
Personally, I like my peanuts without the skin. However, life won’t cease to exist if some peanuts with skin make it past my defenses. I wonder, am I the only person who wonders what JDT’s take on this would be? We’d probably get some speech about the pleasures that would be missing from a skinless peanut. How women would peanuts with skins more than peanuts without skins. Not to mention the Jewish conspiracy to make sure that the skin get removed from all peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/29 "2001-01-23T22:14:59Z")
I just wanted to check in to say this thread made laugh out loud _several_ times. [sub]I will never look at kittens the same way![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BickByro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BickByro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BickByro)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/30 "2001-01-23T23:58:06Z")
1. the skins are almost the best part! i love their slightly metallic/electric taste. 2. False\_God, I, er, feel your pain. When I was 11 and living in Chicago I went off to a week-long camp in Southern Illinois and ate an apparently far-too-large quantity of shell-and-all sunflower seeds on the van ride down. Within two days I was completely, as they say, impacted. Upon my return to Chicago, after several unsuccessful enemas, I had to go to ER, where a doctor stuck his WHOLE HAND up there and pulled out a whole bunch of, well, sunflower particle board, which, having hung around for the better part of a week, emitted a stench so overwhelming that the ENTIRE ER had to clear out, leaving me lying face down on a metal table in the midst of the most humiliating AND painful experience of my life… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171.md?page=1)