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.
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.
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.
Mr. Burns: Smithers! Hand me a spanish peanut!
Smithers: Here you go, sir.
Mr. Burns: Peel it!
If only I could but the skins without the peanuts! They’re the best part!
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!
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…
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.
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]
the skins are almost the best part! i love their slightly metallic/electric taste.
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…