How’s this for mundane? I recently discovered the joy of eating roasted, in the shell, salted pumpkin seeds. My husband eats them shell and all, while I crack them like sunflower seeds and only eat the actual seed inside.
What say you? Eat the shell or not? I shudder to think of those shells working their way through your digestive system. Plus, they’re gross with the shells on. Vote!
Zette
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I eat the shells. They have that chewy, beef jerky allure even though the do taste crappy. It doesn’t seem worth the work to get at the seed by itself.
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yeah, I eat the shell, too. Gross and fibery, I know, but it is so much trouble to get the little tiny seed out! I’d probably be just as happy to suck on 'em awhile and then spit out the soggy saltfree pulp, but that’s really not a pretty picture either. At least with the shells in my intestines, I can keep it to myself.
Place where I worked last had all the guys in the office addicted to them. They carried little spit cups around with them and munched on the seeds and then spit out the shells into the cups. Gross, but not as gross as chewing tobacco, I guess!
If I roast em myself (acorn squash seeds too), I eat the shell and all. You can also buy hulled ones, raw or roasted, that are meatier than the Halloween punkin type.
Shells! Not just pumpkin seeds, either. My favorite watering hole used to set out buckets of free peanuts (no more, due to rowdy peanut battles), and half the time, they’d go down whole as well - beer and salty whole peanuts, my diet for the last year of college. yum.
I eat the shells. I roast them after we carve our jack-o-lanterns. Lots of different ways. Salt, Cajun Spice and Sugar and Cinnamon are our favorites. I brought some into work and a few of my co-workers had never heard of eating pumpkin seeds, they looked at me like I was from Mars or something.
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No shells. I go to Morrow’s Nut House and buy a bag already roasted and salted. They call them “pepitas” there because they can’t charge you an arm and a leg if they’re called “pumpkin seeds”.
I used to eat pumpkin seeds all the time as a child, probably because we had a pumpkin patch in the back yard. They’re great, but I must say, I never knew you could shell them. Besides, I think part of the taste comes from the shells.