# Pumpkin Seeds **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838 "2000-01-17T21:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/1 "2000-01-17T21:45:00Z")
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 * * * Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high. Not enough and you’re gonna die… [Click here for some GOOD news for a change](http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Sanews5.html)[Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/2 "2000-01-17T21:49:00Z")
i like em both ways… it all depends on how energetic i am at the time. * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/3 "2000-01-17T21:52:00Z")
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. * * * “It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.” ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/4 "2000-01-17T21:57:00Z")
I eat the shells. Breaking each one open would be _so_ much work for such a tiny little seed. * * * _It is too clear, and so it is hard to see._ ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/5 "2000-01-17T22:02:00Z")
## 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. Stop Thinking That About Me!! ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/6 "2000-01-17T22:29:00Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/7 "2000-01-17T22:31:00Z")
I’m a shell eater, too. It is definately too much work to start shelling them (that’s why I eat the already shelled sunflower seeds, too). ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/8 "2000-01-18T00:24:00Z")
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. Raw ones are supposedly good for male vavavoom ! ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/9 "2000-01-18T02:31:00Z")
Shells. Punkin seeds…yum. * * * “…being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.” ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/10 "2000-01-18T02:33:00Z")
I like roasting them with seasoning salts or a mix of spices. My vote goes for shell and all… nice and crunchy. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![saraam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@saraam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saraam)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/11 "2000-01-18T02:58:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/12 "2000-01-18T03:03:00Z")
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. * * * If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun. -Benjamin Franklin ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/13 "2000-01-18T04:14:00Z")
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”. * * * “…send lawyers, guns, and money…” ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/14 "2000-01-18T04:21:00Z")
Shells. Think of them as roughage. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/15 "2000-01-18T05:05:00Z")
Are pumpkin seeds as full of fat as sunflower seeds? I love sunflower seeds but WAY too much fat. BTW it’s fun to plant sunflowers and watch the squirrels swinging from them to get the seeds. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/16 "2000-01-18T05:12:00Z")
ALL seeds and nuts have way too much fat if you read Dr. Dean Ornish. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/17 "2000-01-18T06:10:00Z")
My vote goes to eating the shells too. I love how they make your mouth pucker from all that salt. Yum! * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pumpkin-seeds/12838/18 "2000-01-18T06:24:00Z")
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.