Oracle wrote:I love Pasatempo (salted dry roasted pumpkin seeds) ...
But lately I have become so lazy to do the nifty crack between the teeth and eat the nut inside, that I just chew and swallow the whole lot ... seed pod and all ....
Is this the height of bad manners or do others cheat this way?
It just goes to show what an amateur Pasetempo eater you are.!
If you get the ones sold in Turkish shops which are lightly salted and roasted and not the silly white ones that they sell in non Turkish shops, which tends to break and fall apart, you should be able to hold the rounded end with your fingers while you work on the sharp end with your front incisors cracking along the edge of the seed about ten times in the space of 2 seconds, and then with slight pressure on the last crack with your teeth, the seed opens like a clam in which with your tongue, you pull it into your mouth, much like a chameleon with an insect. The whole thing takes few seconds . Eating the shell is likely to give you indigestion if you do too much at one time, so put your tongue into good use and start pulling the kernels out of it's shells.