> > I eat sunflower seeds. They're good. What I don't understand is the sunflower seeds/chewing gum analogy. You don't chew sunflower seeds and then spit them out. You don't even keep them in your mouth being chewed into a huge lump for hours. You just get some seeds and eat them in the normal fashion.
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> Sunflower seeds generally fall into the "flavored things you keep in your mouth without swallowing" category. You don't necessarily CHEW sunflower seeds like you can chewing gum, but you still have to spit them out when they lose their flavor.

That's what I needed clarification about. I can't believe anybody chewing or sucking sunflower seeds and then spitting them out. That's bizarre. Like I said, I always thought of sunflower seeds as a food which was consumed in the normal fashion: put some in your mouth, chew them up until they're swallowable, and then swallow them.

Is this seed-spitting thing just something *you* do, or is this the way sunflower seeds are eaten in America? Either way, it's utterly weird.