Freewrite Prompt: Sunflower Seeds

I laughed when I saw today's prompt and though I am kind of late, I am still writing about it because it stirred up an old memory.

My friends and my family used to really like this snack. We have it all year round and can be found in different seasoning though the most common one would be just salted. We call it "Kuaci" here, I think it originated from the Chinese word but everyone seems to call it the same here.

My family like to chat while munching some sunflower seeds. I remember when I was young, I didn't know how to crack the shell open to get the seed out from within, so my dad would crack open one by one and I only had to eat.

When I grew older, I learnt that it was fun to try to open them by myself. In the beginning, I failed and part of the seed was wasted because I chewed and smashed the shell together with the seed. Soon, I realized that I should do it at a certain angle and the tongue helped to get the seed out. It was such an achievement.

My friends came out with something mischievous as we enjoy this snack of sunflower seeds. They came out with a competition of disposing the shells of the sunflower seeds. We all have to try to spit as far as we can and we really measured to find out the winner. It was seriously hilarious and a bit foolish now, with some people accidentally spitted their saliva, eeeeww! We must have looked like a bunch of kiddos with nothing better to do. Needless to say, I never win because I would be sitting in one corner, laughing at them. After that, whoever participated in the game had to do serious clean up at the porch.

Sunflower seeds, still sound like a good snack to me. But I may get those that had been peeled nicely these days, me being a lazybone now. I used to have a hard time to believe that Kuaci comes from the sunflowers. I couldn't believe I could eat the seeds from the sunflowers, you see. I thought it was just a myth or someone trying to con me, but seems like it was nothing but the whole truth.

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Freewrite is a prompt writing initiated by @mariannewest and @improv to write a free-flow post without correcting or editing. I checked out her post to really get what it is before I jumped on the bandwagon. Basically, there is no right or wrong, just let the mind and fingers do their work, to find our creative self and let it come out of us.

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