Polly seeds

Dena Jo filted:
[nq:1]Does anyone here besides me, that is use the phrase "polly seeds" instead of "sunflower seeds"? If so, I'd be curious to know you lived when you started using that term.[/nq]
I've lived in the Los Angeles, Seattle, Silver City (New Mexico), and Phoenix areas and have never called them anything other than "sunflower seeds", since (at least before they were roasted and

[nq:1]Does anyone here besides me, that is use the phrase "polly seeds" instead of "sunflower seeds"? If so, I'd be curious to know you lived when you started using that term.[/nq]
That's a new one on me. Eaten by pollys (parrots)? Sunflowers are polyspiral?

dg (domain=ccwebster)

[nq:1]Does anyone here besides me, that is use the phrase "polly seeds" instead of "sunflower seeds"? If so, I'd be curious to know you lived when you started using that term.[/nq]
I feel fairly comfortable reassuring you that anybody learning that term would do so while living.
Good news! Google can help you access the 46 other people suffering from that same "polly seeds" delusion. I'm j

[nq:1]Does anyone here besides me, that is use the phrase "polly seeds" instead of "sunflower seeds"? If so, I'd be curious to know you lived when you started using that term.[/nq]
I lived in Oxford. This was in late January 2005.

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]I've lived in the Los Angeles, Seattle, Silver City (New Mexico), and Phoenix areas and have never called them anything ... a jar labelled "polly seeds", and I always have to ask what is meant when someone else uses the term..r[/nq]
IIRC, in Dr. Zhivago, a Russian soldier at a train station was chain eating sunflower seeds by inserting them in one side of his cheek and ejecting the husk

[nq:2]I've lived in the Los Angeles, Seattle, Silver City (New ... ask what is meant when someone else uses the term..r[/nq]
[nq:1]IIRC, in Dr. Zhivago, a Russian soldier at a train station was chain eating sunflower seeds by inserting them in ... physical skill I've always desired yet never accomplished, like blowing smoke rings or whistling with fingers in my mouth. ...[/nq]
Finches are

Does anyone here besides me, that is use the phrase "polly seeds" instead of "sunflower seeds"? If so, I'd be curious to know you lived when you started using that term.
Is it "polly seeds" or "poly seeds"?. I am guessing that usage spread from New York City. Is there a term that sounds like that in another language? What we have so far is a possible favorite food of parrots.
Richard Maure

[nq:1]Does anyone here besides me, that is use the phrase "polly seeds" instead of "sunflower seeds"? If so, ... using that term. Is it "polly seeds" or "poly seeds"?. I am guessing that usage spread from New York City.[/nq]
Say what? Sunflower seeds are called sunflower seeds in New York (LCIA) IME. Polly seeds might refer to the seeds of maple trees, which can be used to fashion polly

[nq:1]Say what? Sunflower seeds are called sunflower seeds in New York (LCIA) IME.[/nq]
Oh.
When I was growing up, everyone in my family called them polly seeds. After we moved to L.A., we all switched to calling them sunflower seeds. I'd always assumed it was a New York, maybe even a Brooklyn, thing.
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Dena Jo
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[nq:2]IIRC, in Dr. Zhivago, a Russian soldier at a train ... smoke rings or whistling with fingers in my mouth. ...[/nq]
[nq:1]Finches are good at this also.[/nq]
Yes, isn't that amazing? How do they do that?

John Varela
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