is infusing sunflower seeds with caffeine the next fad ?

[renovation]

a South Dakota company thinks it's what america needs .
The product, Sumseeds, has been in development for about a year. The seeds are grown in North Dakota and Kansas and shipped to the company's Willow Lake plant, where caffeine, taurine, lysine and ginseng are added.


The 3.5-ounce bags sell for $1.99, about twice the price of normal sunflower seeds. The company is working to get them into nationwide distribution.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8P636P00.html
i can see it now . school kids spitting all over the place . in school halls littered with wet sunflower shells . and a whole generation of people carrying paper cups around to spit there shells into . :puke:

[Maarchk]

Yeah thats kinda nasty. Thats like a farmers habit or a baseball players habit along with scratching one's self. besides, if you put caffeine in sunflower seeds, wont the grow up to be shorter?

[zippyjuan]

All the various caffine products and energy drinks can't be good for you in the long run- from sodas to Starbucks. I see people in their early 20s with hand tremmors already (although of course I can have no way of knowing the cause).

[Paymaster]

C'mon... it doesn't cause cancer... so it's OK by me!

By the way, we already have caffeinated soap (http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5a65/) and caffeinated lip balm (http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/78e4/) so why not sunflower seeds?