22 shots for a dollar

Walk the streets of Armenia and Karabakh and you will see that the set price for a shot is 25 dram, which amounts to under 5 cents a for a shotglass of sermuchka. Never had sermuchka? Its what they call sunflower seed here on the streets. Actually it works for just about any kind of seed and some of the enterprising vendors have more than one kind of seed... Salted and unsalted sunflower is always 25 dram. Pumpkin (called spitak, or white) seed is a fancy 50 dram a shot. Ajar (beechwood) seed is much less common with its three cornered brown shell, but worth the higher price also. Some people use much bigger glasses for a higher price, but that is uncommon, the regular shotglass is the street standard. Back in 95 there was only salted sunflower and no other choice. I don't know if this tradition is from Soviet times, but now it is hard to walk more than one minute without finding seed for sale. I also don't know if any other of the surrounding countries have this, but it is just perfectly fitting for Armenia I think.