On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:36:00 -0400, James Silverton
> wrote:

>On 9/17/2011 4:17 PM, Chemo the Clown wrote:
>> On Sep 17, 1:13 pm, Jerry > wrote:
>>> On Sep 17, 3:58 pm, Helpful > wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> For the really hard stuff you can always put them in a plastic bag and
>>>> hit them with the bottom of a small saucepan.
>>>
>>> Put some poppy seeds on an oak board and hit them with a hammer.
>>> Mostly, you will end up with whole seeds embedded in the wood. They
>>> will perforate a plastic bag.
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>> --
>>> Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
>>> get.
>>
>> Put them on an anvil.
>
>I wonder why you would grind poppy seeds? They seem small enough to me.

A paste is made from poppy seeds for baked goods, called muhn, there
are grinders made for the specific purpose of grinding poppy seeds,
they look somewhat like e meat grinder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_seed