"metspitzer" > wrote in message
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>I am a big fan of eating a baked potato skin and all.
>
> One of my favorite restaurants is Red Lobster, but I don't eat their
> potato skins. They are loaded with salt.
>
> The salt doesn't seem to change the flavor of the potato inside for
> me.
>
> Anyone think loading the outside of a potato with salt changes
> anything?
>
Sure, the salt makes the potato taste salty, like how salt makes pretzels
taste salty. Some produce sections sell "Salt Potatoes", a five pound sack
of spuds that also contains a bag of salt for adding to the potato boiling
water. Some folks like salty potaotes, just like some like lots of salt on
fries.