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metspitzer > wrote:

> 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?

Well, *I* like it! I've only had it a couple of times, but I found it a
rather light load of salt. As I eat the skin and the inside together, I
found that it flavored the inside.

OK, so I looked it up:

http://www.redlobster.com/health/nutrition/dinner.asp

900mg each. That's a lot less than lots of the entrees, but it isn't
insignificant.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA