"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Julie Bove wrote:
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>> My mom always peeled them as my dad had a fear of the peels.
>
> He feared potato peels?

Yes. He thought they were poison. That was one of his faults. He would
read something or hear something and get it wrong. But it would stick in
his mind and there was no convincing him otherwise. I think the information
he had gotten was about green skins and not to buy potatoes with green on
them.

His mom was the same way. Heard about someone dying from home canned green
beans so she always cooked green beans to mush to protect us.