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Julie Bove[_2_]

"graham" > wrote in message
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> On 27/12/2015 3:08 PM, wrote:
>> On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 3:51:13 PM UTC-6, Doris Night wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:28:47 -0800 (PST), "
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of the first things I learned to do in the kitchen was
>>>> peel potatoes. UGH! I hated that job as I simply couldn't
>>>> peel them without wasting most of the potato.
>>>
>>> My simple solution to that problem is that I never peel potatoes. I
>>> tell myself that all of the nutrients and fiber are in the skin.
>>>
>>> Doris
>>>
>>>
>> That's true, but I can't remember my mother ever cooking a
>> potato dish with the peelings still on. But when I make
>> potato salad the peelings are left on. Of course the
>> 'tater has been well scrubbed.
>>
> My father would never eat unpeeled potatoes, even "new" potatoes, which he
> would patiently scrape. If he was served unpeeled potatoes in a
> restaurant, he called them "piggy tates". That was what they fed to the
> pigs when he was a child.
> Graham

People are funny like that. My mom always considered bread as poison but
she did make exceptions and we had it occasionally as toast or meatloaf
sandwiches on the road. And yet she served pizza, pretzels, biscuits,
cornbread and was a big cereal pusher.