> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:04:05 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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>>On 2018-10-21 3:59 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>>>> We never have peeled the potatoes either. I was raised that way
>>>> and it's what we're used to.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> We prefer russets over most other types of potatoes, depending on the
>>> intended use. Unless they're baked, we always peel potatoes. Sheer
>>> laziness not to.
>>
>>It's not laziness. Some potato treatments are better with the skins on.
>>New potatoes are usually eaten skin and all. The best garlic mashed
>>potatoes I have had are made with red potatoes cooked and mashed with
>>the skins. Fresh cut fries are good with skins on. Home fries are good
>>with the skin on. Unless the skins are thick and dirty there is no real
>>need to peel them.
>
> Potatoes being in the nightshade family are high in solanine, a toxin,
> concentrated in the skin and especially the eyes. I enjoy crispy
> baked potato skin but I'm careful to de-eye and I don't eat more than
> one at a sitting... and I never ordered baked potatoes at restaurants,
> they are old and barely washed.
> For all other uses I peel and de-eye potatoes... there is no way to
> tell by looking what the level of solanine is. Be sure to peel
> potatoes if there is any green tinge, which is pretty much present in
> any stupidmarket spuds as they are packaged in clear plastic bags, are
> generally stored at warm temperature and are usually old.
> Not peeling potatoes is indicative of Laziness and Stupidity:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato


You get all your convoluted facts from Wiki obviously. I've been eating
potato skins for at least 70 years, all kinds, as have generations of my
family before me, but hey...I will put on Wiki that peeled potatoes will
kill you, especially if mixed with Crystal Palace and you can cite it as
fact, moron.


Cheri