Cheri wrote:
> "Hank Rogers" > wrote in message
> news
>> Brice wrote:
>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:06:44 -0400, wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:04:05 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2018-10-21 3:59 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> 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're probably basing this on information from the 50s. Or not even
>>> that. Potato skins, especially from organic potatoes are good for you.
>>>
>>> How do you go through life with so much misinformation and ignorance?
>>> It's amazing that you're still alive.
>>>
>>
>> There you have it ... Popeye has declared potatoes are poisonous.
>> You'll die if yoose don't peel them.
>>
>> I'm just going to quite eating them. They'll always remind me of a
>> sawed of sailor, toting 100lb crates of potatoes up ladders through
>> several decks of a rotting old navy tub.
>
>
> God knows how many sailors he killed with his cooking, the ones that
> survived were probably awarded a purple heart. ;-)
>
> Cheri

I don't know if he killed any, but I bet quite a few went on sick call
with a bellyache or diarrhea.