Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Tatiana Filimonova]

I think Michele offered a very good explanation. It was dangerous to eat
unpeeled potatoes because of fertilizers, rot, and dirt. If I am not
mistaken Victor Astafiev as well as some Gulag authors wrote about people
getting severe food poisoning because of eating unpeeled potatoes (in the
army and the camps respectively).

Tatiana

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