Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Drew S]

And it sure beats the Gascon mailing list I'm on, where over 50% of the discussions involve impassioned arguments that Gascon is a completely separate language in its own right, and NOT a dialect of a larger 'Occitan' language that includes Lengadocian, Provençal, Lemosin and Auvernhat, which is claimed to be an artificial and imperialistic assertion by Occitan 'nationalists' (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz).

Cultural ramifications for the presence or absence of skin on potatoes is a breath of fresh air in my world.

Andrew Swearingen
Centre for Romance Linguistics
Department of Medieval and Modern Languages
University of Oxford


On 07.02.2010, at 19:33, Toman, Jindrich wrote:

> Oh, this is nothing in comparison to the opera discussion we had a few years ago!
> J.
> 
> 
> On 2/7/10 2:29 PM, "Michele A. Berdy" <maberdy at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> Anybody else find this conversation a bit odd (at least in the passion
>> that
>> people are putting into potato skins)?
> 
> Actually, I was thinking about how much I loved this list. I never knew that
> the question of peeling vegetable and fruit skins was so interesting!
> 
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