Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Evgeny Steiner]

To peel or not to peel...
The subject is amusing - more so than the Big-Endian / Little-Endians
disputes.

ES

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Drew S <dwswear at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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