Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Donna Seifer]

In Moscow in 2006 I saw KARTOSHKA booths selling baked-in-the-skin potatoes
outside many Metro stations, including Universitetskaia.  There was often a
line as customers selected from a dozen toppings, then crowded around tall
tables to eat their spuds skins on.  So, SOME Russians, at least some
Muscovites, eat potatoes with the skin ;-)

Donna Seifer


On 2/7/10 11:29 AM, "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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