Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Elena Ostrovskaya]

Oh, yeah, they are baked-in-the skin as well as sold in them. But you do not
have to actually eat it, I mean the skin, when you buy it. So, to my
knowledge, most people do not:) Anyway, some of us do, I second that. And
baked potatoes are almost always served and very often eaten in their skins.
As for peeling potatoes, by the way, both the army and the prison/camp
normally have a special position for people who do it. For some people in
the camps it was an ultimate goal to get it and thus be close to food and
far from the outdoor work. Works pretty in the same way in the army, as far
as I know. So this is another side to the tradition of peeling potatoes:)

Elena Ostrovskaya

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Donna Seifer <donna.seifer at comcast.net>wrote:

> 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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