Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Gasan Gusejnov]

Женя, привет!
Дискуссия знатная.
По ее следам, но вбок: от нашего стола - вашему
столу<http://lenta.ru/columns/2010/02/15/letter/>
,
гг

On 7 February 2010 21:11, Evgeny Steiner <es9 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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