Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[John Langran]

If you want a UK opinion on this, we always thought that potato skins were 
an American delicacy
JL


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From: "Michele A. Berdy" <maberdy at GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?


>> 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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