On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:59:30 -0400, Goomba >
wrote:

>sf wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:35:00 -0400, Goomba >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My grandmother was in service to the
>>> Doubleday family on LI, so she may have learned this trick then?
>>
>> I think it's common sense.
>>
>Its common sense to use a fork to open up a potato with?? Or do you mean
> the squeeze part?

The using a fork and puncturing part (I'm old enough to remember
splitting english muffins with a fork)... squeezing the potato is what
you do when you want fluffy insides all poofed up high.

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