"Cheri" > wrote:

> > wrote
>> Dave Smith > wrote:
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:

>>>>> We never have peeled the potatoes either. I was raised that
>>>>> way and it's what we're used to.

>>>> We prefer russets over most other types of potatoes, depending
>>>> on the intended use. Unless they're baked, we always peel
>>>> potatoes. Sheer laziness not to.
>>>
>>> It's not laziness. Some potato treatments are better with the
>>> skins on. New potatoes are usually eaten skin and all. The best
>>> garlic mashed potatoes I have had are made with red potatoes
>>> cooked and mashed with the skins. Fresh cut fries are good with
>>> skins on. Home fries are good with the skin on. Unless the
>>> skins are thick and dirty there is no real need to peel them.
>>
>> Potatoes being in the nightshade family are high in solanine, a
>> toxin, concentrated in the skin and especially the eyes. I enjoy
>> crispy baked potato skin but I'm careful to de-eye and I don't
>> eat more than one at a sitting... and I never ordered baked
>> potatoes at restaurants, they are old and barely washed. For all
>> other uses I peel and de-eye potatoes... there is no way to tell
>> by looking what the level of solanine is. Be sure to peel
>> potatoes if there is any green tinge, which is pretty much
>> present in any stupidmarket spuds as they are packaged in clear
>> plastic bags, are generally stored at warm temperature and are
>> usually old. Not peeling potatoes is indicative of Laziness and
>> Stupidity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
>
> You get all your convoluted facts from Wiki obviously. I've been
> eating potato skins for at least 70 years, all kinds, as have
> generations of my family before me, but hey...I will put on Wiki
> that peeled potatoes will kill you, especially if mixed with
> Crystal Palace and you can cite it as fact, moron.

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