Like, I get comments from people telling me it’s weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.

  • Frater MusEnglish
    39•1 year ago

    Why would you ever want to peel them?

    I used to eat the skins until my kidney stone went to the lab. No more skins or spinach for me. :-( Kidney stone pain is an amazingly-effective incentive for dietary change.

    • @foggy
      49•1 year ago

      I was a bartender for a bit.

      It’s normal for coworkers to complain about picky/annoying guests.

      A coworker came up to me:

      Jfc guy said he wanted a lot of lemon with his Pepsi, I gave him 3, he said he wants like a whole lemon worth of slices wtf

      Me: Was he… Old?

      Yeah…?

      Me: kidney stones. That mans probably had a few, and he’s done with em. Give him a sidecar of fresh lemon juice (something we had on hand), you’ll make his day.

      • @sblanziko
        8•1 year ago

        What does lemon do to kidney stones?

          • Dr. BluefallEnglish
            11•1 year ago

            A quick bit of research shows that citric acid prevents kidney stones from forming, actually.

            • @foggy
              3•1 year ago

              I assumed it was common knowledge but yeah, y’all. If you wanna avoid kidney stones, lemon juice is the ticket.

            • Archmage Azor
              1•1 year ago

              I’m gonna go chug one of those lemon juice bottles

          • @sblanziko
            3•1 year ago

            Yes, maybe, if you put kidney stones directly in lemon juice, but kidneys filter blood, not the content of our stomach. Maybe it makes the blood more acidic…? Not a doctor but I doubt it can be that effective