Question for the cooks out there,
KG, please pay attention!

"The Warden" asks if there is a reason to cut the eyes out of potatoes, or is it just traditional? (No real reason)?

Dull evening here at the casa!

All the ones I've peeled the last couple of
decades has come right off during the
peeing process. What few I have right now
have little sprouts coming from the eyes, but
I just push/rub em off before peeling and
there's no problem

Plant em in the garden. Other than that, I have no idea.

That is an excellent question! I have been doing that for years, figuring they were bad and tough. They most likely have the most nutritional value lol

They are highly toxic

Common knowledge…

I'll be you make your wife shave her pouzzy to avoid toxicity there as well lol

Who the hell likes a 70’s mugambabush muff?

Lol

The potato is part of the nightshade family and the foliage of that family is generally very toxic.

Only very sick people! hehehehe

BTW Mark, I was just joking.

😂😂😂

I take them out simply to avoid any specs or discoloration in whatever you’re making. They won’t hurt you.

What Happens if Eating Potatoes with Eyes?

If you eat sprouted potatoes in low consumption doses, excess glycoalkaloids often lead to vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. When consumed in larger amounts, they can cause low blood pressure, rapid pulse, fever, headache and even death in some cases.

Additionally, a few small studies have shown that eating sprouted potatoes during pregnancy can increase the risk of birth defects. Therefore, pregnant women should avoid eating sprouted potatoes completely.

Can You Eat Potatoes with Eyes?

😂

“Eyes” and “sprouted [bleep] growing off of a potato” that’s been in the cupboard for a month are completely different.

I was told by the old ones they can make you sick, same with tomato plant... I never experimented, just take them off and eat the potato, I only throw away a potato if it's getting mushy and dried out.

Kent

Cut them out

Just add anchovy paste and ivermectin. Good to go.

Or grow a gut that can handle basic natural growths.

Be shiur to whisper in a corn field, the ears you know.

I wouldn’t back down from one!

Would you back down from this?

HAHAHA, most likely not, but I would close my eyes and dream of better days ahead!

I routinely bake a potato, eat the innards and then the skin. I’m sure folks do here as well.

Never removed any “eyes” first

Potato genital warts…

“Clean Machine” - Varmintguy

If the eyes are pretty big, they usually get removed, mostly because my bride won't eat them.

Big question is - Who the heck peels potatoes? Haven't done that for decades in this house. Mashed, hashbrowns, fried, baked or in tater salad, the skin stays on.

Depends on type, and crop, of any given potato.

For me, any yellow/Yukon/Gold or this skinned waxy potato, skin stays on.

I don’t leave fuggin BARK on an Idaho or Russet in a whipped potato. Nor a potato salad. Nor just about any application except maybe baked and stuffed.

Red bliss are thin skinned potatoes and go in same applications as the yellows.

Typically, only the eyes are removed, we don't care all that much for nekkid taters.

JFC… it’s a Fugkin potatoe already. This [bleep] ain’t that hard. Same stupid fugks that debate whether a .308 kills better than a .30-06

Taste like dirt!

Lol

I’m not sure why other than that especially after
washing them.

The eyes are the only low carb part on a tater…….

People eating potato peels.😂😂😂😂

Paused to tell of a guy at work who always ate alone.
Guys wondered why, he was a good fellow.

One day one snuck around to watch him. It was during the depression,
And this guy was eating peels, he left the potato for his family.
Only a broke ass, desperate MFer ate potato peels during the most
desperate times.

Now people get all snooty and crap about they eat the damn things.


Pap used to make fun of picnics too.

"All my life I ate in the house and shït in the yard. Now days people
with perfectly nice homes [bleep] in the house and eat in the yard!"

“Potato skins” are actually a thing on menus

😂😂😂😂😂😂
Might be a bassackward Redneck, but I knew that!
Have even had them, Jacketed Potatoes were something we ate
in the fall. All those little taters you dug up had to be eaten, and
the ladies weren't going to peel them. Sometimes they are fine,
others they taste like dirt.

Why do we remove potato eyes?
Toxins. Solanine and chaconine, two types of natural toxins known as glycoalkaloids, are present in potato plants. They're most concentrated in the eyes, sprouts, and skin, but not the rest of the potato. These compounds are toxic to humans and can lead to a headache, vomiting, and other digestive symptoms.Dec 20, 2020
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Sprouted Potatoes and Food Safety - The Spruce Eats

A .30-06 kills better than a .308 heheheh