Raw Potatos

Ultradog MN · Jul 22, 2012

Anyone else here like raw potatos?
I remember once in a while as a kid, coming home from school and not finding anything good in the fridge or cupboard to snack on.
So sometimes I'd just peel a potato and with a little salt eat it raw.
I still like them that way on occasion. Especially the red or gold ones as they're a little sweeter than the russets.
I'm crunching on one now as I type this.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2012

My very first paying job off the farm was for a potato farmer. Morning and night we moved irrigation lines. Used to dig a lot of them up by hand, rub the peel off and eat them. Ground was moist and cool, the raw potatoes were very refreshing.

rrlund · Jul 22, 2012

You bet I do. When the wife's peeling taters and I'm around,I always have to grab one and the salt shaker. When I was a kid I'd eat small ones right out of the ground when we were digging.

Animal · Jul 22, 2012

hey paul, how did that pipe moving work for ya? Its made an old man out of me!

john d · Jul 22, 2012

No salt needed...just peel and eat!

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2012

I tear them up..... Can't remember the last potato I peeled.... Just brush and eat...

Daryl in PA · Jul 22, 2012

love em'

SweetFeet · Jul 22, 2012

Kids and I love them. We eat them like apples... with just a little salt.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2012

I only did it one season. Wet feet, tripping over potato rows especially as they grew and got taller. Seems the pipe was 22 feet long, and seems we moved it 22 rows each time. Wasn't all that heavy being aluminum, but awkward to move and reattach. Eating the potatoes was probably the best part of the job!

Fordfarmer · Jul 22, 2012

Yep, with a little salt... but russet or gold, not red.

pete black · Jul 22, 2012

Patotes no, but i do eat other vegies right from the garden; green beans, field peas, aparagus, corn and okra.

AzPeapicker · Jul 22, 2012

Have always eaten them since I was a small kid. Still do , My son says I crazy but still enjoy today. Also when I was a kid & we were out without salt we would go up to a White Salt block for the cattle & break off apiece ., never worried about washing it off. Didn t kills us.
Don t know about kids today.

John

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2012

we used to eat the peelings while mom was trying to peel.

Fergienewbee · Jul 22, 2012

Yup; add me to the list. Usually slice them in half and sprinkle with salt. I planted some German butterballs this year. They"re a leter potatoe but I can"t wait to try them. Suppose to make great hash browns.

Larry

theoldtexasfarmer · Jul 22, 2012

Only sweet potatoes.As a kid my grandma and I when shelling corn for the chickens with the old hand cranked sheller would get hungry.She would get some small ones out of Daddys seed pile in the corn crib,break a stick off of a broken bushel basket and use the sharp edge to scrape the skin off.Many years later I tried them again,but just didnt taste the same.

caterpillar guy · Jul 22, 2012

I likem too. We as kids used to eat taters right off the top of the old cook stove at granpas. Just slice thin and drop em right on the cast iron top. Then flip them with a flipper. When done set on the table to salt and eat.

pete black · Jul 22, 2012

Patotes no, but i do eat other vegies right from the garden; green beans, field peas, aparagus, corn and okra.

pete black · Jul 22, 2012

Patotes no, but i do eat other vegies right from the garden; green beans, field peas, aparagus, corn and okra.

RayP(MI) · Jul 22, 2012

I can well remember that resetting irrigation pipes. Ours were 30 feet long, 5" in diameter, and you had to keep the sprinkler from banging into the ground. I was so short, that I had to resort to carrying the pipe a cross my chest cradled in my arms. Up and over, up and over, up and over...
We hilled the dickens outta those potatoes... What was even worse was carrying the pipes across a corn field when the corn was head high. Had to hold the pipes over your head!

RBnSC · Jul 22, 2012

I likem as well as green beans, squash,but my favorite is raw turnips.
Ron

JMOR · Jul 22, 2012

Ate 'em raw as long as I can remember. Mama always said, "that will give you a tummy ache!"...........never did. Think she just was tired of peeling.

OLWHDA · Jul 22, 2012

Used to hear this old saying, "Take an old cold tater and wait for supper." Yep I have eaten them raw with salt years ago.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 22, 2012

(quoted from post at 14:51:44 07/22/12) . I planted some German butterballs this year. They"re a leter potatoe but I can"t wait to try them. Suppose to make great hash browns.

Larry

Your tator peelin days are over.... Just brush and enjoy.....

huntingreen2day · Jul 22, 2012

Salted many a green apple with salt chips off cattle salt blocks.

krm · Jul 22, 2012

Must be some relatives of our former vice president on here with that potato spelling.

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