Do you peel your apples?

[Sidhe]

in some places they sell big carrots (not baby ones) without having washed them, so they have a layer of dryed sand/soil/dirt. I peel those ones, but not the baby carrots.

Man, I love babies.

Call me crazy but I just wash the dirt/sand off them, same as I do with any veg before I eat it?

 

[Leonel]

Peal... apples?

I never thought I'd hear those words used in a sentence.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Even if I hated apple-peels, I would be too lazy to take the time to peel them off.

Anyway, the real question is whether or not you cut the core out before you eat it.

 

[Grohan]

Whoa, I've always thought that peeling apples is more common!
Yes, I always peel apples unless I don't have a peeler (ie. at school).

 

[Sidhe]

Whoa, I've always thought that peeling apples is more common!
Yes, I always peel apples unless I don't have a peeler (ie. at school).

That's true it's the archetypical peasant image of a women on a porch peeling and coring apples.

Eat the core too, full of fibre, don't eat the seeds though there mildly poisonous, although I like the flavour and sometimes eat them seperately.

 

[BCLG100]

i cant remember ever having peeled an apple-whats the point???

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I still don't understand why (those very few) people peel the apples ?

 

[Urederra]

Call me crazy but I just wash the dirt/sand off them, same as I do with any veg before I eat it?

Crazy...

Indeed, it is another option. Also valid, with its advantages (you don't lose food) and disadvantages (carrots grow underneath soil and therefore they might contain microorganisms and parasites that could be pathogenic, specially if the carrot is fertilized with 'organic' fertilizers. Or the other way around, by peeling carrots, and for that matter, also apples, you are removing the supertoxic chemicals the evil multinationals spray on them)

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Call me crazy but I just wash the dirt/sand off them, same as I do with any veg before I eat it?

well,
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
Just like me

I'm in a very singy mood tonight, for some reason

 

[Souron]

I almost always eat it with the peal on. Sometimes I do peal the apple with a knife and eat the peal seperately.

But my grandmother insists that the peal is unhealthy because it is covered with wax to perserve the apple. She sais she can tell the difference between treated and untreated apples.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

I use an apple slicer to make it easier to eat it more of it, without the risk of bitting the stem and getting a mouth full of seeds.

 

[Red Door]

You mean eating them with peel or peeling them?

I meant do you eat them with the peel? Because I know of, including myself, of people who eat cucumbers with the peel, but I've never heard of someone peeling a carrot before eating it.

 

[newfangle]

I eat the whole apple, core and all. Same with sunflower seeds, cherries, and sometimes peanuts.

 

[Sophie 378]

<snip> my grandmother insists that the peal is unhealthy because it is covered with wax to perserve the apple. She sais she can tell the difference between treated and untreated apples.

May well be true, but apples also ooze their own waxy coating to protect themselves against drying out, ethylene attack, etc.

When I eat an apple, I just give it a quick rinse under the tap (or polish it on my shirt if I'm in a real hurry). I only peel them if they're for cooking with, or if they're covered in bruises when it's easier to do surgery than eat around the yucky bits. On very rare occasions I'll peel, core and slice an apple, lay it out on a plate with bits of cheese, and give it to a hungry parent. I used to eat an apple for breakfast most days while walking to lectures - grab one from the fruit bowl, polish it on my shirt while walking down the stairs, eat most of it on the way through the grounds, and throw the core to a blackbird.

 

[Oruc]

I eat it with the peel on, although I think I liked a peeled apple better when my nana gave me one.

 

[salty mud]

What a strange question...? I eat with peel on!

 

[Godwynn]

Wash them off and bite into it.

 

[salty mud]

I eat it with the peel on, although I think I liked a peeled apple better when my nana gave me one.

I have the exact same story.

 

[Dionysius]

i never peel.

 

[brettman135]

don't bother peelin no apple