# Eating the skin of an orange

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-the-skin-of-an-orange/306990>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 5, 2005, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-the-skin-of-an-orange/306990 "2005-06-05T11:02:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-the-skin-of-an-orange/306990/41 "2005-06-09T16:21:17Z")

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> [@kniz](#):
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> Here is another use for orange peel. Take the peelings from two oranges, two cups of sugar and 1 pint of vodka. Put ingredients in a bottle and place in the refrigerator. Shake once a day for a couple weeks (or until sugar competely dissolves.) Discard peelings and sip slowly or use in mixed drink. 😉

Sip slowly?! Wuss.

😃

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-the-skin-of-an-orange/306990/42 "2005-06-10T00:28:29Z")

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> [@Gerome](#):
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> I was eating an orange not long ago, as I do upon occasion, and as usual was left with the skin after consuming the fleshy innards. Not being near a waste receptacle, I figured that if the inner was edible, the outer would follow suit, and ate the remaining skin.

Don’t try that with a prickly pear! 😉

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**Author:** ![daffyduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@daffyduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffyduck)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-the-skin-of-an-orange/306990/43 "2005-06-10T00:59:26Z")

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_Here is another use for orange peel. Take the peelings from two oranges, two cups of sugar and 1 pint of vodka. Put ingredients in a bottle and place in the refrigerator. Shake once a day for a couple weeks (or until sugar competely dissolves.) Discard peelings and sip slowly or use in mixed drink._

Or skip the vodka, press the peels, ferment and then distill the results and drink like brandy. Oh wait, the folks who make Cointreau already do that. Never mind.

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