# Peanut skins: a poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171 "2001-01-21T21:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/1 "2001-01-21T21:51:54Z")
When you get peanuts in the shell, do you eat the papery red “skin” around the nut? Or do you toss that with the shells? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/2 "2001-01-21T22:11:33Z")
Toss it. Why would you eat it? That’d be like eating the whitish stuff under the orange peel. _yuck face_ ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/3 "2001-01-21T22:13:13Z")
I like to eat the shells and give the peanuts away. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/4 "2001-01-21T22:14:09Z")
I eat it. The shell slows me down enough. I don’t need any other impediments. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/5 "2001-01-21T22:16:35Z")
About half of each. Also, if the skins seem to be carrying a good amount of salt, that will encourage me to eat them. (That IS the whole point of eating peanuts, after all…) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/6 "2001-01-21T22:25:10Z")
I rub the peanuts and if the skin comes away easily I toss it; else I eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/7 "2001-01-21T22:44:04Z")
Sometimes I eat it, but usually I’ll remove it. But if the peanuts don’t taste salty enough without the skin, I’ll leave it. ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/8 "2001-01-21T22:54:05Z")
Eat it, why not? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/9 "2001-01-21T23:13:32Z")
Definitely eat the skins! They’re an important source of dietary fiber, vitamins A-Z, riboflavins, oxymorons… Actually I have no idea if they have any nutritional value at all. I eat 'em because they have salt clinging to them and it’s too much hassle to peel 'em off. Besides, they look _so_ attractive if one happens to cling to one of your front teeth. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/10 "2001-01-21T23:20:00Z")
I’m just posting to say that one of the advantages of being allergic to nuts is not having to cope with this dilema. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/11 "2001-01-21T23:27:24Z")
Yes, I eat the peanut skins. Why not? I also eat the white stuff on oranges. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/12 "2001-01-22T02:37:43Z")
Sometimes I take the time to take the shells off. Sometimes I don’t. Oh wait, are you talking about those little red skin thingies? Are you serious? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/13 "2001-01-22T02:55:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cumber \* > \*\*I’m just posting to say that one of the advantages of being allergic to nuts is not having to cope with this dilema. 🙂 \*\* You’re allergic to nuts and you’ve survived this long around _this place_?! (Okay, okay…feeble, obvious, but no one else was going for it.) Grinning (peanut skin on front tooth), Veb ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/14 "2001-01-22T03:18:59Z")
If the red skin doesn’t fall off, I eat it. No biggie. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/15 "2001-01-22T03:22:55Z")
I tend to eat the papery stuff. Trying to remove it usually results in the actual nut flying several yards and landing on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/16 "2001-01-22T03:31:58Z")
Personally, I love to get those Planters Redskin peanuts and pick out only the ones that have the full skin on them. I love 'em. The naked ones I have no interest in. Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that they leave nothing to the imagination. Hee Hee. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/17 "2001-01-22T05:22:29Z")
Of course you eat the skins! Hell, in my family we’ve got a great cookie recipe that calls for spanish peanuts - the ones with the skins on (I wonder if they’re calling them “redskins” peanuts now - we’ve been having trouble finding them). The skins give great flavor, and the salt and sweet together is just the best. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/18 "2001-01-22T05:29:00Z")
eat the skin? hell I put the whole thing in my mouth, suck the hell out of it to get every last crystal of salt, then I take it back out, crack the shell, and eat the peanut, skin and all. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/19 "2001-01-22T08:54:39Z")
I eat peanuts shells and all. Always have. ---
**Author:** ![TheThill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheThill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheThill)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171/20 "2001-01-22T11:06:58Z")
I collect the loose ones and make it into a tea. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanut-skins-a-poll/51171.md?page=2)