...OTOH, my mum does. She eats cores and peels (disregarding my protestations about pesticides not being washed off.) Quite handy when we are together, though. And I use them in fruit preserves, if this can keep the blame off me :)))
I'm more likely to discard the peels (than the cores) just for that reason, too.
It rather depends though - I'm more likely not to want to eat the peels if it's a shiny foreign apple with a shiny, flawless, skin, than when it's a local apple which has a funny shape and lots of little skin issues. Somehow I feel that if it looks so imperfect, then there might be a smaller chance of it having been poisoned too much!
eeek for shiny-foreign-starlet-apple look! *g* Yet now that I live in the country I'm *very* cautious with my neighbours' offers: they are kind people and all, but I'd swear they spray their trees with more drugs than learned farmers. This might be born out of envy over their nice harvests of course, but, while they DO use chemicals, have strangely shaped yet edible fruits, and are full of -often teasing- advices, I'm keeping to soapy water and just a little verdigris in spring, and the resulting fruits are usually rotten, LOL
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Date: 18 February 2009 13:08 (UTC)And I use them in fruit preserves, if this can keep the blame off me :)))
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Date: 18 February 2009 13:14 (UTC)It rather depends though - I'm more likely not to want to eat the peels if it's a shiny foreign apple with a shiny, flawless, skin, than when it's a local apple which has a funny shape and lots of little skin issues. Somehow I feel that if it looks so imperfect, then there might be a smaller chance of it having been poisoned too much!
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Date: 18 February 2009 13:40 (UTC)Yet now that I live in the country I'm *very* cautious with my neighbours' offers: they are kind people and all, but I'd swear they spray their trees with more drugs than learned farmers.
This might be born out of envy over their nice harvests of course, but, while they DO use chemicals, have strangely shaped yet edible fruits, and are full of -often teasing- advices, I'm keeping to soapy water and just a little verdigris in spring, and the resulting fruits are usually rotten, LOL
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Date: 18 February 2009 15:34 (UTC)Well, I suppose there are all those special products and all somewhere, but I don't actually know of a place here where I could get "clean" apples.