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Uncle Marvo · 08-10-2007, 12:44 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In reply to Des Higgins ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On Oct 8, 12:10 pm, "Amethyst Deceiver"
wrote:
Mary Fisher wrote:
Core-eating isn't something I expect from others but I do wonder why
people peel apples before eating them. a daughter in law does it for
her chiildren because she says they won't like them. They've never
had them :-)

How do you know?

I peeled YB's apples for a while. If I didn't cut them up he
wouldn't eat them at all. Cut up, he would eat everything down to
the skin. Peeling them, he ate more of the apple than if I let him
eat around it.

ditto; this only stopped with my son when we suggested that he could
peel his own apples if he wanted them peeled; then he just ate the
skin. Eating cores is out though; he would rather eat gravel; if we
want him to eat apples, there is give and take; peeling them for a
while was a minor hassle if it meant he would eat some cheap fresh
fruit.

I cut my kids' apples up chinese stylee. I peel the whole skin off in one go
with a potato peeler, then arrange it in a spiral round the rest which is
cut up like a star.

They will then eat them no problem.

Kids, eh?