My wife insists that I do not eat the skin of Taiwanese grapes. It’s the dark purple, thick kind of skin. Is there a reason for this? I’ve been so used to popping grapes in my mouth and swallowing everything that I wonder if there is any nutritional/toxic reason not to eat the skin of the grapes we buy here.
What say you?
I say 吃葡萄不吐葡萄皮；不吃葡萄倒吐葡萄皮
Edit: For the illiterate, this is just a common tongue twister having to do with eating grapes and spitting out grape skin.
In these kind of situations I imagine someone liberally smearing pesticides over the skin and thinking “no one’s going to eat that”
I don’t eat the skin because it’s too tough and rather tart compared to the rest of the grape. I just bite into the grape, ever so nimbly slip my tongue between the flesh of the grape and the skin, and remove the skin in one mostly intact piece. Then I dig the tip of my tongue into the center and scoop out the seed, as well.
Hmmm…maybe getting a bit too graphic for the forum.
Funny, I was thinking I should start a fruit eating thread 
The Forum is supposed to be graphic.
I tried to be a good husband and started peeling. Not one-half of a grape through, I gave up and just chucked it into my mouth.
One time when my mom and I were headed back to the United States, she brought some of those grapes with her as a snack. The person seated next to us watched as she painstakingly peeled and seeded the grapes for me (probably 4 years old at the time?), and they said to her, “Wow. You are a great mother.”
I happen to like tart as well, so after peeling the 1/2 grape, I was like, “I’m not going to enjoy this. I’m eating the skin.”
You left out the most important part. What happens to the remnants?
Yes, the skin of grapes here is hard to chew and therefor Taiwanese spit it out with the pits. Western grapes have a soft skin, some are seedless.
Taiwanese have a boon for this, shrimp with skin, little bone fragments in meat, bones in fish … they like to spit out stuff.
Fighting the urge to make a “spit or swallow” poll…
Before I peel off the skin like banana now I got no time for it got no patience.
I initially read this as you saying you don’t even bother to peel bananas anymore and was impressed and horrified by the idea of someone eating a banana peel and all.
Just squeeze it out.
This gets better and better…
I sometimes eat oranges and tangerines like apples, peel and all. I have never eaten an entire apple core though.
You wax your intestines?
If it prolongs the life of my car’s body, it should do the same for me.