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Spud skins billed ‘skincredible’ snacks
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NEW YORK — The potato
skin, long one of the most cursed
and blessed of culinary items, is
coming into its own as a snack
food.
Many generations of scullery
maids, soldiers and housewives
have fretted over the labor of peel
ing spuds by hand so they could be
fried, boiled or mashed.
Simultaneously, some physi
cians and many mothers con
tended the potato baked in its skin
contains more nutriment than any
other — and the mothers insisted
that youngsters not leave the table
until they had eaten the last bit of
skin along with the buttered meat
of the baked spud.
But the nutritiousness of the
potato skin really is only a minor
factor in its rise to popularity as a
snack food, says Bill Daniels, mar
keting director of J. R. Simplot
Co. of Caldwell, Idaho, the
world’s biggest marketer of pota
toes.
The company recently has put
on the wholesale and institutional
food market two shapes of potato
skin called Skincredibles. One is a
strip for use as a cocktail hors
d’oeuvre, the other a shell for
making canapes filled with saus
age, other meats, cheese and gar
nish vegetables or for dipping.
Daniels said Simplot got the
idea from restaurants that were
making the potato skin snacks by
hand. Simplot proceeded to de
velop and patent a cutting
machine to make them in large
quantities. The skin strips and
shells have from a quarter to half
an inch of potato meat on them.
The shells are about one-third of a
whole potato in area.
They are par-fried then frozen
and packed in fairly large contain
ers for the restaurant trade. “Sim
plot doesn’t pack anything for the
retail market,” Daniels said.
“A few of our customers are
repacking Skincredibles for the
retail trade under their private
brand names and we have had in
quiries from other retail packers.
Such packers either would have to
pay Simplot for the right to use its
cutting machines or develop their
own machines,” he said.
Daniels said Simplot de
veloped the potato skin snacks just
because they’re good and because
the market for snack foods of all
kinds is growing rapidly. People
who like snack foods clearly like
variety.
The Skincredibles have to be
thawed and re-cooked either by
frying briefly in deep fat or baking
in a normal or microwave oven
before serving.
Daniels said Simplot was not
looking for a by-product in de
veloping the potato skin snacks. If
anything, it’s the other way
around; potato meat scooped out
when the shells and strips are
formed is the by-product and goes
into flour or other processed pota
to products.
“Potato skins taste good,” he
says. “The only thing that’s kept
them off the commercial market
up to now is the time and trouble it
takes to prepare them properly.’
And how about the mattefl
the nutritiousness of potato pei;
ings?
Daniels says Simplot’sownB
rition experts never have tee
convinced that potatoes bakelt!
the skin contain significantly*;-
nutriment or vitamins thanpeetf
boiled potatoes or even propel
fried potatoes.
“But I know some millions!
women are convinced the spe
baked in its skin is muchbetterlij
their children’s health and wet
not about to try to change tf®
minds, he added. \
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nie Francis calls it a miracle — the
way she finally snapped out of a
7-year trauma she suffered after
being raped.
In November 1974 the dark
haired singer was raped in her
motel room on Long Island after a
performance at the Westbury
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have a far-reaching and devastat
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that eventually led to a divorce
from her husband, Joe Garizzi,
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physically incapable of singing be
fore an audience.
There followed a lengthy, pub
licly humiliating court battle.
Francis sued the Howard Johnson
motel chain for damages and even
tually collected $2.6 million.
“I was physically and emotion
ally unable to go on with my
career,” Francis said.
other rape and crime victims. She
associated herself with the Crime
Victims’ Compensation Board in
New Jersey. She appeared on
public service television spots for
rape victims and spoke to indi
viduals who had survived similar
“I suffered from a morbid fear
of audiences. Every time I looked
into a crowd I saw the face of the
man who raped me. And I hated
the feeling that when people
thought of me it was in terms of
the girl who was raped.
experiences.
“Three and a half years after the
rape I tried to get my career going
again," Francis said. “I went to
England and did an awful live
show. I didn’t sound like myself.
And I cut a couple of albums. It
took me 20 takes per song whereas
I used to click them right off. The
albums were just fair.
“All of my life before the rape,
the fun and enjoyment was ne
gated. The rape became an obses
sion. I couldn’t think of anything
else.”
“One of my problems was a
nasal condition caused by air-
conditioned clubs and theaters. It
destroyed my resonance and vib
rato.
Francis soon became a recluse,
seeing only close friends. She
would take to her bed for two or
three months at a time.
Even the adoption of an infant
son a month after the rape failed to
change the downward course of
the singer’s life.
Yet, she began working to help
“So in January of 1977 I under
went an operation. It made my
condition worse. I couldn’t sing at
all. The only thing I’d been sure of
all my life was my voice. And now
I’d lost that.
“My world fell apart. Ifit hadn’t
been for my son, Joey, and my
parents, I’d have committed
suicide.
“I was in complete depression.
And I had to live with the memory
of the trial which became a carniv
al. It was a terrible ordeal. They
asked horrible questions about my
marital sex life.
“It contributed to the breakup
of our marriage. My husband —
we are friends now—just couldn’t
handle all of that invasion of pri
vacy.”
After the operation, Francis
could barely sing.
She said she spent thousands of
dollars on specialists, most of
whom told her she would never
sing again because of the damange
incurred during the nasal opera
tion. She abandoned hope of ever
resurrecting her career.
“I didn’t know what I was going
to do,” Francis continued. “Then
eight days ago I was talking to a
man I date about the whole ordeal
of the rape and operation and I
began to cry. I just broke down
and the floodgates opened.
“It was the first time I’d ever
cried about the rape, really let my
feelings go. I also wept about the
trial, the operation and the mur
der of my brother, George, last
May. The man I was with was very
empathetic.
“The next day I was walking
down a New York street andllJ
gan to sing quietly to myself,Til
song was ‘What I Did For Love,!
song I hadn’t had the range:;
even attempt after the operafcj,
“I was with the same ml
stopped walking and toldhimi
can sing!’
“Then I got into my ear
turned on the stereo taped;
album I’d recorded lOyearsaj
And I sang along with it. Myvoi
was as good or better than wit
I’d done the recording.
“It wasn’t a gradual improJ
ment. It was instant. Itwasma®
al. I swear it was a miracle. AMI
sudden my voice was back. In
a religious girl, but I believel
God now. I
“I stopped the car and lei
phoned my father and my maal
ger. I told my manager to boolnl
hack in the Westbury MusicFal
And he did. I’ll be opening N f
12. It’s my way of overcoming ti
fear of the rape.
“I know it’s paranoid, buli|
have two bodyguards with ntj
And I’ll drive home twohoursf|
cry night rather than stay Ie
motel. But I’m really happy
elated. I can sing again. And I
work again!”
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