Do you eat the skin?

[YesILikeItToo]

If your chip shop cooks the fish with the skin on under the batter - are you meant to eat that?

Scots on holiday in England, we’re baffled.

I love it!

Yep, it's the best bit!

Up to you. It's a Southern thing - in the North it's always skin off. I hate the skin so I don't eat it!

Bleurgh no. It really puts me off when I see skin on.

This also disgusts me in England. I just leave the batter on that side. What a waste. And mushy peas ffs!!

I never do. All our local chip shops (w.yorks) cook it without the skin but seaside fish and chip shops (up north at least) cook it with skin on.

I've not eaten fish since a holiday to Norfolk when I was about 8. Really put me off

depends how crisp the batter is, if there is the slightest hint of flab about it then no...

flabby batter doesn't bother me unduly but add in fish skin and i just can't :v

Was talking about this just the other day. Me and daughter both agree it has to be skin on!

I've never ever had fish with the skin on under the batter. I'm in the North of England. Not sure I'd be very keen but picking the batter off would be fiddly.

Could it be that up North they use cod and down South it's more usually haddock? As I think haddock is usually done with skin.

Might be wrong.

Different animal, but when I went to NZ and had KFC, I bit into my fillet burger and the skin was still on the breast, under the coating! Urgh

I thought cod was usually without skin and haddock was cooked with?

Dh will only eat cod from fish and chip shops on that basis...

Must admit, I'm happy to eat skin and probably wouldn't notice so happy to be corrected.

If I notice it there is then an autopsy on my plate to remove it all.

If I don't notice till I've eaten most of it then it doesn't fuss me.

Yorkshire fish shops are usually haddock and no skin, which is how I like it. I don't mind pan fried unbattered fish with skin, but I don't think skin inside the batter is nice at all.

Friend who grew up in London always moans that she can't get fish with skin in Yorkshire, whereas I would moan if I did get the skin, or bones, bleugh. I want to just eat my food, not have to pick at it.

Normally haddock in Scotland (in my experience) - no skin. I hate skin on would leave that side.

The skin is lovely , hardly ever get it like that now

When I moved from the North (where I grew up) to 'darn sarf', it was one hell of a shock to find the skin was left on fish. I remember telling friends back up North and there was a resounding chorus of "urgh, that's disgusting!". (Note I get a similar reaction when I talk to Southern friends about the joys of fish, chips and gravy).

It means that I very rarely eat fish and chips - and when I do, I'll just get chips, or I'll have a sausage rather than face the fish skin. I'm looking forward to Christmas with family back in the North West. On Boxing Day there is a large portion of fish, chips and gravy in a Colne chippy with my name on it! (We went there for lunch last Boxing Day and I will be insisting we go there again this year. It's my annual fix).

You eat it if you want to but difficult to prize it off the inside of the batter if you don't. I like it very much.

This is the reason I don't eat fish and chips (in the south). Skin, eeeesh.

Hell yeah!

Crispy chip shop skin is mega, and only bettered by that bit of skin you pick off your own feet at the base of your big toe.

Clash Oops, I got them the wrong way round. Knew it was one of them. The different fish would explain it anyway.

Our cat gets seriously excited about fish skin, so we save it for her!

Cod is skin off and haddock is skin on in our shop which is down south (Hertfordshire).

It is more common to have skinless cod nowadays so those of you who think all Southern shops have cod with skin on are talking rubbish. Some of them do, but not all. In fact I don’t know any in our area that do.

Ive lived in the north, London, and am now in the south west of England and never had skin on my battered fish apart from plaice. I love the skin though so wouldn’t mind at all.