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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 15:11:13 GMT
I am watching Food Network and they are covering a restaurant in Seattle. Shows the chef cooking fish and chips and then the diners eating it. The people are picking up the fish and eating it with their hands. I've never seen that. I'm in MI and fish and chips is popular, but people eat the fish with a fork. The chips are a finger food, but not the fish.
Where are you from and do people use their hands or a fork to eat fried fish (besides fish sticks lol)?
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Post by Mel on Jul 23, 2021 15:17:05 GMT
I'm an "either/or" type. LOL Depends on the occasion. If I'm a fair or fast food type place, usually with my fingers. At "fancy" restaurants a fork. Also depends on how it's cooked. I'm assuming it's battered & fried since it's fish & chips. LOL I'm from Iowa, grew up in Florida.
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Post by tracylynn on Jul 23, 2021 15:17:20 GMT
Fish and chips are finger food!
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Post by amom23 on Jul 23, 2021 15:19:33 GMT
If the fish is firm enough I will probably eat it with my hands, but if not I'll use a fork.
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Post by ~summer~ on Jul 23, 2021 15:19:42 GMT
Finger food
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Post by huskergal on Jul 23, 2021 15:21:27 GMT
Fish and chips are finger food! 100%. I have never used a fork and knife to eat fish and chips. My favorite is from a food truck. They do not provide utensils. |
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Post by disneypal on Jul 23, 2021 15:22:24 GMT
A little of both - I kind of use a fork to break it into smaller pieces and then pick the pieces up with my hands and eat them...with malt vinegar of course  |
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Post by sueg on Jul 23, 2021 15:22:29 GMT
I grew up with fish and chips as finger food. We didn't even use plates - it was served on the newspaper wrapping that the fish shop wrapped it in.
These days, if I cook fish and chips at home, we use plates and eat with knives and forks. If buy takeaway, then I'll eat it all with my fingers.
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Post by katiekaty on Jul 23, 2021 15:28:25 GMT
From the south—finger food
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 23, 2021 15:28:58 GMT
I grew up with fish and chips as finger food. We didn't even use plates - it was served on the newspaper wrapping that the fish shop wrapped it in. These days, if I cook fish and chips at home, we use plates and eat with knives and forks. If buy takeaway, then I'll eat it all with my fingers. Agreed. If it's takeaway or at a restaurant, I use utensils. If it's on the go, we use our hands. |
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 23, 2021 15:29:46 GMT
I grew up with fish and chips as finger food. We didn't even use plates - it was served on the newspaper wrapping that the fish shop wrapped it in. These days, if I cook fish and chips at home, we use plates and eat with knives and forks. If buy takeaway, then I'll eat it all with my fingers. Agreed. If it's takeaway or at a restaurant, I use utensils. If it's on the go, we use our hands. |
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Post by rickmer on Jul 23, 2021 15:30:49 GMT
i don't think i have ever eaten it with my hands... lol... feeling really weird about that all of a sudden?!?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 15:36:44 GMT
Wow, this isn't as odd as I thought.
That said I have never eaten fish and chips on the go/at a fair. It's always at a restaurant, sit down. When I was younger it was usually a coney island type restaurant but now it's usually at a nice, but not fancy restaurant. But I've never used my fingers and I don't recall seeing anyone else, certainly not my friends and family.
However now I'm going to be checking out the other diners more carefully, especially if it's a very casual restaurant. Maybe at the Friday night fish fry's held at churches/VFW halls they do eat with their hands? I haven't been since I was a child, but my nephew and dd volunteered at the VFW hall a few times for school. I will have to ask them.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Jul 23, 2021 15:37:15 GMT
I think the only place I’ve ever eaten it with my fingers (because they ran out of utensils) was at Epcot. Ha.
Otherwise, fish and chips are always eaten with utensils.
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Post by ntsf on Jul 23, 2021 15:42:57 GMT
I ate fish and chips at the oldest tavern in Gibraltar.(1790's) we ate with knife and fort.
if I pick it up as a fast food/food truck -- with the hands.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 15:46:10 GMT
Depends where. In a restaurant and home, I use a fork because I like to eat it with malt vinegar and salt. If at a small to go place, I just eat it with my fingers.
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Post by peasapie on Jul 23, 2021 15:46:52 GMT
Depends. If it’s breaded cod it will fall apart if you pick it up. If it’s crispy you can pick it up.
I thought you were going to ask if we use vinegar, which I do.
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Post by voltagain on Jul 23, 2021 15:53:30 GMT
To me, fish and chips are finger foods.
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Post by johnnysmom on Jul 23, 2021 15:54:25 GMT
Personally I use a fork. But I use a fork for everything except sandwiches and fries. You won’t see me eating ribs, corn on the cob, chicken wings, etc in public and even at home I use a fork for ribs or bone in chicken (I don’t eat wings at all).
Dh and ds will eat fried fish with their hands without a second thought.
We’re in Michigan too if that matters.
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Post by beepdave on Jul 23, 2021 16:01:27 GMT
I am watching Food Network and they are covering a restaurant in Seattle. Shows the chef cooking fish and chips and then the diners eating it. The people are picking up the fish and eating it with their hands. I've never seen that. I'm in MI and fish and chips is popular, but people eat the fish with a fork. The chips are a finger food, but not the fish. Where are you from and do people use their hands or a fork to eat fried fish (besides fish sticks lol)? I'm in MI, and it's finger food around here! |
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Post by belgravia on Jul 23, 2021 16:17:54 GMT
I never in a million years would have thought that fish and chips (well, the fish, really) was considered finger food. I’ve always eaten the fish with a knife and fork.
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Post by katlady on Jul 23, 2021 16:25:35 GMT
Like others, it depends where it is served. If it is a non-casual restaurant, I would probably use utensils. A casual dining place or eating outside, I would use my hands.
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Post by katybee on Jul 23, 2021 16:38:31 GMT
Now I want fish and chips. And I’ll eat them with my fingers.
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Post by busy on Jul 23, 2021 16:41:27 GMT
I’ve never seen anyone eat fish and chips with a fork.
I’m in Oregon.
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Post by bc2ca on Jul 23, 2021 16:52:46 GMT
Knife and fork for me. I like to spread the tartar sauce over the forkful of fish rather than dip. FWIW, I prefer a fork for almost everything, even fries.  |
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Post by grammadee on Jul 23, 2021 16:52:57 GMT
Mmmm.... Fish & chips.... Only time I would think of eating the fish with a fork would be if the coating was soggy. And then I am not sure I would want to eat it anyway.
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Post by myshelly on Jul 23, 2021 16:56:29 GMT
Finger food for sure
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Post by paget on Jul 23, 2021 16:59:44 GMT
It’s a finger food. I’m from Seattle area so that goes with your question since that was the setting you saw it. If someone ate it with a fork I’d think they were kind of weird or just hated greasy fingers. It would definitely be odd -or at least very much not the norm- to do so. |
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Post by Bridget in MD on Jul 23, 2021 17:00:17 GMT
Ive only had it at an English pup and I can't remember, but I think I used my hands. I hope they don't think I was a disgusting american! LOL
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Post by katlaw on Jul 23, 2021 17:05:28 GMT
Crispy battered fish wrapped in paper is finger food.
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