Fish and Chips? How do you eat it?

Finger food. You break the fillet in half and pour in the malt vinegar, then savor the crunchy goodness.

Fish and chips are always eaten with a utensil. Either knife and fork in a restaurant or at home. If out then a wooden fork. If I was only eating chips on the go as a take out then fingers are accepted.

No one ever turns down an invite for a fish fry at our house because my husband excels at them. I think a lot of it depends on the size of the fillet. If it's something like walleye that is bigger, you use a fork. If it is a smaller fillet like a bluegill it can totally be a finger food. But if we saw someone eating walleye with their fingers we would think nothing of it.

Personally, I eat mine with a fork but I also like to dip mine in tartar sauce vs. vinegar.

I'm from Washington and yes, I've only ever eaten and seen people eat fish and chips with their hands. Even in CA when we lived there and in UT too.

Melissa

From the UK. For me fish and chips is a takeaway food that you eat from the paper with your fingers.

In a restaurant, with knife and fork. Out of newspaper soaked in vinegar and frosted with salt on a bench by the sea, definitely with fingers.

I’m from Michigan, very close to Lake Huron. The fish there was sooo good. I miss it very much. Perch and Pickerel, are my very favorites. I’m in DFW and can not find any fish here that compares. Ha - if the people in Michigan knew I ate catfish - they would lose their minds. I admit, it took a lot of getting use to.
We would use forks for the fish.  Fries or chips, fingers.  Lemon squeezed and tartar sauce please.  
Heck,  if you gave me some good, lake fresh fish - I’d eat it with my hands tied behind my back. 😊

Definitely finger food

I guess it depends. If I get Cod from the broasted chicken place, I usually pick it up with my fingers and eat it, but those are more like fish tenders and I eat those at home.
If Im eating cod filets, then I use a knife and fork and that is usually im a restaurant.

I dont know why the difference. Honestly, Id rather use my fingers

I’m struggling to imagine the kind of fish and chips y’all are talking about that wouldn’t hold up to being picked up. I feel like there must be different styles of fish and chips in different parts of the country. Do you eat things like chicken strips with forks too?

I have Fish & Chips (takeaway) almost every week, so I never order it when I'm in a restaurant. Everyone in my family eats their takeaway F&C straight from the bag with their hands. I'm the only one who uses a plate and knife and fork, much the amusement of everyone else. 

So if I eat it with a knife and fork in the privacy of my own home, then I would definitely use a knife and fork in a restaurant. 

Fish & Chips are finger food here. Not sure I have ever seen anyone eat them with a knife and fork.

DH likes fish and chips, but he only orders it at a sit down restaurant. He uses a fork for the fish because it is hot and greasy and messy and also because he likes to use a fork for most things.