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Best part about SE Asia, you can easily get fried or grilled to crispy skins of fish, pork and chicken.
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My father-in-law tried eating avocado, skin and all, the first time he had one. It's one of the great family lore stories.
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I eat the skin on chicken most of the time, as long as it is fried. I don't eat fried chicken a lot, so I figure it is ok.
What people do find strange about my eating habits is that when I eat fried fish like cod, I remove the batter and don't eat it. I can't stand fried fish batter/tempura. |
I remove the fish batter too sometimes. Potato skin is usually ok.
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Originally Posted by kyden
(Post 24892664)
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What people do find strange about my eating habits is that when I eat fried fish like cod, I remove the batter and don't eat it. I can't stand fried fish batter/tempura.
Originally Posted by wanderlustoz
(Post 24892705)
I remove the fish batter too sometimes. Potato skin is usually ok.
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Oh my yes. If it's on a meat or a potato I'll eat it. Especially crispy duck skin.
I do not like apple skins unless the apple is cut into pieces though...I prefer not to use my front teeth to eat an apple I guess. |
Fruit skins fine potato skins too....
Current trend for serving crispy fish or chicken skin - complete no! I've never eaten chicken or fish skin and have no intention of starting now! |
Caveat: I'm strict vegetarian, so I'm not talking meat or egg skins ;-)
I eat virtually everything, minus canteloupe, watermelon, banana, coconut, durian, orange, pomegranate, pineapple, a couple varieties of squash. (...and things that I've forgotten). I'm also "game" to eat the cores/centers on fruits and vegetables, other than pits, like olives. I don't eat avocados, period. |
I think much depends on preparation. For instance, give me chargrilled fish and I will almost always eat the skin (bar a few species like swordfish and shark which have a rather leathery skin). But if it is in sauce or steamed I will leave it off as it gets a bit soggy.
Great batter I'll eat too but most batter I won't. Sausage: natural skin yes, plasticky stuff, no way! One of the trickiest one is cheese rind - hundreds of types and different choices, that would deserve a thread in its own right! ;) |
I'm all about eating chicken and pork skin. These days, I have to fight my 6 year-old daughter for the chicken skin. I should be proud of her...but it gets competitive, so there are mixed feelings.
Pork skin I like even when it's not crunchy...as long as it's been braised long enough. Think Japanes Buta no Kakuni or French Petit Sale...it's luscious. |
I generally don't eat animal skins but do eat all fruit/vegetable skins.
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Originally Posted by Doc Savage
(Post 24888791)
Salmon skin sushi rolls FTW
Turkey skin is about the only one I don't eat. |
I don't eat deep fried chicken ('cept for chicken wings at a bar) but I do like to make pan seared and then roasted chicken at home. The other night I pan seared and oven roasted in the cast iron pan some jerk spice rubbed & apple cider vinegar marinated chicken thighs to put over a vegetable & couscous salad. The skin, which is minimal, was crisp and flavorful. I make this once or twice a month.
I can only eat thin skinned fruits because of a digestive disorder but I love empire apples and will eat fresh tomatoes like they're an apple or pop cherry tomatoes like they're candy. Not a huge fan of seared fish skin. |
Yes. Especially on Peaking Duck, and Schweinshaxe :D
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Originally Posted by BamaVol
(Post 24886616)
Okay, some of those are just to tough too remove, although as a toddler I'm told I insisted my father remove skin from grapes before I would eat them. Come to think of it, if someone would do that for me sixty years later, I wouldn't turn it down.
Some of the skins I won't eat: sweet potato, cucumber, apple, chicken, eggplant, turnip. Some of the skins nobody eats (correct me if I'm wrong): banana (although I did try smoking it in the 60's - thank you Donavan), winter squash. |
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