Fried Fish: Finger Food or Fork Food??

[PotatoHouse]

I'm a southern boy who grew up as a Navy B.R.A.T. (Born, Raised, And Trapped). Although I was raised to look at fried fish as a finger food, instinctively when I'm in a nicer restaurant I find myself using a fork with my beer battered cod. What do you think, is fried fish finger food or fork food?

[zuklaak]

However I can get it from the serving platter to my mouth. Not much for ceremony.

[njmarshall55]

Shell fish with or without bib, finger food. Fish and Chips, finger food. All else, knife and fork.

[tastesgoodwhatisit]

If it comes wrapped in a newspaper, or I'm at home, finger food. If it's served on a plate in public, fork or chopsticks as appropriate.

[Evilbanana11]

This is chopstick food.

[arktos]

That's what I was thinking.

[EWSflash]

Perfect utensil!

[scubadoo97]

Could also depend on how it's cut. Cut into pieces that can be easily held and eaten or a big honking fillet which requires two hands to pick up

[kengk]

In a nicer restaurant, fork food. At a "fish camp" with all you can eat whole catfish, finger food.

[Passadumkeg]

In the UK, fish 'n chips used to be served in a newspaper cone, but it is still a finger food.
New herring in the Netherlands as well.

[EWSflash]

Miss Manners recommends eating lobster at home, because it's better eaten with the hands and a lot of mess. And no judgemental witnesses, only people with the same thing on their mind as you.

[LindaWhit]

If it's a white fish, I'd always use a fork, unless it's put in a sandwich - then it's finger food.

Shellfish, such as shrimp, clam bellies - finger food. Because they're usually served in clam shacks. Plus, I wouldn't be ordering fried fish in a nicer restaurant, where I'd be inclined to use a fork for my meal.

[carolinadawg]

If you're over the age of 2, its fork food.

[ttoommyy]

"If you're over the age of 2, its fork food."

If you are outside of your home, I agree. If you were raised at home to eat it with your fingers, then fingers it is at home.

[Gio]

HAHA.. of course. For fried fish. But up here in New England (or Down Maine) we eat fried shell fish with fingers in "clam shacks" and use forks in restaurants..

[Passadumkeg]

A good 'un!

[Querencia]

Consider thought that a piece of fried clam is a lot smaller than a fried piece of fin fish---about the same size as a fried shrimp. Much easier to handle with fingers. I should think eating a slab of battered and fried fin fish with your hands, assuming you are a grown-up, would look kind of primitive and disgusting. Maybe OK on a picnic or at a fish camp but certainly not in somebody's home or in a restaurant with knives and forks.