They eat them whole without scaling them? How big? Cut heads off and gut?
I had a college roommate who introduced me to frying small bream whole and I mean, literally, WHOLE. These bream were 2-3 inches long and you could catch as many as you wanted on a certain lake, it was overpopulated with bream. I was surprised that they are edible WHOLE, lol. I just remember it tasting normal even though we were eating head, guts, fins, everything. But again, very small.