Do you always eat it, never eat it, eat it if the figs are cooked?
I was making pasta with figs last weekend. I was unsure whether to leave the fig skins on, when slicing them up and putting them in the sauce. I ended up peeling them, just in case.
My grandfather had a huge black mission fig tree in his yard. As kids we would climb it eat the figs right off the tree skin and all. I like the flavor of the skins with the friut.
I definitely do eat the skins. That being said, I think the skin on the black figs are a little more 'earthy/ green' tasting to me than the yellow figs.
We have a very short fig season and when they are in I eat everything except the stem. I wish we could get them year round. We do have fig preserves the rest of the year.