Pork Shoulder Skin on or off?

[bob_loblaw]

About to rub a pork shoulder to smoke overnight tomorrow for Saturday lunch.  This piece has the bone in and the skin on.  Do I want to take the skin off or leave it on? Also if left on do I score?  Help please!  ???

[FLBentRider]

I would take it off.

[Tenpoint5]

Take it off and give it a dollar!!

[Caneyscud]

The choice for me when I smoke a shoulder is this.  Do I want more bark/smoke flavor or do I want more succulence.  I probably tend to keep it on more often than take it off.  But I've only cooked one in 5 years I guess.  I can't find them around here much anymore - I guess today's homogenized and pasteurized society doesn't like to see dead hog skin!  Leaving the skin on a shoulder if the same reason people do whole hogs.  You don't get the bark, but you sure do get some meat that is high on mouth feel and carnivorous satisfaction.   

[bob_loblaw]

Ended up taking it off.  What a pain.  Was confused at first until I looked at the label and realized that it was a picnic instead of a butt.  Goes in the smoker tonight after work for tomorrow lunch.  Thanks for the responses!

[BuyLowSellHigh]

Now that you took it off, cut it up and fry it !

[TestRocket]

Pork skins, Yum!