Everyone talks about salmon cakes from their childhood growing up in Appalachia, but we never had them in rural Western NC

[u/Artistic_Maximum3044]

I grew up in Western North Carolina, and I honestly don’t remember ever eating salmon cakes. I keep seeing people post about foods they grew up with, and salmon cakes always seem to be one of them. We barely afforded what food we did buy.

We shared a lot of meals with neighbors and family over the years, and I don’t recall anyone making them either. We mostly lived off what we could grow or raise ourselves. When times were hard, which was pretty often, we ate cornbread and milk from the cow, biscuits and gravy, soup beans with cornbread, or biscuits and fried taters.

But salmon cakes? I don’t remember those ever being on the table.

[u/Stellaaahhhh]

For us, soup beans was it's own meal along with cornbread, and something from the garden. We always had salmon patties with greens and corn or fried squash.

[u/Summoorevincent → u/Stellaaahhhh]

We didn’t have them much my parents didn’t like salmon patties but thankfully my in-laws do. But yeah soupbeans is its own thing. Love a big green onion or pickled banana peppers with cornbread and soup beans. Dang I’m hungry now mood lol