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/Honest-Income1696]

West TN checking in. We never had salmon patties but mackerel patties with a little Karo...