Appalachian meal. And we ate this growing up canned salmon. [View all]

[Duncanpup]

I never knew the reason behind us eating canned salmon regularly yet I just read why.
I remember this regularly and i liked eating this as i still do today salmon patties and cornbread and at times with bean soup .

Yet it stems from Great Depression as folks suffered from pellagra vitamin B3 deficiency and canned salmon cured people of this . Now in reading spring sickness was predominantly in the south during the depression.

And yet growing up in the Northern part of Appalachia my grandmother made canned salmon a lot a bonus if gram made Mac and cheese as side dish . And the government subsidized the salmon industry during the depression years.

Now a question before eating did you pick the bones out before mixing them with egg flour and breadcrumbs or did you just mash the bones up.
Reasoning from older generation who grew up in those tough times their reasoning was salmon bones added calcium.

I prefer picking bones out yet as kid i don’t remember if they picked out the bones maybe just mixed and mashed.