Appalachian meal. And we ate this growing up canned salmon.

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54. We had salmon patties (we called them croquettes) fairly often.

My mom's were very good. She made them with egg, minced onion and cracker crumbs, then rolled them in cornmeal before frying.
Mine were never as good as hers.

We usually had mac and cheese with them; seems to be a popular combination here.

Sometimes we had slaw or spinach.

We also had the creamed salmon with peas in it. Sometimes my mom made it with tuna. It was one of our Saturday suppers; my dad worked late on Saturday night and ate supper with my grandmother. Saturday suppers werealways things he did not like. Chipped beef on toast, lasagne, or any of a number of casseroles - he had a thing about things mixed up together. The chipped beef aversion was probably a holdover from his WWII service. For some reason he never had an aversion to Spam. Go figure.

One aversion which we found hilarious was evaporated milk. He detested it. If we were going to make something which included it, we would order it from our family store, and have my aunt pack the groceries so the milk would be well hidden. Then we could make the dessert, and he would love it because he did not know the evap was in it.