What regions do people eat salmon/ mackerel patties? (home, buy)

[censusdata]

Is this just a Southern food?

Basically you buy a can of salmon or mackerel from the store. Take it home and remove the skin and bones, add eggs and crushed crackers. Mix it all together and fry in shallow grease. My family in Southern KY made it often.

The final result looks like this:



Maybe we can do a "Yes" "No" map based on the results

[munchitup]

Never heard of that before, I've lived in the southern/central coast of California and Boston.

[Bydand]

We eat that here on the west side of Michigan. most of the year though is isn't store bought canned salmon, but fresh caught salmon that is used. Springtime some people do the same thing with Suckers. The small town I live in used to have a "Suckerfest" every Spring during the run up the river and they served sucker patties free all day just as fast as the guys could catch and clean them.

[Southern man]

I had that dish for supper day before yesterday with black eyed peas and potato salad. Yes, for Georgia , Alabama and Mississippi.

[cittic10]

Yeah I love fried salmon patties.
I wouldn't call it southern per se.

I don't eat them very often though as I try to avoid fried food and canned anything but there are days where I'm in a pinch and the cupboard is bare.

[tigre79]

Alaskans eat salmon everything, but not from cans.

We ate tuna patties and salmon patties in Texas growing up. Not mackerel though. I'd put crab cakes in the same category as well. Same idea.

[Malloric]

Really? You can find them in California, especially the north coast pretty regularly.

[hdwell]

Grew up eating salmon patties in the deep south. People used to say sal-mun instead of sammun down here. Don't hear sal-mun much anymore.

[EnricoV]

I grew up (in Oregon) eating Salmon croquettes (essentially the same, but shaped differently). Love them. My mother's family was from the South, but my father's from the northwest. And while fresh salmon was preferred ... my northwest relatives all canned salmon when it was in season. But we ate everything that came out of the can ... skin, bones, and all.

[CowanStern]

Leave the skin and bones in there, they're good for you. Mackerel is a lot cheaper than salmon.
Save the liquid in the can as a base for a nice chowder for one or two lunches.

My mother and my ex wife, both from the midwest, made salmon patties all the time.