@Gloria Mitchell One time when money was really tight, being the Salmon-lover that I am, I bought several cans of Mackerel, about 1/4 the price of Salmon. No comparison, I had to force myself to eat it! Frank
@Gloria Mitchell see if you can find the different kinds of salmon in cans and see if you can tell the difference. Pink salmon is the cheapest and most common. Sockeye (red), Chinook (King), and Chum (Dog) are also around. Of course, there is the farmed salmon, and that is always Atlantic Salmon, as the Pacific forms cannot easily be farmed but are introduced into lakes in the U.S.
Oh, I can still smoke fish if I choose, but by getting old, I was implying that the children have left, and just my wife and myself left at home, so it is not generally worth it. I also haven't gone fishing since I broke my back, but I may try again if I get a chance, as I can walk pretty well now.
As a child I didn't like the bones in canned salmon simply because I knew they were bones, and there was that childhood "Yuk" factor at play. When I grew up I got over that. Don't care much for sorting bones out of bass or other freshwater fish, but I'm up to it. Good thing is it slows you down.
We used to get the fresh smoked Kokanee when I was growing up in Idaho, and it was one of my favorite treats. Kokanee is a pink-meat fish like salmon and most trout, and I always ate it skin and all. I really like smoked salmon also , but I don’t like the skin on the salmon, it is too thick and oily. Canned fish is great, and with sardines, kippersnacks, and canned salmon, I eat everything. Smoked oysters are awesome, too ! For a long time, I had one of the Little Chief smokers, and I really enjoyed catching fish and then smoking them myself; but I have not done that for a lot of years now. When they used to have the smelt runs each year, they were something like 20 cents a lb, in the grocery stores, and I would get the smelt and smoke those, and you could pretty much eat those whole, except for the bones; but I always cleaned mine before I smoked them. They were great pan-fried, too, and if I didn’t smoke them, I always pan-fried a bunch when they were on sale, and the kids and I had all of the fish we wanted.
I like salmon but I'd have to be at the point of starvation to eat mackerel. And I ain't that hungry yet.
Yep, that was a story I believe I told on this forum before. I fell off a roof after cleaning a chimney. That was why I was leary of climbing high to access that cable I messaged you about.