Additional ingredients sometimes used include potatoes or squash, salt pork, fish, seafood and chicken.

In the United States, recipes for corn chowder date to at least as early as 1884.

[1][14][15] In the United States, recipes for corn chowder date back to at least 1884, at which time a corn chowder recipe was published in the Boston Cook Book, authored by Mary Lincoln of the Boston Cooking School.

[6] Corn chowder is a mass-produced canned food product in the United States.

"[22] Safeway Inc. markets a corn chowder under their "Signature Cafe" store brand.