Who likes SOS?

Xracer

Well, the Spam thread got me thinking of that other great military staple, SOS.For you civilians, there were two kinds. What we in the Navy called Army SOS....crumpled up hamburger in brown gravy over toast. Navy SOS was creamed dried beef over toast.I love 'em both. You can still get the Navy kind frozen from Stouffers.Anybody else get hooked on this stuff while in the service?

pops401

Creamed chipped dried beef over toast.Can't wait till I get to Heaven, I know they got it there!! Used to steal it out of the glass jar when my mom was making it.Salty as hell. They don't make the beef like they used to. It looks like lunch meat now, used to be shredded.Love it!!

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idsman75

I LOVED the stuff! I probably ate too much mess hall SOS in my time but it was GREAT! I preferred the shingles to be biscuits though.My brother is in his second year at West Point and can't stand to see it grace the tables there. I keep telling him that he doesn't know how to appreciate the finer things in life.[This message has been edited by idsman75 (edited 01-01-2002).]

Bullzeye

Sounds tasty. Where can I get my mitts on some?

woodsrunner

Comes in second to sausage gravy & biscuts. But it is right near the top of my list.

HAIRY

Even my wife enjoys it (the Army kind). She makes it on occasion. I be living the good life. Now, if I can only convince her that one more gun won't hurt!!!!

idsman75

Hairy--Can you get the recipe from her? I want to know how to make it. I can make some decent food but I'm not much of a cook without a recipe.

DaRoosta

My father used to be a cook in the Army sometime before he became an officer. Growing up, we had SOS often. I love both kinds, but he usually makes the hamburger style because it's a little bit easier and I think it makes better gravy. He switches it up and makes biscuits from scratch sometimes instead of having it on toast. We always have it when we go hunting; nothing better for either breakfast or dinner. He tried to teach me how to make it, but it never turns out as good as his does.

YankeeClipper

Xracer-- I was a cook in the U.S.Navy, and beleave me we DID NOT call the dried beef on toast SOS. You and 2 others will have to ask befor I put that up.

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Dave3

Mom called it dried beef gravy long before I got to the navy, Mom's version was much better. I did enjoy the "Army" version at breakfast. That was as close as we ever got to biscut's and sausage gravy. Come on MS put the recipies up there. The navy did have the best corned beefhash I've ever tasted.

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pops401

Bullzeye, Stouffer's makes a frozen dried beef gravy that is tolerable.Mom's everywhere made it better cause they used butter.Richer. Same with sausage gravy.7mm got the name right.Funny how SOS is better on the shingle, and Sausage gravy is better on a busciut when they're so close.

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whiteclouder

I'm the camp cook when me and the boys head into the hills. SOS is one of the favorite meals, right after salsa omelettesI'm the camp cook when me and the boys head into the hills. SOS is one of the favorite meals, right after salsa omelets. Ate a lot of it for mid-night rations, (mid-rats) when I was in the service. Five pounds of hamburger, four big onions diced, three tables spoons of beef bouillon browned and rouxed with flour. Four cans of condensed milk, same of water and thicken to your desire. One camp cook can't keep up with making the shingles.Clouder..

REBJr

I love it all! I haven't gotten any since discharge, now I'm missing it bad!-Ralph

mudge

I love it both ways. It's gotta' be with fried eggs on top though. I think Carl Buddig and EssKay still make it. Packages are usually hanging on hooks in the lunchmeat section of the grocery store. They're both pretty good. The ground beef still is right near the top of the list of favorites, too.If you can't get homemade biscuits, Pillsbury Grands are good.For two people:Two packages of the dried beef Shred the dried beefMake a medium white sauce (thicken with cornstarch instead of flour)Add the shredded dried beef.Serve over biscuits.Add fried eggs.With ground beefBrown the beef. drain follow above stepsUUUMMMMM!!!! Finger lickin'good.Do I LOOK like I've ever missed a meal?Mudge the porker

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Lowrider

No thanks. I ate too much of it in the Army. I've also never touched another piece of chicken since getting out of the Army. I never liked it much to start with but the good ol' Army version, [burned on the outside, raw on the inside, with veins snapping back at you like rubber bands], well, that was the end of it for me and chicken.

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idsman75

Lowrider--You sound like an old squad leader of mine. He won't eat anything off of a bone due to one single bad chicken incident where he got food poisoning. Now it's easy to make him lose his appetite. All you have to do is describe the manner in which one of those raw veins snaps back at you like a rubber band and he starts getting queezy.

whiteclouder

Damn lowrider, I'd forgot about that chicken. I'm gonna puke. How 'bout eggs so old they'd spread over an 18 inch circle when cooky broke 'em on the grill. Yuk!Clouder..

Xracer

Bullzeye....you can get the Navy version (creamed dried beef) in the frozen food section at your grocery store...it's a "boil-in-the-pouch" from Stouffer's called "Creamed Chipped Beef". Comes in a 1"x5"x6" red box. Boil it for about 20 minutes and put over toast......yummy!'Clouder....you were lucky to get SOS for midrats. We usually got horsecollar (horsec*ck) sandwiches!

mudge

Speaking of disgusting eggs. When I was a lad in this here now Air Force, I was pulling KP at Samson AFB and came across a crate of eggs marked "candled in 1941". OK....the only problem with that was...IT WAS 1955!Didn't know whether it was just an old box that had been "reloaded" but I wasn't taking a chance. I moved on to the next box.Mudge the gagged

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andersk

Yup, I enjoyed it in the Navy, and the dear wife fixes it now and then, too.Ken

v35

Army SOS as I knew it in frozen Chosen was creamed chipped beef on toast. The cream was made from powdered milk and later reconstituted milk.As refrigeration was an issue we never had beef but overdosed on ham steaks because they preserved better. Today a little ham steak goes a long way.You could only drink the beer down to within 1" of the bottom or you'd be drinking loose rust flakes. It had to have been WW2 beer.

v35

P.S. I liked it.

Rosie

Try it with corned beef and have lots of honey on hand