WHO LIKES S0S FOR BREAKFAST?

[TheHobbyist]

Interesting. I never knew it was a military staple. Growing up as a kid, we would have it once every week or two, maybe three, but it was always on rotation. Mom told me that they'd make it at grandad's (vet) because it would feed a large family for cheap.

Regardless, I always liked it. Same with biscuits and gravy.

 

[DWalt]

First I ever heard of SOS was back when I was a teen, from an older friend who had quit high school and joined the Navy. Apparently it was common Navy food.

 

[Golddollar]

I can remember many Sunday mornings having chipped beef and gravy on toast with fried potatoes at the old Blue Comet Diner in Clifton Heights, PA, plus about 3 cups of coffee. I was never in the service. I think I remembered it from when my mom made it.

 

[TTSH]

Guess what I just had for supper... inspired entirely by this thread!

Wasn't bad! Wasn't bad at all!

 

[Watchdog]

Who likes SOS for breakfast?

Not me. It looks just like what my dogs throw up when they have a stomach ache. I can't stand to even look at the stuff.

 

[Watchdog]

I gave up on "stuff" on a shingle after getting my fill of it in the Army.

Me, too, except I had the Air Force version.

I promised myself when I got discharged, I'd never eat that stuff again. I also promised myself I'd never stand in any sort of a chow line again. Never.

I'm proud to say that forty-eight years later, I've kept both of those promises.

 

[BOGEYB]

I grew up in an Army family circa 50's to mid 60's. Mom used to buy those small glass jars of Hormel dried beef at the commisary for 4 for a buck. That was back when Dad was paid once a month. Every month we had a big ol' pot of navy beans, or SOS for supper! I still like both to this day. My wife is also an Army brat too, but she would stave rather than eat either. Well...no accounting for taste!!

Mike

 

[joe44va]

Got sick on SOS at Kings Point in 1965. Haven't had it since. Same with Ozo.

 

[nachogrande]

YUM.

With a name like that, it's gotta be good. Haven't run across it on a menu anywhere. I settle for biscuits & sausage gravy with 2 eggs over easy, all U can eat on Saturdays for 5.95$ I limit myself to 4 orders, as I'm watching my figure (get bigger).

 

[joeintexas]

Yeah, love the stuff. The bases I was stationed at had pretty bad chow halls but the SOS was really good. My mother made the best sausage gravy you ever tasted, poured over homemade biscuits, fried eggs and potatoes. I still like SOS with chipped beef.

 

[GKC]

For a change of pace make it with bulk breakfast sausage. Use the sausage grease to make gravy for biscuits.

I make it this way...fry some bacon, and use that grease with flour and milk to make gravy. In a different pan, I fry a chub of sausage. When the gravy is ready, I put the fried sausage in the gravy, without draining it...there usually isn't much grease remaining from the sausage...and then serve the sausage gravy over biscuits, with the bacon on the side.

I can eat that anytime...and actually eat it on occasion for supper. I like it over biscuits much better than over toast.

 

[les.b]

While SOS and creamed chipped beef are the closest thing to Ambrosia that I was exposed to in the service, and I still love them today, there was one thing that I had never even heard of that they tried to get me to eat that I still can't understand how folks can eat....."Grits"!!! Tasted like sawdust with butter on it. never could eat it, to this day.

Best Regards, Les

 

[JayFramer]

I like cheese grits with a smattering of Tabasco brand pepper sauce atop.

Come to think of it, I like just about ANYTHING with a smattering of Tabasco brand pepper sauce atop!!

 

[carpriver]

I like SOS, My wife makes it for me when I ask. I had it in the Air Force Chow Hall. Plate of SOS, 2 eggs over easy, a splash of Tabasco and black pepper. glass of milk and coffee. After I got married I would eat in the chow hall once a week just for the SOS.

I was sent on a extended TDY it was 6 months long the first week I was there the day shift cook was replaced by the TDY commander because he could not make decent SOS.

 

[BigBill]

My uncle was stationed at a Nike missle sight near us and he brought home left overs, SOS was one of them, it was good eating with salt. We had K rations too.

 

[STCM(SW)]

"there was one thing that I had never even heard of that they tried to get me to eat that I still can't understand how folks can eat....."Grits"!!! Tasted like sawdust with butter on it. never could eat it, to this day."

You got that right!!!!

 

[vonn]

Guess I was lucky in that every unit I was in had good cooks and I was so hungry I ate what they dished up and liked it. I even ate all the c rations in RVN,not as good as mess hall chow but edible.

 

[walkin jack]

The best SOS I ever had, and I've had it in a whole lot of mess halls was far and away at Camp Del Mar on Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base, which lies between San Diego and Los Angeles, in the early '60s. I was there for my Fleet Marine training.

The enlisted mess hall was an award winning facility. It was comparable to ordinary staff NCO or even jr officer mess in other Marine Corps bases. Actual tables and chairs an the food was actually restaurant quality.

Breakfast was the best meal of the best meal of the day, EVERY day; eggs and steak, bacon, sausage, and/or ham cooked to order, toast, biscuits, pancakes, potatoes grits and gravy. all you wanted.

And The SOS was made with ground beef but it still blew what ever was in 2nd place away big time.

It was all truly amazing. I was lucky to have been able to enjoy it for a few weeks.

 

[BigBill]

"there was one thing that I had never even heard of that they tried to get me to eat that I still can't understand how folks can eat....."Grits"!!! Tasted like sawdust with butter on it. never could eat it, to this day."

You got that right!!!!

Growing up in a italian family nothing goes to waste. I’ve eaten every part of a cow, most everything. But I grew up on that stuff. My point is if I grew up on grits I’d like that too. I never had them.

 

[kthom]

Put me in the "I like it" category. Never minded it if the gravy was good. I like it best made with dried or chipped beef, but it ain't bad at all with ground beef. However, a very challenging contender is pork sausage gravy with lots of pork sausage crumbled up in it! Like I said, if it's good gravy, almost anything mixed with it is good, either on a piece of toast or over a couple of good biskits opened up. And I agree, it needs a good bit of black pepper sprinkled over the top. Actually the best gravy I remember was the jail house gravy found in most small jails that prepared it inside their own facility. That gravy was nearly black from all the black pepper mixed in with it! SOS is good stuff! Ate a lot of it while in the Army but I'd been exposed to it a lot prior to that time. My dad was a WWII vet so he requested it often while I was growing up.

And, oh yeah, Les, I happen to really like grits too! By themselves, salted and peppered, or in a bowl with sweetener and milk, or better yet, real sweet cream! Yum!