WHO LIKES S0S FOR BREAKFAST?

[Texas Star]

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.

That reminds me of the dining hall at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. I ate there while assisting Secret Service in guarding the President. (JFK.)

Three strengths of coffee and five desserts!

Overall, though, SOS was among several factors that caused me to decline reenlistment.

 

[crazyphil]

Guess what I am going to make for breakfast in the morning.
Inspired by all of your comments. Picked up all the ingredients
yesterday, and I'll be cooking early.

 

[crazyphil]

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.

My mom's dad was a butcher. She used to tell us that when
her dad butchered a pig the only part they did not eat was
the "oink".

 

[sniper]

Loved the stuff! Only we didn't have it often enough. I got in trouble one day when I remarked in the NCOIC's hearing that it was funny they had bulllfights every Sunday in Juarez, and we had steak Mondays in the chow halls. He was extremely annoyed that I would even think that!

 

[STCM(SW)]

Yea, Rocky Mountain Oysters?????

 

[345sire]

32 years in the Navy. Never ate it even once.......
Eggs over easy with bacon.

MMMMMM, bacon! Bacon with anything, even bacon with a side of bacon.

 

[345sire]

Loved the stuff! Only we didn't have it often enough. I got in trouble one day when I remarked in the NCOIC's hearing that it was funny they had bulllfights every Sunday in Juarez, and we had steak Mondays in the chow halls. He was extremely annoyed that I would even think that!

No sense letting that meat go to the trash,,,,,,,,,,,
Hey, waste not want not, right?

 

[joeintexas]

That reminds me of the dining hall at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. I ate there while assisting Secret Service in guarding the President. (JFK.)

Three strengths of coffee and five desserts!

Overall, though, SOS was among several factors that caused me to decline reenlistment.

I was once sent on assignment for 2 weeks at the Academy. You are correct, the food there was top quality. Even table cloths! I had forgotten about that. Officers had it a bit better than us enlisted folks.

 

[crazyphil]

Great chefs don't need recipes. I just cooked up a batch of sausage,
little red potatoes, sweet onion, and then mixed it all up with sausage
gravy. It tastes much better than it looks.

 

[kthom]

Pretty is as pretty does, Phil. And that skillet full of grub looks pretty to me! I can just taste it!

 

[DWalt]

Loved the stuff! Only we didn't have it often enough. I got in trouble one day when I remarked in the NCOIC's hearing that it was funny they had bulllfights every Sunday in Juarez, and we had steak Mondays in the chow halls. He was extremely annoyed that I would even think that!

Those bullfight victims don't go to waste. There will be a butchering facility somewhere on site where the bulls are gutted, skinned, and the carcasses quartered. I saw that once at a bullfight in Nuevo Laredo. Those Mexican butchers were quick, took very little time for them to disassemble a bull. I don't know where the meat went after that. In Mexico, cattle heads are a great favorite, usually sold intact. That's where barbacoa comes from.

 

[Rpg]

Recipes please folks.

I love food threads!

I remember Dad making SOS in the ‘50’s with a cured meat that came in a little glass container but haven’t had it in many, many years.

Now I want some, but I need the best detailed recipe.

Let’s hear ‘em.

 

[29aholic]

I love food threads!

I remember Dad making SOS in the ‘50’s with a cured meat that came in a little glass container but haven’t had it in many, many years.

Now I want some, but I need the best detailed recipe.

Let’s hear ‘em.

There's a pretty good recipe in one of the links on the first page.

Otherwise make it basically like B&G's but use chipped beef instead. Hormel still makes the dried beef in a can, but I have also used the sliced chip beef you get in a pouch in the cooler section. I like mine on Texas toast.

 

[safearm]

The dining hall for the Tech School side of Lackland AFB in 1980 had the best SOS I ever ate in my 28 years in the Air Force. Every morning I was there, I had it over the less than stellar scrambled eggs.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The best military grade SOS that I had was at Shaw AFB.

 

[joeintexas]

The dining hall for the Tech School side of Lackland AFB in 1980 had the best SOS I ever ate in my 28 years in the Air Force. Every morning I was there, I had it over the less than stellar scrambled eggs.

The chow hall on the basic training side in 1968 had me second guessing my decision to join the Air Force, if prison had been an option I might have pondered that decision a second or two. You are right about the scrambled eggs, they were brutal. I imagined chickens all over south Texas hanging their heads in shame.

 

[bgrafsr]

Funny. I wasn't in the service (or in prison), but I love certain institutional foods, especially for breakfast. Is something wrong with me?

I'm way too old for college dining halls now (I used to love those early morning scrambled eggs), but I sure do love hospital cafeteria food when I can get it. One hospital in Springfield, MA serves the best tasting breakfast sausage links on the planet. I've been trying to duplicate the flavor at home for almost a year now, but I'm not even close.

I may be the only member here who looks for hospitals instead of restaurants for solo meals out. And no meals tax just makes it that much better!

The best link sausages I have ever had are the ones a restaurant serves at Mountaineer Resort and Casino in West Virginia.

 

[BigBill]

SOS for breakfast?

I worked second shift all my life, third shift second and day shift last. You know I could eat anything at anytime. We would eat t bone steaks at 5:30am. I’m still that way today. I light the grill at 11pm and breakout the dogs and burgers. Second shift was the best I got to fish before work.

 

[Chuck24]

If that's the way you start, you know your day has to get better

 

[JohnRippert]

Mom used to make it from scratch quite often, not usually for breakfast though. She just buys Stouffers every now and then when she wants her fix.