WHO LIKES S0S FOR BREAKFAST?

[ACORN]

I like it either with ground or dried beef. We used to have it often with ground beef when my daughter was young. She loved it.

 

[soFlaNative]

Back in the early days my wife and I went thru many a Boil-a-Bag (Banquet?) frozen meals. Busting our butts and living in a trailer it was fine dining at the time. Still have for a quick meal, usually with ground round and cream of mushroom over toast.


For the heathens amongst us who cant tolerate grits, stop getting them from the diner. Make your own with a cup each of water, milk and chicken broth. Folks hereabouts will turn up their noses at grits but rave about polenta!

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

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

SOS (the red stuff with hamburger meat) was my favorite navy breakfast, especially with hash browns. Creamed chipped beef (foreskins on toast) was acceptable, but NOT my favorite. Grits were OK, but it didn't hurt to add a little something to them, sometimes.

De gustibus non disputandum erat.

 

[BAM-BAM]

I have always loved the stuff, and am particularly fond of the variety made with the dried beef. This delicious breakfast is a staple for me.

Best Regards, Les

My Dad made it this way a few times.......thou 'canned dried beef" was a sandwich favorite of his..........I got to like it ..... great summer sandwich with a thick slice of homegrown tomato, a little salt, lots of pepper!

He would make "navy beans" and Ham hocks (?) several times over the winter......... IIRC he had to soak the beans for 24hours(?)

 

[-db-]

I'm another who enjoyed mess hall food. No complaints whatsoever. I don't recall SOS ever being served by the time I was in but I've had it at home as a kid and I like it, too. I'm going to have to get the wife to make some.

 

[fkienast]

Early Friday mornings in the USMC was usually a Battalion hump of a least 15 miles. SOS with rice & over easy eggs was my pre-hump breakfast.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Off on a tangent from mess hall food....... when I was in College in the early 70s we had local ladies making homemade food; we ate well; homemade meatloaf and mashed potatoes to "roast beast" on Sundays.............

...... "today" (last year) my eldest as a freshman and had to live in the dorm..... everything but fresh fruit was "processed"...... truly SOS!!!!!!

 

[REM 3200]

Never tried the horse meat variety. For those who may not have been properly initiated in the military, what we are discussing is ground beef in cream gravy served over toast. Lovely stuff! Even better with a couple of fried eggs on top. Real stick-to-your-ribs breakfast that will carry you through to lunch.

Outside of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, SOS for breakfast is the best meal you will ever get in a mess hall.

 

[29aholic]

On the subject of grits. I like them with butter a maple syrup. I know that will make some of you cringe but I was raised on them like that.

I also like mayonnaise on my toast versus jelly

 

[HARDWARE]

grits. butter and black pepper.

 

[kthom]

I like the (yellow) Polenta as well as the (white) grits. The Polenta is usually a coarser grind than the grits and both are much coarser than store bought corn meal. I grew up eating home ground corn meal and it was much more like the consistency of grits or Polenta. One of my favorite treats was when my mom would empty a cardboard can of whole rolled oats (the only kind of oatmeal worth eating!). She would cook up a pan full of that ground cornmeal, let it cool just a bit, then fill the cardboard can with the stuff. She then stored the can in the icebox and let it congeal. At breakfast time, she would then press the round "loaf" out of the can about 3/8" at a time and cut off the slice with a sharp knife. The round slices went into a nice hot cast iron skillet with grease left over from frying bacon where they were fried for a time until they had a nice crust. A few of those on a plate covered with butter and maple syrup sure finished off my bacon and eggs for breakfast nicely! We called it fried corn meal mush. YUM!

 

[Backlighting]

Never SOS at breakfast in boot camp... I preferred the eggs, bacon & pancakes. Hard to mess that up.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Yeah, Chipped Beef makes the best SOS. I used to fix it for my kids when on vacation when they were growing up. They still remember Dad at the camp stove. Now I'm a great grand father. Still fix it for myself every so often.

 

[kmyers]

We have it pretty regularly here but like most breakfast foods they are often more of a supper.

 

[armenius]

Haven’t had it in years, but it’s pretty good if not over salty and made with dried beef. I think I saw it on the menu in the “house” where I usually eat waffles,eggs and bacon.

 

[BC38]

I was on KP once at Lackland in 1952, unloading a truck, &
carrying big boxes of frozen meat in to the cooler. I noticed
the label said something like U.S. Government inspected horse
meat.

I don't know about in the military, and I doubt that it is allowed anymore by health codes, but one of my college profs told us about how, back in the 50's, when he and his pregnant wife were poor as church mice, there was a Hungarian butcher in Seattle who sold horse meat. Said it wasn't much different than eating lean beef, other than being half the price. He said his wife needed the protein for the sake of the baby, and it was what they could afford. So they ate it and were happy that they could get it.

Can't say I've ever had SOS, but I like sausage milk gravy on toast or biscuits. SOS always sounded pretty much like a beef variety of the same, so I imagine I would like it just fine too.

 

[ancient-one]

SOS was the best breakfast the Navy had. The mush covered in thin syrup
was the worst. That is just my opinion, others may think differently.

 

[Mack_C85]

I loved it with lots of butter on the toast and salt and pepper on the gravy. Then I was diagnosed with celiac and I can't eat toast or gravy.

I make it for my gluten sensitive kids ...Gluten free bread for the toast and rice flour for the gravy.

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[BigBill]

The military prepared sos my uncle brought home from the Nike sight before it closed was decent. Remember anything tastes good when your hungry. Even fried liver and onions as a kid I used plenty of ketchup.

 

[BearBio]

Grew up eating fried mush (and corn porridge with milk and sugar)=Southern standard==still LOVE it==I'll get the pre-made polenta and fry it==syrup and butter.

Ate horsemeat once==no big deal. Argentine family served it==didn't tell me what it was. Said you could buy it==it just wasn't inspected or graded.