I hadn't even thought about chip beef gravy for years. I took the wife to breakfast at one of the better restaurants in the area and there on the buffet...chip beef gravy and fresh biscuits. Man was it good. I ate a bunch, put it on the hash too, and the potatoes, basically everything except the eggs.
Isn't it amazing that it's the little things that can make your day.

We had chip beef for dinner as a kid. I love it. The Navy did it for breakfast but I still like it best for dinner.

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When I was in the Air Force the best way to tell if the mess hall was going to be good was to eat breakfast the first day you got on base. If the SOS (chip beef) was good you could figure the rest of the food would be good. I like my SOS on toast with two over easy eggs and hot sauce. I spent a lot of my time at SAC base. SAC had the best food at all four meals.

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When on my ship they used to serve SOS for breakfast and lunch. Not many takers. Spent almost the whole westpac cruise dining on hamburgers,hot dogs and mystery meat. Reason being what with the full airwing, we had almost 5000 on board. We'd stand in the mess line for an hour and never had the chance to eat cause of so many people. Then they opened the forward mess decks with limited facilities and menu choices. Just about the whole engineering dept ate there during that time. After we came back home more than a few of us were glad to see the airwing leave. Frank

SOS????
Just couldn't get myself to try eather the creamed or red...
Chiefs have there own mess, I liked that!
They have that in the Goat locker on Subs?

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A good winter breakfast. It's getting time to have some more.

Creamed chipped beef is just that. Very thinly sliced dried beef in a white sauce.
SOS is ground beef in a white sauce.

Why isn't sausage gravy called SOS? I don't know. It looks the same.

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Diddums

I recently found a product from Stouffers, it is the frozen food section ..Chipped beef and sauce, great over toast and hash browns..I try and keep at least 4 containers of it in my freezer for unexpected people stopping by for coffee and breakfast..

man i havent had that in years i always liked it if it was real good i dont remember seeing it on the menu lately gonna have to look around brings back fun eating times

My wife and I started off together living in a trailer (not as nice as a mobile home) and twice a week had a product called BoilaBag, chipped chicken or beef, over rice and was grateful to have it.

Thirty some years later if I buy beef in a jar I'll be making spinach dip.

I found that Stouffer's too. Not quite as good as I can make because I sauted my chipped beef in real butter to make the roux, but it's a pretty nifty and cheap enough substitute to have around as you said.

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Dick

My Dad was a WWII Armed Guard Navy vet and he loved the stuff as do I. There is one rural restaurant in my area that serves it but only for breakfast. Every time I go there I order it and try to get the cook to add grits to the menu.

No success so far.

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There's a local breakfast buffet that has it. I love in on the home fries.

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Big Fred

The Army menu consists of hamburger in white gravy. Well maybe sausage in white gravy.

Down here in south Texas, a staple is "Sausage, Gravy and Biscuits". Pioneer Flour makes the best white gravy mix on the market. Make it in a small stewer, grill some ground sausage in a skillet, pour the white gravy over the sausage, ladle over toast, top with hot sauce and your in for a treat.

Some time when I feel like it, I'll hit Bill Millers for a qt. of their white gravy.

YUM YUM

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Both good, like the red best. Funny when I was on active duty I wasn't a big fan but as I got older I really acquired a taste for it. Maybe nostalgia.

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After twenty three years in the Army, I have Army and Marine Corps recipes, and probably some *******ized mixes from God knows where. I Commanded four Troop/Company sized units and, in every case my Mess Steward made SOS with hamburger. when I questioned one he proved to me that when made with chipped beef, the troops didn't like it enough to use up the portion the mess hall made. Google SOS for the Marine Commandants preferred recipe. Man, That's so good it'll make your tongue slap the roof out of your mouth!!! Eat hearty boys then take the Missus out and VOTE! Nick

Ain't nuttin like southern style biscuits and gravy . MMMMM good. I made some yesterday for my daughter.

I did shift work in the service and midnight chow was best with SOS and an omelet if you were lucky and they made them. I ate mostly in Army chow halls but preferred the AF ones myself.
I get the hankering for SOS at times and use beef burger or venison and use the AF recipe for it. My wife likes it too and she never served.

My late brother, when we were around our slightly prim mother, would refer to SOS as "superb on a shingle". Dad would just grin.

I love both versions, but prefer the chipped beef variety.

My late wife used to make a great hot beef dip using chipped beef, cream cheese, sour cream, etc., etc. It was always a hit at parties and pot-lucks. I need to dig out that recipe.

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My Dad made it at least once a week when we all were still yonkers. It was his favorite meal in the Army Air Corps/USAF--and was my favorite meal as a kid.

As a side note--I made a bunch of Sausages in a Roll just yesterday-in prep for having food for my pollworkers and I to snack on for Tuesday. I use Johnsonville Chedder-Cheese sausages and cut them up equal sizes--roll in dough--using the Croissant type dough. I cook them for 16 minutes--three more than time allotted--and mind come out perfect. Drooling now over the thought of having some when i get back home. I do say--that this is one meal I can brag about. :-))

Man, you are making me hungry !!..
Sounds about as good as fresh hog brains fried with scrambled eggs , gravy on the top, with home rolled biscuit's on the side, fresh churned butter and home made molasses ( circa 1955)

Frank, remember coming off a GQ drill and racing to the forward mess for a burger and find them cold and covered in congealed fat? No microwaves back then.

Thanks Smokewagon! I was trying to figure out what to eat tonight and remembered that I had some sliced roast beef from the deli.
I sautéed that in some butter, tossed in some flour, milk and salt, pepper.
Toasted some bread and viola! Almost instant meal.

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SOS chip beef on toast and covered with milk gravy GOOOOOOOOOOD

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Sounds like I am hungry for some!

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I do admit that these comeout perfectly and the tastes of the different ingrediants--are absolutely perfect. Sometimes I add a little more cheese--or even brush the dough before cooking-with Garlic butter.

SOS over biscuits for breakfast is great. Every now and then I like it over a fluffy baked potato for dinner, with the hot sauce of your choice.

Let's keep our terminology straight, shall we? Creamed chipped, or ground, Beef isn't SOS unless served over toast, the "shingle".

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Just a couple of nights ago my wife cooked some good hot country sausage, made some sawmill gravy, mixed the sausage in the gravy and served it on toast. Yum, good.

I've seen Navy galleys serve the ground beef in a white gravy or ground beef and rice inside of a bell pepper. Civilians called that stuffed bell peppers. The Navy instead of calling "on a shingle" called it "in a sea bag."

CW

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The best I ever had was at the enlisted mess hall at Camp Del Mar on Camp Pendleton California where I went to FMF school. It was deeeeevine.

I make it here at home using the Armour Star dried beef. It's pretty good and simple to make. I also make it using ground beef just for a little variety sometimes. I like it over toast or biscuits.

Note: If you use the Armour Star Dried Beef be SURE to rinse it in boiling water to the remove the salt it is preserved in. If you forget your first mouthfull will be all the salt you need for a month.

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I don't ever remember real chipped beef and gravy as a kid, we were quite poor. I do remember hamburger and white/brown gravy but mostly we had it as a patty and it was a real treat. We actually depended on the annual deer harvest for alot of our meat eating back in the lean days, of course when we were around my uncle Norman we ate venison all year long, he was a renowned for keeping meat on the table as well as keeping my grandma's pet Lynx cat in fresh venison, which was about all she would eat besides the odd squirrel or anything that was put in her pen live or the goose that happened to stick its head in a knothole...Christmas goose came a little early that year.
When I went in the Army was when I first tasted the real thing and I thought it was one of the best things you could do for breakfast. We had a first place winning messhall in Germany and their SOS was great poured over everything, all it needed was a liberal dosing of Crystal Louisiana hot sauce and it was heaven man...