Chip beef gravy mmm...good

[cougar14]

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

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.

 

[Jessie]

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.

 

[99savage308]

SOS chip beef on toast and covered with milk gravy GOOOOOOOOOOD

 

[vonn]

Sounds like I am hungry for some!

 

[the ringo kid]

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)

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.

 

[old bear]

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.

 

[Alk8944]

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

 

[Straightshooter2]

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

 

[walkin jack]

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.

 

[Kinman]

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...