WHO LIKES S0S FOR BREAKFAST?

[sniper]

...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

OOOoo..BITE your tongue, Yankee Boy! I was raised on Grits, and my favorite breakfast is Grits with lots of bacon and egg mixed in them! Talk about Ambrosia! Of course, now, I like Jimmy Dean Sausage mixed with 'em!
It's a Southern thing!

But...to each his own!

 

[sniper]

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.

I bet you never tried the chicken C-rats....we had to eat them at Thule, when we were confined to the barracks and the wind off the ice cap got up to Phase 3... about 80 mph or thereabouts, and the wind chill would freeze a hand in ~ 2 minutes! (That's what we were told, and I always wondered how they discovered that?) Of course, ours were leftovers from the Korean Unpleasentness! YUK!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Having eaten this, I am convinced that I can eat anything.

 

[paulh]

Having eaten this, I am convinced that I can eat anything.

Yeah, lived on that forever after landing at what is know now as Chu Lai and yes you can eat anything. As far as SOS never had it til PI and then you ate everything.

 

[joeintexas]

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.[/QUOTE]

 

[joeintexas]

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.[/QUOTE]

Got a steak in Juarez, Mexico years ago, not saying it was horse but you could still see where the jockey used his quirt on its behind! With enough Tecate I got it down.

 

[Skeet 028]

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.

I have eaten horse meat, goat, sheep, mountain lion, and even tried a piece of (cooked) cobra. Some was edible... don't eat goat or sheep or horse. Definitely no snake. Big kitty was ok but don't want to eat it again....and don't care for musrat or possum either. After dragging up a dead body in my net back when I was a kid, I also swore off eating crabs for many years. Many years!

 

[kthom]

Rusty,
When I opened a C-Rat and found the Ham and Lima Beans, I either just didn't eat, or once in a while found someone who was needing the smokes in the box so badly that I could trade my box of smokes and the H&LB's for whatever he had. I have eaten a lot of nasty things, but for me, the H&LB's is at the very top of my long time list of very bad stuff. I'll eat nearly anything, especially if hungry, but I will NOT eat H&LB's!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Yep, ham & muthas were pretty rank but I found that they were more palatable if instead of a spoon they were eaten with Thai sticks.

 

[kthom]

I can't imagine how Thai sticks would improve the H&LB's, but I'll take your word for it! Been tryin' to scrub your pictures outa my mind ever since I saw them ...

 

[sniper]

Alligator isn't bad...if you're hungry!

 

[Filo McShoe]

After basic in 73 I went to Lowery AFB where the AF cook tech school was took a few years to eat SOS again or anything else for that matter.
Now days the wife and I pick up the frozen Stouffer's Creamed Chipped Beef once in a while it's not too bad.

 

[JamesArthur60]

I don't recall which AFB I first had SOS, but consider me a fan. Military SOS, not that fake **** you get at the local restaurant. Nope, I mean the real GI SOS. Speaking of the late 60's early 70's, I can't speak for today's military SOS.

 

[da gimp]

Love the SOS & most varieties of it..

chipped beef , beef hamburger, venison all in white gravy over toast or bread will all be ok ... My preferred breakfast is fried apples as a side with sausage gravy over good biscuits...(not frozen or canned biscuits) is great. If I can't get good biscuits I'd just as soon as eat it over toast or bread. But generally I eat whatever my lady puts before me & tell her thank you for a good meal...4 recipes (meals) that didn't turn out as we hoped in 39 years plus is a dern good record for her cooking.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

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

I can't think of a better recommendation! Well said.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Rusty,
When I opened a C-Rat and found the Ham and Lima Beans, I either just didn't eat, or once in a while found someone who was needing the smokes in the box so badly that I could trade my box of smokes and the H&LB's for whatever he had. I have eaten a lot of nasty things, but for me, the H&LB's is at the very top of my long time list of very bad stuff. I'll eat nearly anything, especially if hungry, but I will NOT eat H&LB's!

Ham & Lima Beans were the absolute armpit of C-ration dining. We're not talking about "baby limas" (which I like), we're talking about big, nasty, stringy, lima beans about the size of a large man's thumb. You could chew all day and end up with a mouth full of fibrous garbage, impossible to swallow, impossible to get the residue off your teeth.

When we received resupply runs the C-rations came on a pallet. If allowed to do so, everyone would pick and choose what they wanted and leave nothing but Ham & Limas for the other guys. One of my more painful duties as NCOIC was overseeing the distribution of rations so that there would not be open warfare among the troops. Not a popular guy on those days.

For those who have not had the pleasure, the lima beans we are discussing were so large, so stringy, so unmanageable to the molars, that the troops referred to them as Ham & Claymores (a reference to the anti-personnel mines we used for perimeter defense and ambushes, a curved plastic-bound casing of plastic explosive and steel ball bearings, could be aimed to cover a wide arc, command-detonated or could be set up with trip-wires, truly nasty devices).

Ham and Claymores! Never again!

 

[LoboGunLeather]

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!

Corn meal mush was a staple in our house when I was growing up. Leftover corn meal mush was formed into patties and fried in bacon grease as a special treat!

 

[onebadvet]

I can truthfully say with 24 years in the service, I have never ate it.

My motto is anything that looks that bad on plate will never be on my plate.

I'm egg & potato type of guy, with couple pancakes with it.

 

[Kinman]

While in the Army I loved SOS, I was always hungry in boot camp and ate everything they put on my plate. While stationed in Germany our post had won many honors for having the best mess hall. The old E7 that ran it was a genius at trading with the locals. We could have our fresh eggs anyway we liked them and his SOS was always first rate, it was made from german sausage, heavy gravy. I always had poured over a large mound of scrambled eggs and hash browns then added a couple good doses of Balls Louisiana Hot Sauce...which is what the cooks used to clean their cook tops. I don't think I've ever had better bisquits and gravy that was a good as the SOS that mess hall served up. Top rate breakfast in my book, not that I haven't fared better with cheesy grits, bacon , all kinds of ham, sausages...never was all that crazy about pancakes, rather have meat and taters, eggs. I once went to an "ALL YOU CAN EAT" breakfast. They asked me what I wanted, I said " four eggs sunnyside up, half a rasher of bacon, two pancakes and fresh coffee." Is that all the pancakes you want? Yeah I didn't come here for pancakes. I even asked for more eggs and bacon plus one pancake, more coffee.

 

[crazyphil]

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.

I love calves liver & onions, but I don't get it often because
my wife can't stand it.