WHO LIKES S0S FOR BREAKFAST?

[crazyphil]

Of course I am referring to that delicious breakfast item we
always found on the menu at our favorite mess hall.

Just call me crazy, but I kinda liked SOS for breakfast.

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.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

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.

 

[Targets Guy]

Big SOS fan.

 

[sodacan]

My father was a WWII vet. He used to talk about it, but I never knew if really liked it or not. The thought of it makes me nauseous.

 

[345sire]

Used to really enjoy that, even in civilian life. Been ages since I had it, but would love to get it again.
Don't really care what kind of meat it is, meat's meat!

 

[walkin jack]

I LOVE it!! I make it here at home. Sometimes using the Armor dried beef and some times using ground sirloin. Stauffers puts it out in frozen packages but it isn't as good as home made.

 

[Trooper224]

No. I hated the smell of it when my mother made it for my father, a career marine. I hated it when it was served on the mess deck during my servitude to Uncle Sugar. I don't live vicariously through the memories of my youth, so I still hate it.

 

[Lee Barner]

got introduced to it at Lackland AFB in 69 and had it off and on for 21 years. the best I ever had was made by our chefs at a remote site in Turkey. now I prefer sausage gravy and biscuits. good old southern breakfast with a couple of over easy eggs on top. yummmm. lee

 

[les.b]

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

 

[Jessie]

It's like pizza...good for breakfast, lunch or supper

 

[STCM(SW)]

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

 

[Jessie]

I admit that I haven't had it in a while but after this thread I see some in the near future...maybe make some with chopped up, fried SteakUm meat.

 

[pharmer]

Quick version, 1 # ground beef in one can cream ofmushroom soup. Spoonon toast. Mmmm good. Joe

 

[Gimlet6]

Loved it for 22 years. Still make it about once per month. Wife does not like it. Oldest son (veteran) loves it.

 

[29aholic]

I like it with chipped beef.

 

[HARDWARE]

no. this is my typical preference if i stop for breakfast

 

[vt_shooter]

I wish I could have SOS for breakfast, but I'm trying to keep my weight in check. The cooks in the AF made the best breakfasts - omlet with anything you wanted in it, hashbrowns, SOS, big huge OJ. If I ate now like I did 40 years ago in the AF I'd weigh 800 pounds.

 

[Infidel137]

It was my favorite thing in the mess hall, second overall only to the beans and weenies C-ration.

 

[amazingflapjack]

I remember one of my buddies in VN-an E-6-saying he knew he had been in the Army too long, shaking his head. So I said, "what do you mean?" and he replied that he had gotten up early (we worked at night) because they were having SOS at the mess hall!

 

[ExRanger714]

For a change of pace make it with bulk breakfast sausage. Use the sausage grease to make gravy for biscuits.

 

[Skeet 028]

SOS is great stuff. we make it for din din(hamburger gravy over mashed taters...and always make enough to have the next morning over toast with an aig or 2. Even the picky snotball granddaughter loves it. Chipped beef in cream gravy is also good stuff. When I shot a lot of deer years ago I would thinly slice one whole critter dry it and freeze it for making with gravy fer breakfast. Out here in Wyoming it is almost impossible to find chipped beef for that morning staple,,,and it is impossible to find any kind of scrapple...I still got to go back east and get me about 30 lbs of that

 

[StakeOut]

I don't make my own SOS anymore so my craving is satisfied about once every week to 10 days with the store bought frozen Stoffer's chipped beef.

Before my time in the military I never ate SOS.

About every 3 days I eat cooked oatmeal aka Old Fashion(hate the quick oats variety) with fresh berries and bananas.

 

[BearBio]

My only real memory of the chow line was the morning I put milk and sugar on my scrambled eggs! Yuck!

 

[jtcarm]

Real stick-to-your-ribs breakfast that will carry you through to lunch.

And a real stick-to-your-arteries meal to boot!

 

[TTSH]

I wish I could have SOS for breakfast, but I'm trying to keep my weight in check. The cooks in the AF made the best breakfasts - omelet with anything you wanted in it, hashbrowns, SOS, big huge OJ. If I ate now like I did 40 years ago in the AF I'd weigh 800 pounds.

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!

 

[pmanton]

I love SOS. I'm trying to lose weight so it's on hold for a while.

 

[cybermgk]

My Dad, a Korean War Vet, must have missed it. My mother would make it (sometimes for lunch and Dinner as well). Homemade gravy, but then she would often use Buddig, pressed meat beef for sandwiches.

Grew up on it, even before I entered the Military.

"What are we having for dinner, Dad?"
"Mustard, Custard and ****". "Oh, and we're all out of Mustard and Custard".

 

[zzzippper]

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.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I have liked it since boyhood. Dad (GI) served it over toast, biscuits, eggs, fried taters, it didn't matter. My family and I enjoy it anytime and alternate between dried and ground beef.

I like mine with a sprinkling of garlic powder and sriracha.

 

[Redbert31]

My dad was in the Navy and he liked it so much he used to make it at home [emoji854][emoji4]

Big SOS fan.

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