WHO LIKES S0S FOR BREAKFAST?

Walkin' Jack said:
The best SOS I ever had, and I've had it in a whole lot of mess halls was far and away at Camp Del Mar on Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base, which lies between San Diego and Los Angeles, in the early '60s. I was there for my Fleet Marine training.

The enlisted mess hall was an award winning facility. It was comparable to ordinary staff NCO or even jr officer mess in other Marine Corps bases. Actual tables and chairs an the food was actually restaurant quality.

Breakfast was the best meal of the best meal of the day, EVERY day; eggs and steak, bacon, sausage, and/or ham cooked to order, toast, biscuits, pancakes, potatoes grits and gravy. all you wanted.

And The SOS was made with ground beef but it still blew what ever was in 2nd place away big time.

It was all truly amazing. I was lucky to have been able to enjoy it for a few weeks.
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That reminds me of the dining hall at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. I ate there while assisting Secret Service in guarding the President. (JFK.)

Three strengths of coffee and five desserts!

Overall, though, SOS was among several factors that caused me to decline reenlistment.
 
BigBill said:
Growing up in a italian family nothing goes to waste. I've eaten every part of a cow, most everything. But I grew up on that stuff. My point is if I grew up on grits I'd like that too. I never had them.
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My mom's dad was a butcher. She used to tell us that when
her dad butchered a pig the only part they did not eat was
the "oink".
 
Loved the stuff! Only we didn't have it often enough. I got in trouble one day when I remarked in the NCOIC's hearing that it was funny they had bulllfights every Sunday in Juarez, and we had steak Mondays in the chow halls. He was extremely annoyed that I would even think that!
 
sniper said:
Loved the stuff! Only we didn't have it often enough. I got in trouble one day when I remarked in the NCOIC's hearing that it was funny they had bulllfights every Sunday in Juarez, and we had steak Mondays in the chow halls. He was extremely annoyed that I would even think that!
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No sense letting that meat go to the trash,,,,,,,,,,,
Hey, waste not want not, right? :D
 
Texas Star said:
That reminds me of the dining hall at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. I ate there while assisting Secret Service in guarding the President. (JFK.)

Three strengths of coffee and five desserts!

Overall, though, SOS was among several factors that caused me to decline reenlistment.
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I was once sent on assignment for 2 weeks at the Academy. You are correct, the food there was top quality. Even table cloths! I had forgotten about that. Officers had it a bit better than us enlisted folks.
 
sniper said:
Loved the stuff! Only we didn't have it often enough. I got in trouble one day when I remarked in the NCOIC's hearing that it was funny they had bulllfights every Sunday in Juarez, and we had steak Mondays in the chow halls. He was extremely annoyed that I would even think that!
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Those bullfight victims don't go to waste. There will be a butchering facility somewhere on site where the bulls are gutted, skinned, and the carcasses quartered. I saw that once at a bullfight in Nuevo Laredo. Those Mexican butchers were quick, took very little time for them to disassemble a bull. I don't know where the meat went after that. In Mexico, cattle heads are a great favorite, usually sold intact. That's where barbacoa comes from.
 
Recipes please folks.

I love food threads!

I remember Dad making SOS in the '50's with a cured meat that came in a little glass container but haven't had it in many, many years.

Now I want some, but I need the best detailed recipe.

Let's hear 'em.
 
Rpg said:
I love food threads!

I remember Dad making SOS in the '50's with a cured meat that came in a little glass container but haven't had it in many, many years.

Now I want some, but I need the best detailed recipe.

Let's hear 'em.
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There's a pretty good recipe in one of the links on the first page.

Otherwise make it basically like B&G's but use chipped beef instead. Hormel still makes the dried beef in a can, but I have also used the sliced chip beef you get in a pouch in the cooler section. I like mine on Texas toast.
 
The dining hall for the Tech School side of Lackland AFB in 1980 had the best SOS I ever ate in my 28 years in the Air Force. Every morning I was there, I had it over the less than stellar scrambled eggs.
 
safearm said:
The dining hall for the Tech School side of Lackland AFB in 1980 had the best SOS I ever ate in my 28 years in the Air Force. Every morning I was there, I had it over the less than stellar scrambled eggs.
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The chow hall on the basic training side in 1968 had me second guessing my decision to join the Air Force, if prison had been an option I might have pondered that decision a second or two. You are right about the scrambled eggs, they were brutal. I imagined chickens all over south Texas hanging their heads in shame.
 
TTSH said:
Funny. I wasn't in the service (or in prison), but I love certain institutional foods, especially for breakfast. :) Is something wrong with me? :D

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. :p I've been trying to duplicate the flavor at home for almost a year now, but I'm not even close. :confused:

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! ;)
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The best link sausages I have ever had are the ones a restaurant serves at Mountaineer Resort and Casino in West Virginia.
 
SOS for breakfast?

I worked second shift all my life, third shift second and day shift last. You know I could eat anything at anytime. We would eat t bone steaks at 5:30am. I'm still that way today. I light the grill at 11pm and breakout the dogs and burgers. Second shift was the best I got to fish before work.
 
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!
 
les.b said:
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
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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.
 
les.b said:
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
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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(?)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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!!!!!!

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