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Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Not only do I not like SOS I also don’t eat biscuits and gravy.

Please make the fire big when you burn me at the stake
 
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Rcmaveric

Active Member
.... it seams every ship and station uses different things. I love SOS aswell. I dont like it when they use ground beef. Taste like bland regret and bad choices. I do love it with chipped beef and a dash of Texas Pete.
 

popper

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Mom's Chipped Beef on Toast! Usually the Armour stuff but every once in a while it was ground beef. Soppins was from the broiler and reserved for toast, if ou got there soon enough. Depending on what they (USN) wanted to get rid of, sometimes old sirloin sliced thin. Always had biscuits and weevils, sometimes the gravy. We'd get to shore party with the WWII steaks. Day after leaving US port, milk was all gone, you get the powdered stuff or bug juice.
I just thought it weird that USN bulk mailed enlisted incitements. She thought it was funny. Maybe I could get in as an O-5?
 
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Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
I have never eaten SOS.
Also, wait for it!!!
I have never eaten Spam.
Josh
 

popper

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Ah, Spam. First canned ham. Not too bad fried. Kinda like Twinkies, never will go bad. I did try some of the Nam era rations, not too bad.
 

Rick H

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Fried Spam & Eggs, could do worse for breakfast!!!!

Joshua you have led a deprived life, no SOS nor Spam? Shameful. Or is that depraved???? :rofl:
 
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RBHarter

West Central AR
My oldest says E4 @ 7 yr pays 2700/mo base rate .......

Ate a lot of chipped beef and creamed ham when I was a kid . I went through a phase when I was about 40 to try all of the things I remembered eating as a kid . Corned beef or pastrami Ruben is a toss as to whether I like it better with yellow mustard or 1000 island .
Pimento loaf was a let down but a little better with the mayo/mustard/ relish spread . Deviled ham was proof that I ate dirt . The last SOS I had , and I gave it every chance in 5 variations , got chewed and down but came with an advisory from the stomach that once was twice too many .
 

Rcmaveric

Active Member
Lol... spam isn't to bad with rice. Lol I am going to have to Google deviled ham. I dont know what that is. I do like souse though... funny that I like souse but but I hate bologna and hot dogs. My mom told me as a kid that hot dogs were made from Lips and buttholes and to not eat them. And I havent lol.
 
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Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
I grew up in Central California, the salad bowl of our great nation! Produce was fresh and available all year round. We ate artichokes cause the small ones were cheap by the bag. My grandma would pull over on the side of the road and cut heads of lettuce out of the fields, she told me that she knew the family. When I was little, the beef at our local markets was still local. After my parents divorced we ate a lot of burger. Most of it was made into taco meat, or spaghetti sauce.

My mom and grandma canned a lot, but it was always jam. No canned meats.

The mild climate and the availability of food has a lot to do with how people cook where I grew up.

But I have eaten deviled ham and Vienna Sausages.

Josh
 
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Ian

Notorious member
When I was kid my dog wouldn't eat any kind of processed meat, but would eat watermelon rind. He wouldn't even eat cured ham.
 

fiver

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the A.F. must have kept the recipe constant through the 80's cause we got chipped beef and a cream yellow colored sauce on toast from time to time too.

took Littlegirl up hunting again.
more does and fawns to make us grab the binoculars and waste more daylight.
finally seeing stuff here and there, but I'm beginning to think I have an astigmatism that doesn't allow me to see antlers on a deer.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Let's talk SOS, okay? As a kid my Mom made it with Armour dried beef, I loved it then and still do. When I was 9, I had a baaaad bout of pneumonia and ended up in a small town hospital. The next day they served dried beef SOS just like Mom's, I ate every bite and promptly barfed it up.
I have heard some folks say their experience with SOS was that it was ground beef in the milk gravy, (bechamel sauce), of course sausage gravy on biscuits is similar. Another favorite is asparagus in a bechamel on toast with grated medium cheddar.
Having had a draft lottery number of 244 in 1973 I never experienced SOS in the military. What is Uncle Sam's version?
I've eaten it at Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine chow halls and it was all different. Whatever the mess Sgt. wanted to call SOS. I prefer hamburger and second the Texas Pete.