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Section 22: Military Topics Subject: Be A Sea Soldier Msg# 1146005
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Mark, what you were enjoying is commonly known as "sausage gravy" and traditionally served on a biscuit, it's a breakfast staple south of the Mason-Dixon.
SOS uses "chipped dry beef" that is sold at deli counters and chipped to order. It's served in a milk based sauce over toast and is primarily a Northeastern breakfast. The beef is air dried and tends to be on the salty side. What we were served in the Air Force and I expect it was the same in the other branches as well was hamburger in a cream sauce, they referred to it as "creamed beef on toast" AKA SOS. Dried beef runs about $12.00 a pound or more, a half pound, when chipped, makes enough for a breakfast for a few people. Hamburger on the other hand today runs about $4.00 a pound so you tell me what our Uncle Sam would have provided the troops? |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: No mystery, but I learned to love SOS in the Air Force, as they made it with sausage. When I was a kid growing it up my mom made it with what she called "chipped beef," but which was actually that very thin-sliced sandwich meat. She served it one toast instead of biscuits, as the original was served. I liked it fine, but the original as made by the military (and good breakfast restaurants, especially down south) was even better. I never ate in an Air Force chow hall that didn't serve "biscuits and gravy," aka SOS. |
