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actually SOS, at least since the brown boot days (when I first went in), has been made from ground beef. There are a couple of variations (Army & Navy) but they are basically the same and involve undrained ground beef and worcestershire sauce. And toast (the shingle.)
Dad served on a ship during a time of war, with no supply depot next door, and all meat was canned. He said no one liked Spam, especially since that was breakfast every day. You could tell that Mom and Dad had no money, because we had Spam (cheapest meat available) on toast fairly often until Dad gave up on working a farm for someone else (two back operations). He made a lot more money as a salesman (he still holds a number of sales records). After that, he wouldn't touch Spam, and we had pancakes and ham nearly every day.
I like spam. Once every 10 years, and fried, with fresh tomatoes and lettuce with a big chunk of onion on the side.
Peanut butter without the crunchy is just glue that sticks to the roof of your mouth......................just sayin :(..........shucks looks like I gotta make some pancakes and try the crunchy :)
spam - official state food of Hawaii.
BigSky - we had canned and dehydrated meat on troop ships and in Korea in the early 60's. It was canned or dehydrated ground beef instead of spam (actually widely believed to be horse meat.) What was worse was powdered milk or eggs.
Dad did say that the first thing he wanted to do after discharge (after marrying Mom) was get to get to Grandpa's dairy and egg farm to get some real milk and eggs. And it appears that any military meat (horse, pig, cow, mule, armadillo) on toast was SOS.
For a late evening snack, I like to mix syrup with peanut butter and spread it on bread. Pretty tasty with a cup of milk..
Love this discussion! Brings back so many memories. As a kid we never had anything but a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast...never. Didn't know you ate fried eggs for breakfast till boot camp!
After being at sea a few days we'd run out of eggs and milk and went to the dried version. After about 6 weeks we replenished at sea once and took on 'fresh' eggs. The case
had 'cold storage, Italy, 1944' printed on the outside......and this was in about 1965!
Don't recall what SOS was make of but, there are two versions of it I do remember. One was white gravy with thin strips of unknown meat in it served on toast. The other was
more like hamburger helper served on toast also. Think the first was more Navy and the other Marine.
Ain't nothing like a bunch of guys getting together for breakfast and coffee to discuss.....breakfast.