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Originally posted by 229DAK:
My preference is sausage gravy on biscuits.

Me too. It's SOS's slightly more refined cousin.

But just slightly. Still just wet flour on top of dry flour, with some meat and spices mixed in.

My sister in law used to make it for my brother and I when we were in college. Never tried to make it, but now I want to give it a go.

My grandmother used to make creamed chipped beef for me sometimes; I stayed overnight with her almost every Friday night as a kid. We’d watch Lawrence Welk, Hee Haw, Chico and the Man, and Sanford and Son. Then cartoons all morning on Saturday. My gosh I miss those carefree days sometimes…

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Originally posted by SigFan:
We’d watch Lawrence Welk, Hee Haw, Chico and the Man, and Sanford and Son. Then cartoons all morning on Saturday. My gosh I miss those carefree days sometimes…

Those were the days indeed! And to think people thought Road Runner cartoons were violent! Good grief of what is on TV today. I watched “Little Rascals” every morning before going to school and “Leave it to Beaver” when I could. I never had cable growing up, just four channels.

I love it, chipped beef, hamburger, sausage...

(grew up on it)

Later--
In the US of Air Force, (when I was a young pup) I ate at the chow hall Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, then set my alarm, got up, put my fatigues on and went to midnight chow (air crew chow hall).

And got SOS and Smash Browns anytime they had them.

I now love to make SOS with 85/15% ground beef, cooked "smash burger" style, crispy, Maillard browned, (cover with salt, fresh course ground black pepper, lottsa garlic powder on both sides) homemade peppered white sawmill gravy with aminal fats!
Or, with deer or other sausage hot and spicy. With some extra spicy.

And add some more spicy.

Ima die stuffed, and happy.

Ain't none of us gettin' out of here alive.


Mmmmm, mmmm mmmm....

Worst G.I. "entree": SOS by far. In second place would be grits.

I was an abused child. I loved to embrace the suck.

But, hard pass on grits...

Nope.

Cat litter.

Bleached coffee grounds in salt water.

Floor sweepings in the saw mill after a hard rain...


Oh, look... "SOS!!!!"

My step-grandma made it. She used sliced hardboiled eggs with chipped beef in gravy- over pillsbury flaky biscuts. My step dad called it “Mennonite gravy” or something like that. My grandpa said in ww2 they called it SOS and when someone wanted more gravy they’d yell out “shoot the grease!”

I like SOS made with most meats and poured over about any bread
My wife makes an awesome Sausage gravy

Just opened up a package of the Creamed Beef bought yesterday. It's not the boil in bag stuff I'm used to seeing from Stouffer...it's in a tray for microwave or oven. And I get 59% of my sodium daily intake from it.

Normally I pick up Esskay brand Creamed Chipped Beef from the refrigerated section, but I didn't see it in that particular store. May hit my usual store today and see if Stouffer has monkeyed with things, smaller portion, higher sodium, in the name of convenience. (ETA: according to Stouffer's website, the only Creamed Chipped Beef entree now is the microwavable one in the tray. FWIW, a good portion of this morning's offering boiled out of the tray/wrap and it was not as good as I remembered the previous offering. They have portion pacs for restaurants in the Professional line.)

I knew a couple of Navy CPO/PO1 Mess Management Specialists back when who could whip up a batch of the real deal that had most of the ship's company going back for seconds.

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I enjoy it all, knowing, like Fettuccini Alfredo, it's a heart attack on a plate. Therefore, in complete moderation. Processed foods will never appear in our house.

Esskay brand Creamed Chipped Beef Has been discontinued by the manufacturer.

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
Might try this; look for it in the frozen section.

Stouffer's Creamed Chipped Beef contains the following ingredients:

Skim Milk
Water Dried Beef Chunked and Formed (Beef, Salt, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite, and BHT, TBHQ, Citric Acid Added to Protect Flavor )
Soybean Oil
Bleached Wheat Flour
Modified Food Starch (or Modified Cornstarch in some formulations)
Seasoning (Maltodextrin, Flavor, Enzyme Modified Butterfat)
Spices (including extractives of Annatto and Turmeric)
Preservatives: BHA and BHT (in some seasoning blends)

Hard pass, for me

This was in mom's general rotation. A lot of times it would be sans meat and she'd use veggies instead...mostly peas, and she'd take Wonder bread, push it into muffin tins, and toast them in the oven to form them into a cup shape and then fill the cup with the goodness. Stick to your ribs food!

While an Army 94B cook, I made some really kick ass SOS, aka Creamed Beef which is the Army version made with ground beef and not dried chipped beef which I never saw. The trick was to add powdered beef base and Worcestershire sauce and lots more black pepper than the standard recipe which was blehh and bland and only called for salt and pepper.

Hardly ate the stuff myself but the troops I cooked for loved it, a lot of them would have me put it over runny eggs.

I remember reading years ago the only reason this even became a thing in the US military was back around the time of World War I when the Army and Navy had lots and lots of surplus dried beef left over from the Spanish American War era and they had to find a way to use it up.

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Originally posted by festus haggen:
Esskay brand Creamed Chipped Beef Has been discontinued by the manufacturer.

I can still find it at Shopper's down the street. For now. What is up with Esskay? First, they discontinued their Baltimore Orioles hot dogs (my go to) and now...Oops; they were bought out by Smithfield several years ago.

Armour dried beef:

Beef
Salt
Sugar
Sorbitol
Sodium Erythorbate
Sodium nitrite

One serving (30g/90cal) has 1,430mg of salt.

Make your own.

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SOS with ground beef is a frequent lunch for me, takes about 15 minutes to make. I put it over a small microwaved baked potato. Slap yo mamma seasoning is great on it.

Mom's was great.
The new microwave stuff is edible, if you aren't picky.


Another favorite from days long past is chicken pot pie, not the banquet stuff .
Now it's Marie Calander.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Another favorite from days long past is chicken pot pie