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Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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Originally Posted by OpenD
I just remembered... haven't seen it or even thought about it in many, many years... Chipped Beef in Cream Sauce on Toast, more commonly known by the profane military slang for the dish, or by its acronym of S.O.S.
As I recall the meat was was a pressed meat product, dried and very thinly sliced, then rolled up and packed in a jar. She'd chop the meat up into small shreds and stew it in a simple white sauce until the meat softened, then she'd spoon the thick glop over toast.
I have no idea what the appeal was. Maybe it was cheap?
I've eaten far "weirder" food than my parents, e.g., homemade venison jerky, deer and calf liver, rattlesnake, alligator, raccoon, squirrel, dried Japanese poisonous fish and once even a kangaroo rat roasted over a campfire and pork chops cooked over dried cow chips (to see how early pioneers in the southwest survived). Yep, that's exactly what the pork chops taste like!
vienna sausages, pickled pigs feet (mother was a real southern girl) and steamed okra---eww gross.
Well I am only southern when I want to be and that does not include any kind of Okra except maybe sauteed with tomatoes once a year or so..The pickled pigs feet was a favorite of my parents and my mother in law, but certainly not on my list of "what to buy today"
When my father left the Army, he cautioned my mother to never serve creamed, chipped beef on toast, beans on toast or spam. They ate a lot of other odd things - the sliced cucumber with vinegar, any starch with milk and sugar, pickled herring, Limburger cheese from a jar, matzo with butter. My mother would serve liver, but wouldn't touch any other offal after watching her father eat it for years.
To this day I won't touch SOS, liver, pickled herring, spam, or Limburger cheese.
Last edited by East Coast Wanderer; 09-02-2012 at 01:52 PM..
I haven't thought about this is years- and really kinda like it. My mom would get the dried beef that came in those small glasses- eat the dried beef, get a juice glass!
The good thing about dried beef is that you can just make more of the "gravy" if you have more mouths to feed.
Tomato sandwiches which consisted of: white bread, mayo, ripe tomatoes and black pepper.
That is a great sandwich.... I make them for lunch at work regularly. Put mayo on the bread (whole grain or sour dough), stick it in a baggie, grab a tomato and, at lunch, slice the tomato and add salt and pepper. If I have a ripe avocado, I'm really going gourmet!
Cabrito (goat) - My father was roasting one outdoors. As it was roasting on the spit, I thought is was a dog! It tasted really good.
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