Another Navy SOS recipe

[Gary_]

2 lbs. of ground hamburger, cooked until brown. Use baster to get all excess grease removed from pot. Add 1 can Cambell's Cream of Mushroom soup. Add 1 can of Cambell's cream of celery soup. Add 1 quart of (we use home canned tomatoes) can use two cans of tomatoes (not drained). Add 1/2 Can of Cambells Cheddar Cheese soup. Stir all ingredients together and warm to hot but not boiling. Ladle over slices of toast.
Add salt and pepper to taste, and can add more cheddar cheese soup if desired.

We make this for breakfast. The Navy called this Minced Beef on Toast.

[Big_Rig1]

My mother made it with a jar of chipped beef & a white gravy also only we ate it over a slice of white bread, no toast. I ate the same thing in the Army & everyone called it SOS. Seems like a lot of guys complained about it but I loved it & ate it up, very similar to what Mom made.....Yummy 🙂

Big Rig (John)

[Retired_andLove]

Jim Shoe wrote:

mikebte wrote:
Do all the recipes require a phillipino cook?
After getting out of the Navy I felt funny due to the lack of phillipinos in my life.
Still doo

The ship I served on had a lot of Filipino Commissarymen (cooks) aboard. At that time (late 60s - early 70s), many of them were E-3s, married, and wearing 20 years of service stripes. That's because none of them got out. As poor as that pay was, it was a fortune to their families back home. The very best of them worked in the Officer's Mess (Kitchen and Dining Room).
Excuse the wording. The Navy doesn't call anything the same as the rest of the world.

That was about the time the Navy combined the Stewardmate MOS and the Commisary Man MOS. I think the title was changed to Mess Management Specialist. Most of the Filipino MMS were Stewardmates before then. They cooked and served meals to the officers. I got out in "71 as a E-6. I started out as a meat cutter which was at one time part of the Commissary Man MOS.

[Jim_Shoe]

mikebte wrote:
Do all the recipes require a phillipino cook?
After getting out of the Navy I felt funny due to the lack of phillipinos in my life.
Still doo

The ship I served on had a lot of Filipino Commissarymen (cooks) aboard. At that time (late 60s - early 70s), many of them were E-3s, married, and wearing 20 years of service stripes. That's because none of them got out. As poor as that pay was, it was a fortune to their families back home. The very best of them worked in the Officer's Mess (Kitchen and Dining Room).
Excuse the wording. The Navy doesn't call anything the same as the rest of the world.

[mikebte]

Do all the recipes require a phillipino cook?
After getting out of the Navy I felt funny due to the lack of phillipinos in my life.

Still doo

[SAR_Tracker]

Jim Shoe wrote:
My Mom made it with a jar of chipped beef and served it over toast. The Navy made it with ground beef and served it over biscuits. I liked them both. My Mom's recipe was a holdover from the Great Depression. It was cheap. The Navy's recipe was all about massive quantities. If they used chipped beef, it would take them about a month to open all the jars. 🙂

Ate a lot of chipped beef as a kid too. And the USN version of SOS from 77-81 on my Tin Can.

[hilldude]

I was in USAF cooks trained at Army cook school,SOS was served.Also had eggs, breakfast was good Worked nights had breakfast twice a day.

[RayUSMC]

Jim Shoe wrote:
My Mom made it with a jar of chipped beef and served it over toast.

The Marine Mess always used chipped beef. Good stuff.

[Jim_Shoe]

My Mom made it with a jar of chipped beef and served it over toast. The Navy made it with ground beef and served it over biscuits. I liked them both. My Mom's recipe was a holdover from the Great Depression. It was cheap. The Navy's recipe was all about massive quantities. If they used chipped beef, it would take them about a month to open all the jars. 🙂

[BigBlockTank]

Valkyriebush wrote:

Gary. wrote:
Well it was a Navy concocktion, I don't know what they put in it but I tried to make it and that is the ingredients that I used. Simple==if you don't think it is good don't try and make it and just delete. I like the way everybody on this forum just tries to bad mouth everyone, or just looks for
the simplest thing to complain about. That's one reason I usually don't even bother posting on this forum anymore. Most people on here don't even have a life except this forum. There take that----

Seriously, you let this thread bother you like that!! It's only about a recipe. None are ever the same, trust me on this, it isn't about you, it's about the many variations of SOS. Your right though. Minced beef on toast was a different animal then SOS.

It's not about the recipe, it's about the negativity that Gary's talking about. I see it here all the time. It makes no difference what the subject is, a number of you will find something to be negative about. And do it in a fairly non-kind way. I'm like Gary, I don't post too much, because of the thumb thugs, or keyboard commandos, either way to want to call it. You know what I'm thinking about.
This could be a good forum, like a few others that I'm on a lot more than here, if people would stop trying to show who has the biggest man unit, and you know exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all have a wonderful week, and weekend.

[Tom_Trostel]

Gary, your recipe sounds good. I never cook for enough people now to try it though. For those who remember Army SOS, here is a link to the best small recipe I've found on line. My time in the Army spans from 1968 to 2005(with a 14 year break in service). The last 18 years was as a Mess Sgt at the company, battalion, and brigade levels. I retired as an E-8. I've made SOS for 360 soldiers many mornings.

Army SOS recipe

[Wanderlost]

I would not call it SOS, but it's interesting enough that I'll figure out a way to make it without using canned soups, since we can't have that much salt. I also detest canned mushroom soup - just tastes like metal to me.

We'd have to make cream of mushroom soup, cream of celery soup, and cheddar cheese soup. Set aside enough for this dish and eat the rest.

I'm seeing at least three meals here, before we even get to the ground beef and tomatoes...

[Gjac]

D.E.Bishop wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Never heard of it in my tie in NAVY

Remove the grease......:S

Did they really serve SOS in the Navy? Maybe to the Skimmers or Airdales but not to Smoke Boats.

They served SOS on the USS Columbus guided missile cruiser when I was on that ship from 69-71. I didn't like it then but I ate it. When you go 30 days without resupply it got down to powdered milk eggs,bug juice and other unrecognizable food stuff.

[Valkyriebush]

Gary. wrote:
Well it was a Navy concocktion, I don't know what they put in it but I tried to make it and that is the ingredients that I used. Simple==if you don't think it is good don't try and make it and just delete. I like the way everybody on this forum just tries to bad mouth everyone, or just looks for
the simplest thing to complain about. That's one reason I usually don't even bother posting on this forum anymore. Most people on here don't even have a life except this forum. There take that----

Seriously, you let this thread bother you like that!! It's only about a recipe. None are ever the same, trust me on this, it isn't about you, it's about the many variations of SOS. Your right though. Minced beef on toast was a different animal then SOS.

[Jim_Shoe]

I did my time on an aircraft carrier in Pensacola, FL. Sunday mornings the line was really short because anyone not on duty could sleep in. Because the line was so short, we had eggs made to order right in front of us. I've still never figured out how they could cook the yolks hard and leave the whites runny. 🙂