SOS - without a doubt - one of the best meals in a chow hall..
PLUS - you knew if you were eating it - you were somewhere safe! NOT in the boonies!
I was once served a meal - very similar to SOS, in a Louisiana Gulf side restaurant that used dark gravy and larger chucks of salted meat over Rye toast with onions, carrots and celery and it was positively DELICIOUS.....
I spoke to the cook - an old Navy cook aboard submarines - and he said there is NO END to the variety that can build upon to make SOS more delicious that even the original....
I thought I would cry from joy, and the memories it rekindled.
I wonder if they STILL serve SOS in Chow Halls?
Good question. I wonder if our young troops would try it.
“I wonder if they STILL serve SOS in Chow Halls?”
They do...at the galley at NAS Pensacola and the chow hall in Katterbach, Germany, at least...GOOD STUFF! :)