"cybercat" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>> Andy wrote:
>>> Creamed chipped beef with gravy on English muffins with a tall glass
>>> of water with a multivitamin. During a.m. laundry.
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>> Please Andy, will you describe what 'Creamed chipped beef ' is?
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> It is dried chipped beef (think preserved with salt, the old fashioned
> way) in a super salty, super fatty white sauce, usually served on toast.
> Called in WW II by the soldiers who apparently had to eat it too often,
> "shit on a shingle."
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> About the last thing in the world Andy should be eating.

Actually no. You can make it without so much fat as is customary, 2
tablespoons of bacon fat will get you 2 pints of very satisfying gravy. You
can omit the bread and serve it over eggs and add some fiber source like
melon and you've got a dandy low carb breakfast. A good diabetic breakfast.

Paul