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Nancy2 > wrote:


> Chipped dried beef and SOS are two different dishes. The military is
> famous for SOS which is ground beef, browned and then added to the
> white gravy. Chipped (diced) dried beef is completely different
> because it uses thinly-sliced dried beef, not ground beef. Duh.


My understanding (and I was never in the military) was that the original
SOS was made with dried beef. Well, that stuff just isn't cheap
anymore, and even though it kept without refrigeration, either they had
refrigeration or they switched to individual rations. So, the military
switched to using ground meat for SOS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef_on_toast

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA