"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> Nancy2 > wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef_on_toast
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> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
>
My husband served in the military (USMC) as did an acquaintance of his who
was in US Navy during WWII.
His acquaintance was in the military much earlier than my husband and he got
creamed chipped beef (hates it to this day). My husband got the ground beef
stuff so what you said makes perfect sense.