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Michel Boucher[_3_] Michel Boucher[_3_] is offline
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> Do any of you upper-middle-aged Korean War Jar-Heads remember
> if SOS was chipped beef on toast or ground beef on toast?????


Stephen Ambrose, in Band of Brothers, says it was chipped beef:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_On_a_Shingle#U.S.
_military_cuisine

http://tinyurl.com/3m4rp26

Note that Chuck Palahniuk confirms it was chipped beef for the US
Navy as well.

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