Brooklyn1 wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 10:35:39 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:32:25 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 22:17:06 -0500, Sqwertz
> > >> wrote:
> >>
> > > > On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:31:16 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> > > >
> >>>> All true... aboard ship all versions were prepared but SOS with
> dried >>>> chipped beef wasn't served all that often as it was the
> costliest meal >>>> served... I often added quartered hard cooked
> eggs as a stretcher... >>>> the crew liked it so much that they
> requested it without the chipped >>>> beef, they thought I invented
> the dish, I never told them otherwise. >>>> In 1960 eggs were cheap,
> dried chipped beef cost the navy $17/lb.
> > > >
> > > > You're mistaken. Dried chipped beef doesn't even cost that
> > > > much in 2015. And beef costs 8 times as much now as it did in
> > > > 1963.
> >>
> >> You as much as anyone should know that the grubbermint pays
> >> exhorbitant prices for everything, always did... but even so:
> >>
> http://www.amazon.com/Hormel-Dried-S...00CHTSEZA/ref=
> sr_1_3?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1438868881&sr=1-3&keywords=dried+chipped+
> beef >> At Amazon my math says it costs $1.50/oz or $24/lb.
> >
> > That's Amazon, you dolt. They have the highest food prices around
> > especially when it comes from third parties.
> >
> > At a real grocery store I paid $4.19 for a 5oz bottle of the
> > Whoremel dried beef which I used just a couple days ago to make
> > this (and will be eating the leftovers this morning):
> >
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwert...hotostream/lig
> > htbox/
> >
> > Even Walmart online sells it for $1.10/oz online - including
> > shipping.
> >
> > But what's perplexing is why you think the military was paying
> > 2020's retail prices for food back in 1960? These are not toilet
> > seats. The military was paying bargain basement prices for food
> > (which ispart of what the OP article is about!).
> >
> > Dried beef is pretty expensive for what it is, very low-quality
> > ground beef
>
> Actually it's not ground, it's a good cut of beef that's cured, dried,
> and shaved.
>

There are some really cheap versions formed of ground beef. Normally
seen at WalMart and such.

That was not what we got in the Navy. Dunno pricing as I was not a CS
but I suspect some level of price to get it to your ship would be
involved in the final stats on it.

Carol
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