JoeKahno

I'm the offspring of a couple of Marines, born on flag day. It took them a while to live that down. So far the only weird side effect I've noticed is being incapable of falling asleep in the same room a with dirty rifle. I have to either clean it or sleep elsewhere. Being able to locate your weapon in total darkness by smell isn't weird, not for any regular user of Hoppes or Break-Free CLP.

Don't know about the hamburger thing. I always thought SOS was a way to convert home made jerky into *real* food instead of just a snack.

Salamandrine 

C&V cycling food?

My grandfather, a retired USN chief and WW2 vet, used to rhapsodize about SOS all of the time, usually calling by its full name to irk my squarish mom (his daughter). He actually loved the stuff. My father, a retired IFNO (inside joke to former Marines), never mentioned it, though he must have had it. I used to eat it as a kid. It was still on the school lunch menu in the 70s, but made with hamburger instead of dried beef. "chipped beef on toast" not SOS.

verktyg 

My mother used to make SOS on Sunday mornings... With chipped dried beef or ground beef or Spam which she cut into little blocks like bricks. Always on toast. I liked the ground beef with Worcester sauce the best.

When I went into the Corps I was told I could have all the SOS I wanted... How can you take bad ingredients and make them worse? The MC got Grade D or Ungraded Beef!

One time on mess duty at PI, and old Sgt. cook, grabbed a mop out of my hands and used the wooden end to stir a big cauldron of something.

@RobbieTunes , @qcpmsame @sloar

"Fried Baloney" ? No one has mentioned HC (cold cuts).

I always hated the last week on board ship coming off of a cruise. We got fried baloney and undoctored baked beans 3 meals a day. The sailors were saving the "good" food for after we disembarked.

We used to squirrel away cases of C-Rats for the occasion. B-1 Units, B-2 Units, B-3 Units, MY OH MY! Ham-n-Limas were great for generating sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfate...

We always volunteered to be up on deck during high line replenishment at sea, especially before a landing. Good things like cases of canned ham, Spam, etc. got comshawed as they were getting passed below deck.

I was in the engineers. We used to sidle up to the Seabees on the beach, they had prime steak they cooked on Coleman grills. Once in a while they'd throw us a bone.

C-Rats were always better than field mess which guaranteed a case of the skids.


... every days a holiday and every meals a feast!

\

verktyg

verktyg 

You're not talking about "surströmming" are you?

"During the production of surströmming, just enough salt is used to prevent the raw herring from rotting while allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. According to a Japanese study, a newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world."

... ätit med massor av snaps!

verktyg

TommyTwoTone

I had SOS almost every morning when I was in the Air Force, I liked it then and I still like it, but I eat way less of it 50 years later because it will put the pounds on you later in life, so I treat myself to one small serving of SOS once a month. I miss the days when I could eat three squares a day and not gain weight, now I eat a salad, some yogurt and a piece of chicken for dinner.

stardognine

Yep, that's the can opener we recently talked about, somewheres here. 😁 On a similar note, of useful items, I just acquired this recently, for a quarter. 😎

RiceAWay

I was in the Air Force in a maintenance squadron and I can't remember seeing that much. I suppose it was there and I just avoided it.

beicster 

My dad was in during the Korean War and mostly deployed in Nevada as an airplane mechanic.