Creamed chipped beef on toast

Chipped beef on toast (or creamed chipped beef on toast) is a foodstuff comprised of a creamy sauce and rehydrated slivers of dried beef, served on toasted bread. In military slang it is commonly referred to with the dysphemism "Shit On a Shingle" (SOS). Creamed chip beef on toast. ... Creamed chip beef on toast. ... Jump to: navigation, search Food is any substance consumed by living organisms, including liquid drinks. ... Jump to: navigation, search Military organizations, like nearly all large exclusive organizations, develop slang as means of self-identification. ... In language, both dysphemism (from the Greek dys δυς= non and pheme φήμη = speech) and cacophemism (in Greek cacos κακός = bad) are rough opposites of euphemism, meaning the usage of an intentionally harsh word or expression instead of a polite one. ...

Wentworth and Flexner^[1] cite no origin, but note that "shingle" for slice of toast has had "some use since c1935" in the U. S. Army, mostly in the expression "shit on a shingle," and that the latter had "wide W. W. II Army use."

Modern chipped beef product

Chipped beef itself is a dried, smoked, and salted meat product. The modern product consists of small, thin, flexible leaves of partially dried beef, generally sold compressed together in jars or flat in plastic packets. Hormel describes it as "an air-dried product that is similar to bresaola, but not as tasty."^[2] Modern chipped beef product Image copyright ©2005 by Daniel P. B. Smith and dual-licensed by Daniel P. B. Smith as shown below. ... Modern chipped beef product Image copyright ©2005 by Daniel P. B. Smith and dual-licensed by Daniel P. B. Smith as shown below. ... Hormel Foods Corporation NYSE: HRL is probably best known as the producer of SPAM luncheon meat. ... Bresaola (also known as beef prosciutto outside Italy) is air-dried salted beef fillet that has been aged about 2-3 months until it becomes very hard and a dark red, almost purple colour. ...

Modern chipped beef product, showing coiled packing

In the U. S., chipped beef on toast is emblematic of the U.S. military experience, much as yellow pea soup is in Finland. "Chipped beef on toast (S. O. S.)" is, in fact, the title of a book of military humor. In his World War II book Band of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose evokes the military basics: Modern chipped beef, showing coiled packing in jar Image copyright ©2005 by Daniel P. B. Smith and dual-licensed as shown below. ... Modern chipped beef, showing coiled packing in jar Image copyright ©2005 by Daniel P. B. Smith and dual-licensed as shown below. ... Nutrition information for typical pea soup. ... Jump to: navigation, search Poster for Band of Brothers. ... Stephen Ambrose, at the 2001 premier of Band of Brothers Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 - October 13, 2002) was a popular historian and biographer of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. ...

At the end of May, the men of Easy packed up their barracks bags and ... [took] a stop-and-go train ride to Sturgis, Kentucky. At the depot Red Cross girls had coffee and doughnuts for them, the last bit of comfort they would know for a month. They marched out to the countryside and pitched pup tents, dug straggle trenches for latrines, and ate the Army's favorite meal for troops in the field, creamed chipped beef on toast, universally known as SOS, or Shit on a Shingle.^[3]

Individual sliver of chipped beef

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the dark-blue coveralls crewmen wear while on patrol are no longer called "poopie suits." Crewmen who serve on the mess deck are no longer "mess cranks." Sauerbraten is not "donkey dick." Ravioli isn't "pillows of death." Creamed chipped beef on toast isn't "shit on a shingle."^[4]

Chipped beef was, of course, also a component of ordinary civilian cuisine. Its use was common in the U.S. a few decades ago. A 1965 edition of the Fannie Farmer cookbook gives two recipes for preparing chipped beef ("Separate the slices and remove any stringy bits...") and two that use it as an ingredient. It is still readily available as of 2005 but, like SPAM, has declined greatly in popularity due to a reduced need for foods that can be stored without refrigeration. Currently, there are several restaurants in the US that serve chipped beef on toast, most notable is the steakhouse buffet chain known as Golden Corral. They often have a container of this on the hot bar along with many other local favorites during their breakfast buffet serving hours. Sauerbraten is a typical Rhineland, Saarland and Silesia roast. ... Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 March 1857 - 15 January 1915) was an American culinary expert whose book, The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook, became a widely used culinary text. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A can of SPAM SPAM is a canned pork product that has entered into folklore. ...

See also

• Chipped beef on toast, a historical 1910 Army recipe for preparing "enough for 60 men"

References

• ^  Ambrose, Stephen E. (2001) Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
• Bertram, Charles S. (2003), Chipped Beef on Toast (S. O. S.), ISBN 0741415542
• ^  Beef-Dried (Hormel website)
• ^  Pahlahniuk, Chuck (2004) Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories Doubleday, ISBN 0385504489
• ^  Wentworth, Harold, and Stuart Berg Flexner (1967), Dictionary of American Slang, supplemented edition. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York.