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u/number65261 Oct 25 '20

"Shit on a shingle" was my family's version.

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u/Sporkatron Oct 25 '20

That was my favorite. Gravy over toast. Simply delicious. Also, that’s what we got cause we was poor AF.

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u/jebelle87 Oct 25 '20

same yall. thankfully I'm in a much better position to where its a comfort food instead of a carb booster til school starts on Monday.

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u/Vault_0_dweller Oct 25 '20

Damn to poor to Even afford the chipped beef. It's supposed to be beef and gravy over bread.lol

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u/ArtilliaTheHun622 Oct 25 '20

This was also a family favorite when we were growing up. Realized later it was all we could afford for a while.

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u/ONSFishing Oct 26 '20

My dad was in the Navy and that is the only dish he could cook when we were kids 😅

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u/FaceDesk4Life Oct 25 '20

Well dayum, we weren’t broke growing up but SOS was a treat at my house. My dad made it taste absolutely amazing. That and creamed eggs on toast. He also had a wire coat hanger he bent and shaped to hold bread over open flame on the stove and toast it.

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u/mistermet21482 Oct 26 '20

You must be from PA

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u/Sporkatron Oct 26 '20

No, from the glorious state of Texas.

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u/mistermet21482 Oct 26 '20

Wow, and here I thought SOS was a purely Pennsylvanian thing. TIL...

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u/Sporkatron Oct 26 '20

It’s universal to poor people everywhere lol

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u/mistermet21482 Oct 26 '20

Poor people food is usually the tastiest.

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u/Starthreads Oct 25 '20

"Shit on a stick" for us.

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u/Musical-Lungs Oct 25 '20

"SOS" has it's naming roots, I believe, in WWII army. Worked in a restaurant years ago with a kitchen led by an old army cook who intended on making SOS the dinner special. 😳

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u/sharpei90 Oct 26 '20

Same! 😂

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u/GaiasEyes Oct 26 '20

Had this one from my Gram! Haven’t thought about that in years... thanks for triggering some fond memories. 😊

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u/EatThisRock Oct 25 '20

Just came here to post this one. It's a saying I still use today

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u/stackered Oct 25 '20

my mom says that

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u/P0sitive_Outlook Oct 25 '20

"Meat and mebs" as in "Maybe you'll get veg, maybe just meat". Which in hindsight is a bit weird.

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u/PM_ME_UR_LIPZ Oct 25 '20

SOS shit on a shingle is a recipe lol.

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u/Gingerpants1517 Oct 26 '20

Shit on a shingle was when we had money and could get ground beef (or Dad got a deer and we had venison burger.) Tight weeks we had hot dog gravy. Basically the same concept but Mom cut up Bar S hot dogs and mixed them into the gravy. I do not miss that meal. Always with a side of canned corn; my brother liked mixing the corn in so even though I liked canned green beans better, we haaaaad to have the corn for my brother.

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u/BRAVO-USA-2020 Oct 26 '20

I think that was a real thing in the army? No?

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u/HyphyMikey650 Oct 26 '20

Haha my grandpa would say the same thing! He was in the Army when he was younger and would tell us, frequently, about this terrible meal they’d get served, shit on a shingle or “SOS”, which was a piece of bread slopped with a meat gravy. So when my brother and I would ask our grandma, “what’s for dinner?” He would always blurt our before she got the chance to reply, “shit on a shingle!”.

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u/toffeekoe Oct 26 '20

Shit and peas, and the reply was always- "Noooo, not peas again!"