Except for the pie (there wasn’t any), this was one of the most popular school lunch meals in central Indiana. They did fake us out by using turkey instead of chicken and adding chicken bouillon. They also fed us sweet potato pie at Thanksgiving and told us it was pumpkin pie!
Home made is better since the noodles can be hand made and the taters won’t be from flakes.
I am intrigued. I like sugar; I like cream.
Is this anything like the Southern “chess pie” which is basically a pecan pie without the pecans?
NVM google is my friend.
Sounds similar, with one key ingredient missing due to rationing hardships at the time:
I have learned many pie-related facts tonight.
I’d like to nominate a chip butty.
It is two slices of soft white bread spread with real butter, then covered in hot potato chips (proper thick-cut ones) and then it is up to the devourer if they would like just lashings of salt, or perhaps vinegar or tomato sauce.
Bonza munger.
And none of those damn S & P grind your own things
ISWYDT, Max. 
You realize, of course, that “potato chips” are something very different from simple “chips.” (“Crisps” vs “French fries.”) 
I didn’t have time to make a proper meal the other day, so I pigged out on fried Spam butties with BBQ sauce. Yum-O! 
I thought my post was clear about what sort of chips I meant. I even included a picture! And for the record, the only time ‘fries’ are mentioned in Australia is when buying McDonalds. Everywhere else they’re chips.
When I read the post, I immediately pictured slices of bread stuffed with these:
I suspected you meant these
but I wasn’t sure until I clicked on the link.
A beef commercial (or hot beef) sandwich. No, it’s not a sandwich. It’s a slice of bread with a scoop of mashed potato on it, drenched in beef gravy with chunks of shredded roast beef. A scoop of veg on the side. Hot turkey works as well. Serve on alternate days during winter.
Replace it in summer with a BLTA sandwich or wrap.
Is the diner term for that a “Hopalong Cassidy”?
Love this thread. Pretentious restaurants have ruined eating out. I just want a Denver omelet with hash browns. White toast. Grape jelly.
I saw a chili-size earlier. I second this.
For me it’s roast beef, mashed potatoes and a ton of brown gravy. Unlike @carnut, no veg needed. And to make you jealous, I just ate at a restaurant and has the white bread, mashed potato, roast beef, gravy stack. It was soooooooooo 70s and sooooooooo good.
Something I haven’t had for nearly 50 years. Grandma’s Okinawan pig’s feet and chicken soup (two different soups) and her andagi (Okinawan donut). I’ve tried making all three and have had other’s versions, but it’s nothing like Grandma’s!
What, no reheated canned green beans?!? 
In February 1979, I shared an automobile with three people driving from Minneapolis to Winnipeg to watch an eclipse of the Sun.
We were discussing where to stop for dinner when the driver said “I hear there’s a pretty good place in Alexandria.”
I said “Fine, just as long as there isn’t a six-foot-tall red neon sign out front that says EAT.”
Eight hours later, we were driving down the main street in Alexandria, MN. Guess what was glowing on the horizon?
Laughter ensued.
ohh that was Sunday dinner at grandma’s … sometimes we had chicken fried steak with biscuits and gravy tho grandma always made sure we had vegetables or a salad along with it
was yours the normal noodles or the “dumplings”?
the school version of it was dog food tho
it was now I want some tho lol tho I would cut back a tad on the salt these days tho …
read the menu here this place has almost what everyone’s looking for :
Today’s submission: A hot Reuben sandwich with corned beef and pastrami, like the one I just had for breakfast.
I’ve run out of Coke, so I had to eat it with root beer instead. Not bad!
We’ll make the veg optional. Me, I like veg that isn’t canned or overcooked.
I’ve never heard the hot beef sandwich called a stack, but it works. According to this article, it’s been around since 1952 or earlier. I remember hearing my mother talk about it in her childhood, which would put it at late 30s or 40s.
As for a name, I nominate a long gone restaurant on an old US highway in Ohio. It was called the Garden of Eat’N
Here is an advertisement from 1934: “Go to all the Taverns, Inns, The Gables and what you? Then go to the Garden of Eat’N. Dine and Dance amid real food, real linen and real service with a smile! No Chop Suey! No spaghetti! Steak, chicken and chops to order.”
I’ve never had one — there doesn’t seem to be anyplace hereabouts that serves it, and my attempts at any kind of béchamel typically end in disaster — but the Hot Brown sounds absolutely delicious, though an artery-clogger.