Meals Refusing to Exit. Named for obvious reasons.
Makes them meaner.
(And now I want some SOS for breakfast. I wonder if any of the diners around here serve it.)
Too bad you don’t live in Fort Worth. I know a couple of places that make really, really good biscuits and gravy…which they will make on toast if you don’t like biscuits. Well, B&G is actually creamed sausage on biscuits, but most people think it’s even better than SOS.
Or, you know, you can make your own. It’s really a pretty easy dish to cook. That’s part of the reason why it’s so popular.
Beef Rolaids. The mess guys on the Spadefish apparently made it so crappily the CO forbade the use of that menu card again while he was the CO.
Beef Roulades as made by normal people is a slice of leftover roast beef sliced about a quarter inch thick, rolled around a filling ranging from white asparagus spears seasoned with a little bit of chopped pickle and a remoulade sauce [a sort of mustard cream sauce] to the sort of bread based stuffing you might find in a turkey. After they are rolled up, they are laid into a baking dish, covered with a gravy or sauce and then baked until heated through again. How that got perverted into a slab of sliced roast beef filled with mustard and then battered and deep fried, I have absolutely no idea, but the people who developed that recipe card for the Navy really needed to have their heads examined for possession of taste buds. [ I like the bread stuffing, personally. Nice balance of chopped onion and celery to a good sour dough bread and moistened with a good beef stock and then covered with a light saucing of good beef gravy made from pan drippings is excellent with a side of gingered carrots.
MREs: Three lies in one!
I would note that ham and lima beans were discontinued from C-rats at some point, but “ham and motherfuckers” stuck around as an apt descriptive of the ham and scrambled eggs. In a can. Gross.
I dug my LBE out of the closet for Halloween and found a book of matches, a wetnap, and Chicklets in the ammo pouch. 20 year old Chicklets taste kind of like sugar and cardboard, so essentially they remained unchanged.
‘Horsecock’ was kielbasa or ring bologna on my ship.
‘FNGR’ or ‘Finger’ was shorthand for “F’n Gravy and Rice” a favorite preparation of lazy goddamned MSs serving midrats.