# When is the last time you ate creamed beef on toast (Shit on a Shingle)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818 "2016-10-27T01:14:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/21 "2016-10-27T03:03:05Z")
I’ve never eaten creamed beef on toast…but creamed tuna on biscuits is a favorite comfort food of mine. I probably make it up once every three months or so, more often in the fall and winter. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/22 "2016-10-27T03:05:07Z")
Within the last few months. There’s a local breakfast joint that makes it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/23 "2016-10-27T03:43:19Z")
Never had creamed chipped beef (where on earth do you buy chipped beef?). But I fix creamed tuna about once a week (usually Sunday night). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/24 "2016-10-27T03:56:54Z")
I make it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/25 "2016-10-27T04:09:52Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > Never had creamed chipped beef (where on earth do you buy chipped beef?). But I fix creamed tuna about once a week (usually Sunday night). I don’t even know. I first had creamed beef on toast with my grandpa when I was a kid, but my family’s always made it with ground beef. I’m not sure I’d be as enamored with SOS if it was made with chipped beef. How exactly is it “chipped?” ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/26 "2016-10-27T04:21:25Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Not since the 70s, but that’s exactly what the old man would call it. Said they ate it often in Vietnam. My experience exactly! Daughter of a Vietnam vet here. My father didn’t cook very often, but I remember him making SOS a few times when I was a kid, and “shit on a shingle” was only whispered between he and my mother, who didn’t think I heard them. He would talk about how they ate it in the mess hall. Best I can recall, SOS eventually gave way to his other gourmet delight, fried Spam & mustard sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/27 "2016-10-27T04:27:06Z")
I had it once, perhaps 30-40 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/28 "2016-10-27T05:07:47Z")
In the 60’s when I was pre-puberty, and it was awesome. I should take a shot at it. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/29 "2016-10-27T05:54:42Z")
So long ago I can’t remember ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/30 "2016-10-27T12:21:40Z")
I haven’t had it since I was a kid. My mother used to make it out of Buddig meat. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/31 "2016-10-27T12:35:56Z")
Never. I’d never heard of it until I read about it here previously. I don’t think it’s a “thing” in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/32 "2016-10-27T12:36:52Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > Never had creamed chipped beef (where on earth do you buy chipped beef?). But I fix creamed tuna about once a week (usually Sunday night). I’ve gotten Buddig chipped beef at the local Jewel. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/33 "2016-10-27T13:24:13Z")
I think my college cafeteria might have made it once or twice, which would put it at over a decade ago. Other than that, though, never. Although, one of our common meals when I was a kid was creamed eggs on toast. Same thing, but with hard-boiled eggs instead of beef. In retrospect, we probably ate it because it’s dirt cheap and we couldn’t afford much of anything, but I didn’t know that at the time. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/34 "2016-10-27T14:02:43Z")
My wife and I are fond of finding “family” restaurants for breakfast. Summer of 2014, while driving to Cleveland, we stopped at a small place about an hour before we got there, and I had creamed chip beef on toast. Quite good. (I looked it up: It must have been North Perry or nearby, as we could see the towers of the Perry Nuclear plant from the parking lot.) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/35 "2016-10-27T14:14:14Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Never. I’d never heard of it until I read about it here previously. I don’t think it’s a “thing” in Canada. Make that two Canadians who’ve never heard of it. Thank-you, OP, for introducing me to the wild, nebulous concept of creamed beef. _guess I haven’t lived_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/36 "2016-10-27T14:42:57Z")
I make it now and then, using [Armour Dried Beef](http://www.armour-star.com/prod_dried.asp). But I make sausage gravy and tuna in white gravy more often. Shredded jerky works, and I made some with shredded country ham - the intensely salty kind that nearly impossible to eat by itself. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/37 "2016-10-27T14:50:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Never. I’d never heard of it until I read about it here previously. I don’t think it’s a “thing” in Canada. > [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Make that two Canadians who’ve never heard of it. It’s basically exactly the same as poutine, only without the cheese curds, and with white gravy with chipped beef instead of brown gravy, and toast (or biscuits, in our house) instead of fries. 😃😛😉 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/38 "2016-10-27T14:54:40Z")
Never. Not opposed to trying it, but I’ve just never thought to order it over something else when at an establishment that serves it. Someday maybe it’ll strike my fancy. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/39 "2016-10-27T15:12:56Z")
Stauffer’s makes an good version of it. Eat it a couple times a year. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818/40 "2016-10-27T15:30:37Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > The last time was when I was a Boy Scout, about 45 years ago. And yes, we called it shit on a shingle out of earshot of the leaders. I teach the recipe to the Scouts in my Troop, and have developed a backpacking version using dried milk. About a third of the boys enjoy it - biggest issue is the heavy salt content - harder to dilute when water is rationed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-last-time-you-ate-creamed-beef-on-toast-shit-on-a-shingle/769818.md?page=3)