Yet More Shit

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Thu Aug 3 11:38:37 CDT 2000


On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Judith A. Panetta wrote:

> On a culinary note...
> 
> There's that infamous military mess delicacy- Shit on a
> Shingle - affectionately known as SOS.

There are two versions of SOS. From my Navy days I remember it as being
decidedly brown. In civilian life I have always experienced it as chipped
beef on toast, the sauce being of quite a whitish hue.

> > And..."dipped in shit" or
dip-shit.

Sometimes shortened to "I'll be dipped." (the key word being
in ellipsis)

			P.






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