BS: Baked beans

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 May 08 - 01:41 PM

Baked-beans-on-white is WAY tastier than shit-on-a-shingle...

By the way, that baked-bean sandwich is even better if you butter the bread first.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:36 PM

All right, I will be the one to gird my loins and enter the fray in honor of that great gourmet delicacy so indelicately called S.O.S in some quarters.

Now a distinction. There are actually not one but two separate preparations, each of which, deservedly or undeservedly, receives the appellation "S.O.S."

One of them is the stuff I endured while in the Army, which was just what I'd describe as crumbled hamburger in a tasteless white sauce on soggy bread, toasted or untoasted. This indeed deserves the opprobrium often heaped upon it, and I have no quarrel with those who execrate that stuff.

But my fancy, my fond recollection goes back to my youth, when, in response to popular demand from my brother and me, my mother would make "creamed dried beef on toast". Ahhh! Salty as hellfire (I don't know how salty hellfire is, but it's a phrase that rings in the mind), filling, and always to be desired. I always particularly enjoyed it when accompanied by canned cranberry jelly, for the salty-against-piquant contrast, just before I'd wipe the palate clean, so to speak, clearing the flavors away with a drink of cold milk before the next delectable mouthful.

Alas, and more's the pity, my Beautiful Wife puts her delicate foot down, not only against the salt but against the fat in the sauce. It's terrible to be pussywhipped!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: MMario
Date: 08 May 08 - 02:49 PM

the former dish you describe is "hamburger gravy" - the latter is SOS. *grin* at least that's what I learned while growing up.
And a *good* dish of SOS is a dish to be enshrined in culinary heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 May 08 - 04:10 PM

At a WW2 camp I was at, s. o. s. was cheese and bacon on toast. Actually rather tasty.

I remember creamed chipped (dried) beef on toast from childhood. Haven't seen it for many years. I remember it favorably.

Also from childhood, canned baked beans re-cooked in a shallow casserole with cut-up Vienna sausage, Kraft prepared cheese and ketchup. Now that was trashy cooking too low for the white trash! But I liked it at the time. Also 'spanish rice' prepared much the same way. This was in the 1930s depression years.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 May 08 - 12:02 AM

Q - some people still eat such stuff these days - in moderation, it helps spin out the budget for pensioners.

Much better tasting than the standard Aussie Pensioner diet of canned Cat Food!

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 May 08 - 12:26 AM

Lots of food value in dried beans and peas and lentils, and about the cheapest foods one can buy here. We have a chain in Canada called The Real Canadian Superstore; they have a very large ethnic section with many varieties that I know little about. A pensioner who knows how to cook and flavor them, and use with small amounts of meats and vegetables, can really keep food costs low.

Mention of canned cat and dog food reminds me of friends who were able to get that in Germany in the occupation years just after the war, but not much else with meat products.

Canned cat and dog food is expensive here. Pets have gourmet brands. Hamburger is cheaper.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: CarolC
Date: 09 May 08 - 03:39 PM

Dried beans and other legumes and a pressure cooker can save anyone a lot of money on food.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: GUEST,Edt T
Date: 09 May 08 - 03:50 PM

"Canned cat and dog food is expensive here. Pets have gourmet brands. Hamburger is cheaper".

Folks carefully check the labels for the ingredients for pet food.
Then take their kids to McDopnalds, on the way home.

I have been told that the small cans of pet food make good pate on those small crackers, for when the in-laws visit. (Then there is the chinese dollar store tooth paste, that's really hard to find, since the recall).

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 09 May 08 - 03:53 PM

I like the spelling Mcdopnalds.
I am also experimenting with McDogkennels.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked beans
From: autolycus
Date: 10 May 08 - 06:24 AM

Well, I'll have you know I-I-I-I-I thought I was funny back there. harumfph.


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