Hi LFS, a reply to my "YUUGE dollop" post popped up in my email, but now I can't find it.

But when I was in basic training in 1967-68 (Fort Gordon Georgia in mid-winter - brrr), if a drill instructor heard any of us complain about the delicious breakfast treat "SOS", the DI would say loudly, "We call that chipped beef in gravy on toast, private. Drop and give me twenty."  My dad told me that's what dogfaces called it back in WW II, so it must have something going for it.  It was pretty salty, as I recall.