Spring ahead thursday, #575!

[Karen]

karen,
The guy across the street fought in Korea and he mentioned SOS to us once. We giggled about it and then I started to hear the term more and more connected with school cafeteria food........

Too funny.

Ayup, Dad was in Korea, and that's where he heard that term, too. The quality of the beef certainly makes a difference!

[RICHARD]

Ayup, Dad was in Korea, and that's where he heard that term, too. The quality of the beef certainly makes a difference!

Well, now to find out if it started there.

I had heard a 'square meal' referred the dishes sailors used in the old days. When they has a mess call, a full ration covered the square dish they used - so that term came to represent a 'full' meal.

So I wonder if the plate came to be called a shingle?

[Catty1]

My dad had an old vaudeville joke: "When I was a kid we ate round steak because we couldn't afford a square meal."

The origin of that saying is really interesting, RICHARD. I didn't know that.

[Lady's Human]

Well, now to find out if it started there.

I had heard a 'square meal' referred the dishes sailors used in the old days. When they has a mess call, a full ration covered the square dish they used - so that term came to represent a 'full' meal.

So I wonder if the plate came to be called a shingle?

The shingle is the toast. If you've ever had military mess toast, you'd understand why it came ot be called a shingle, the consistency is about the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped...litary_cuisine

[RICHARD]

The shingle is the toast. If you've ever had military mess toast, you'd understand why it came ot be called a shingle, the consistency is about the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped...litary_cuisine

Does hospital food count?

[Lady's Human]

Does hospital food count?

Only it it travels several miles in a steam heated container between production and serving.