Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
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?