Moms Gravy..How to?

[FlyLie]

What is SOS and 'scrapple?" I take it that's some type of military terms for what soldiers used to call Chow Hall Slop but I have no idea what it consists of. I had my first encounter with MREs two years ago. The Air National Guard supplies them to families in South Alabama so the people will have food during hurricanes. It will keep a person from starving to death but it falls short in the tasty category.

Another thing I wanted to ask, everyone mentioned all that good sausage gravy but nobody mentioned CHOCOLATE GRAVY. I learned about it on my first visit to Clay County, TN when a bowlful of it was passed to me at breakfast. The guests were opening up biscuits and covering them with it and eating like a pack of hungry hounds. The bowl was passed to me and I passed it on because I didn't know what it was. My husband didn't tell me, he just said, "you should try it; I think you will like it." He later told me that it was chocolate gravy and was very good if the cook knows what she is doing.

I'm a very good cook and can make a killer chocolate cake but I have no idea how to make chocolate gravy. Sweetie Pie is coming home Sunday afternoon, for a few days, and I wanted to make him some chocolate gravy for breakfast Monday morning. Does anyone have a good recipe they will share with me? Thanks

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Just Google "Chocolate Gravy" and you will find lots of recipes. They are pretty basic, quick and easy to prepare. One the great memories of my KY childhood. Oh, and there is no grease in CG, only a little butter. As for the SOS, I'll leave the details to KYGORSKI, as he has some first hand knowledge of the subject. But I'll say that some folks know it as "creamed beef or chipped beef on toast". Let you figure out the SOS phrase, but it does have a military heritage. Something about a "shingle".

And then there is Scrapple. Hard to describe the breakfast meat other than to say, start with a "pig", and then after all the more desirable cuts of meat have been carved away, grind up what's left, including the squeal, and form into a loaf form, adding a lot of spices. Seems to be in the same family as "souse" (SP?) Slice the loaf and pan fry. Some people even put maple syrup on it.