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#130032 07/03/04 03:58 PM
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The Italians have done a wonderful thing, inventing a dish in which something savory is plunked on a piece of toast. Sometimes the result is called bruschetta; other times it is called crostini. There is no need for two words of identical meaning. So what's the difference?





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The only thing I know that gets plunked on toast is chipped beef, and that's called SOS.


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Welcome, Amnow of Illinois, to the conversation. This term -- the one you suggest -- was the usage in the United States Navy in the 1960's, also. But no one would confuse SOS with bruschetta or crostini.



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Are you saying that chipped beef isn't savory? It sure nuff ain't sweet, an that's the onliest nother option, fars I know.


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chipped beef in a white sauce on toast. yum!



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What's wrong with having two words for such a lovely, savory thing? Anyway, crostino seems to be the standard Tuscan Italian word for canapé or hors d'œuvre. (It's related to our crust.) The word and the tidbit, bruschetta, hails from Abbruzzo in the South. In standard Italian it's pronounced /bruskEtta/, though in some dialects it is pronounced with a hushing rather than a hissing s, e.g., /bruSEtta/.


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toast is chipped beef, and that's called SOS.
I heard that SOS is crumbled hamburg in white sauce.
There's another acroynim for chiped beef in white sauce but I can't recall it.
Any old ex-service personnel out there who can help? Like a Chief of the Mess?
Chief of the Mess (Chuckling at own joke while others groan)


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Chipped beef? Do you have to use a chisel to get it off the beast's carcass? Does one eat the chip or does it have a chip missing from it?


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Naw, the chipped meat comes from the shoulder, obviously. And to make it worthwhile, you'd need a beast that was evenly balanced, with a chip on both shoulders. I think being fed into the business end of a meat processing plant would be enough excuse, don't you?


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"Are you saying that chipped beef isn't savory? It sure nuff ain't sweet, an that's the onliest nother option, fars I know."
Not savory, not sweet, perhaps glue??


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