PrintThe SOS at Shopsin's
[Photo: Robyn Lee]
The greatest thing about Shopsin's—well, one of the six or seven greatest things about Shopsin's—is that no matter how many times you return, there's always something you haven't yet attempted on their constantly revised tome of a menu. Like when Robyn Lee tried the S.O.S. "sandwich":
The menu describes it as "eggs, grits, creamed corned beef, hot sandwich," leading us to believe it would be one of those dishes consisting of two pieces of bread filled with a layer of something non-bready that someone with opposable thumbs could pick up. But we were a bit off.
It's a mound of grits on top of a slice of bread--wonderfully resilient, slightly spongy potato bread--topped with another slice of bread, with plenty of scrambled egg and corned beef chunklets throughout, all in a pool of some sort of savory cream sauce. Holy fugnut.
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5 Comments:
SOS = s**t on a shingle
Always served open faced!
chadmd23 at 11:07AM on 09/29/09
I had the version with sausage instead of corned beef and it completely messed me up. Twice. It looks like a pile of mush but it's delicious.
morley at 12:45PM on 09/29/09
mmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm.
klg19 at 12:50PM on 09/29/09
The family friendly name is "Chipped Beef on Toast." This was my Dad's dinner night as a child. He said it reminded him of his time in the army, where it was always called S--- on a Shingle. Never heard of it with grits before.
thesteveroller at 2:56PM on 09/30/09
i think I might have to tweak my own nipples.
zoomzoom6 at 1:48PM on 11/18/09