abbreviation General Slang

SOS

· abbreviation · kitchen

Sauce on the side — the modifier every server scribbles when a guest doesn't want their plate drowned.

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Back-of-house shorthand for 'sauce on the side.' Server fires it on the ticket, the line plates the protein naked and drops the sauce in a ramekin next to it. Standard modifier in any restaurant with a written ticket system.

“Table 12 wants the carbonara SOS — drop the sauce in a two-ounce ramekin.”
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Military-derived kitchen slang for 'shit on a shingle' — creamed chipped beef on toast. Older diner and mess-hall usage, still heard in some short-order joints.

“Pop used to order SOS every morning at the diner — chipped beef, white gravy, burnt toast.”
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SOS In A Sentence

Table 12 wants the carbonara SOS — drop the sauce in a two-ounce ramekin.
Pop used to order SOS every morning at the diner — chipped beef, white gravy, burnt toast.

Origin & Usage

Variants s.o.s.sos

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