"My brother and I loved creamed-chip-beef-on-toast"
Did you ever have it with sliced, boiled eggs between the toast and the creamed-chip-beef? My dad was in the Navy and he called it SOS (if you don't know, don't ask, lol).
No, but that was available in the cafeteria at my former place of employment. We had a lot of ex-military there, and I suppose it brought back fond memories.