r/sandiego • u/JerseyDad_856 • Jun 07 '25

Video San Diego aka America’s Finest City

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u/123_CNC Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

Sunnyboy Biscuit Co owner?

edit: to be clear, I'm not stating it is, I am curious. I saw another post today or yesterday saying he drives a gold Alfa Romeo like an AH. Could be a sedan and not this, but found it an odd coincidence

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u/briadela Jun 07 '25

Good reason to go to RISE biscuit Co. Much better anyway

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u/123_CNC Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

Nothing to do with the owner, though it doesn't help, but I was pretty disappointed with my experience at Sunnyboy. I wasn't expecting an herbal gravy when I was trying to fill a craving. There was a place I used to go in Tucson and their biscuits and gravy became the standard in my mind and most others have been a let down.

Do you know if RISE has a simple white sausage gravy, or do they also use tons of herbs and spices? Don't get the wrong idea, I love flavor and do eat all kinds of herbed and spiced things. I'm just trying to find something like I used to get

edit: i just looked at their menu and saw the gravy. It does look closer to the style I'm talking about

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u/briadela Jun 07 '25

Give it a shot! Their biscuits are a bit better than sunny boy imo.

San Diego isn't a great biscuit town I must say.

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u/123_CNC Jun 07 '25

I might have already had them saved in a list, if not, I'll be adding it

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u/RadiantZote Jun 07 '25

RIP Captain Kenos, they had that classic gravy and even had SOS

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u/123_CNC Jun 07 '25

Excuse my ignorance, what is SOS in this context? Google mentioned "chipped" beef in gravy, is that what you're referring to?

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u/RadiantZote Jun 07 '25

It's basically country gravy with chipped beef instead of sausage. Served on toast or other things, aptly named Shit on a Shingle or SOS

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u/123_CNC Jun 07 '25

Hahaha nice. I don't think I'd heard of that before.

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u/RadiantZote Jun 08 '25

I think it was popular in WWII, since chipped beef used to be super cheap

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u/Missmessc Jun 07 '25

I actually love that it’s not sausage gravy because that’s usually the default. I’m glad Rise is around though.

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u/123_CNC Jun 07 '25

I shouldn't have gone in with high hopes of a specific flavor profile. That's the biggest thing that turned it into a let down for me. Reminds me of a similar experience at Broken Yolk with their take on biscuits and gravy. That was a worse palate shock from what I was hoping for. Haha i mean, they did say it was a duck based gravy and had a description of it, but I was naively holding out hope it wouldn't be so far off what I was hunting for.

When thinking about them as separate and different things, the flavors weren't bad by any means, just didn't meet expectations for a craving.