OT: Sauce or Gravy
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Full disclosure: non-Italian here, but have been told by Italian friends that the Sunday “sauce” with meats is gravy and marinara on its own is sauce.
Don’t understand the question. I put gravy on turkey and mashed potatoes and sauce on spaghetti, so they are both right.
Gravy is a type of sauce made primarily from liquids generated from cooking meat. Sauces made primarily from tomatoes are not gravy.
Sauce goes on the pasta
Gravy goes on the turkey.
learned that when I was 3!
Gravy goes on the turkey.
learned that when I was 3!
Who's definition?? Chef Boyardee??
Sorry you had such bad parenting.
JK
The sausage gravy you put on biscuits down south is made primarily from cream and milk, yet it's still called gravy by everyone. I do see the logic behind a meat sauce being called gravy.
I love this thread as their is no true cut answer. Unlike the Taylor Ham or Pork Roll debate as it's called Taylor Pork Roll. Says so right on the package.
Most I've enjoyed had sausage so...
Best ever at the kitchen on the backside at Churchill Downs.
Not my grandmothers gravy! That is bacon fat based and a true gravy.
Love it!
Does anyone old enough remember the coffee can in your refrigerator full of bacon fat drippings that your mom would always save.
It's gravy..Sunday gravy
Pizza has sauce on it.
Both words are English. Italians can call it whatever they want ...in Italian.
Call it gravy for all I care; just don't insist it's right. It is not.
Growing up had some sort of pasta with gravy every Sunday,. Never heard it called sauce until I went to RU and argued with the North Jersey Italians. Now I call it sauce because that's what my wife calls it when she cooks. However when I go to my mom's or sisters I call it gravy. So for me:
It's not wrong either. If an Italian or anyone calls it gravy, its gravy. You can call you're sauce, but don't insist your right.
Never heard of putting chili on spaghetti until a few years ago. I use it a few times a year as a change of pace.
Interesting opposite scenario...all the northern NJ Italian Americans I met at RU called it Sunday gravy and they argued with the handful of central and southern NJ guys who called it sauce.
I've come to think it may depend more on the region in Italy their ancestors are from rather than where in NJ they reside or grew up.
Can't believe it but I agree with fsg2. These words were defined before Italians came to the US.
It's gravy..Sunday gravy
Pizza has sauce on it.
Incorrect but widely believed by NJ Italians who can't speak Italian and have never been to Italy.
They also say Gabagool. LOL
Eat at these guy's mom's house and you get gravy and gabagool.
Which it is why it has zero reliability. They bring an Italian recipe to this country. They call it what it is.
Oh their is a Santa Claus. The man size Easter bunny is a fraud however.