Pheww, for a second there I thought my whole childhood was a lie. The Chef Boyardee thing still has me reeling.
NJ Italians call it gravy because it makes them feel like they're real Italians. Fact is if Italy wasn't shaped like a boot they wouldn't be able to pick it out on a map.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.
Mom made homemade fries. Basically cut the potatoes up and fried up real good. But always a Crisco jar of grease leftover in the fridge!! I used to dip apples in it and feed it to the deer. They loved it!
An English dictionary defining a foreign recipe. You can't figure that out? It's recipe not a trademark nor defined by bad translation. Like French fries.
It’s odd that 3rd or 4th generation Americans think they are Italian just because they had an ancestor who emigrated from Sicily 120 years ago. A lot of their food is just their Grandma's Americanized version of Italian food. Their real homeland is the Lower East side, Bowery and Two Bridges neighborhoods in Manhattan. Where the Italian immigrants created the version of their food in the tenements of lower Manhattan.
Italians from Italy , like my family , and all the Italians I know that are actually from Italy call it sauce. The ones that call it gravy are born here and maybe their grandparents came here but they use bad Italian slang words that are not used in Italy. Next time you meet someone that got here from Italy ask them . They pronounce all the Italian pastas and meats the way they are supposed to be pronounced not the bad american slang of Italian words.
That's close to the way that I understand it to be.(The closest I come to being Italian was having a half Italian girlfriend.)
Jeeze now where are name calling in a thread about food?? Take a chill pill dude!
I suppose one could say that about every nationality that came here ... you ‘re 3rd or 4th generation , therefore you lost privilege to your ancestral heritage , Yeah I see that.lol
Words change meaning or have double meanings. It’s not right or wrong. It just is.
Man, TDS is strong with this one. In a thread about macaroni lol. That’s one big chip.
No. Its just an example of an immigrant group misunderstanding the native language. It's not a big deal but don't tell us that tomato sauce is gravy.
I went to Italy and with me was a friend who was from north jersey and said she spoke Italian. So we get there and she’s trying to use her jersey crude Italian words like gabagool , motzarel etc not using proper pronunciation . No one knew what she was saying and she soon realized she did not know any Italian after all.
Believe it or not she was very humbled by the experience. I did not bust her balls because she did not know any better . Her great grand father came here from italy and she grew up repeating Jersey slang words thinking it was real Italian.
Tomato sauce isn't gravy. Gravy starts with meat. After all this talk I just had to make some gravy. So I got some great pork and some beef ribs. (It is great being good friends with the butcher's in the store!!) Browned them and poured a few cans of crushed tomatoes into the pot. Added spices and fresh basil from the garden. An hour on simmer and the house smells great. A few hours to go. I feel real bad for you that you never had gravy like this. But I have good news for you. Crappy tasting Ragu in on sale. Enjoy your marinara.
Have you tasted the brand Ragu? That shitss awful. But you are accurate.technically that’s a ragu
