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Post by bc2ca on Jul 3, 2018 4:01:12 GMT
With my very British culinary background, gravy is something that starts with roast meat drippings.
I'm pretty sure my introduction to gravy referring to a tomato sauce on your pasta came from The Sopranos.
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Post by myshelly on Jul 3, 2018 4:05:03 GMT
I'm from the southern US. We put sauce on our pasta and gravy on our rice (or potatoes) I’ve never heard of gravy on rice.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jul 3, 2018 4:06:05 GMT
I'm from the southern US. We put sauce on our pasta and gravy on our rice (or potatoes) I’ve never heard of gravy on rice. I'm convinced you live under a rock. ETA - for what it's worth, rice is a big crop in Texas.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 3, 2018 7:11:18 GMT
I was the first to call it gravy on the other thread. I grew up calling it spaghetti sauce, but in our parish we have some very old school Italian families and they call it gravy. Really?!?! It must be American Italians. I can guarantee that no Italian I know would EVER call pasta sauce "gravy". I learned Italian as an adult for many years, and my Italian teacher would fall off her chair in a dead faint and her parents would roll over in their graves if they heard another Italian call it gravy!
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Post by disneypal on Jul 3, 2018 8:10:48 GMT
I'm from the southern US. We put sauce on our pasta and gravy on our rice (or potatoes) I’ve never heard of gravy on rice. It is a common Georgia side dish 😀
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Post by maryannscraps on Jul 3, 2018 11:26:56 GMT
It's commonly called "gravy" around here. I didn't grow up saying that in upstate NY, but around Boston I hear it all the time. Nonnas make gravy every Sunday.
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Post by SockMonkey on Jul 3, 2018 13:21:34 GMT
I was the first to call it gravy on the other thread. I grew up calling it spaghetti sauce, but in our parish we have some very old school Italian families and they call it gravy. Really?!?! It must be American Italians. I can guarantee that no Italian I know would EVER call pasta sauce "gravy". I learned Italian as an adult for many years, and my Italian teacher would fall off her chair in a dead faint and her parents would roll over in their graves if they heard another Italian call it gravy! <iframe width="24.74000000000001" height="6.300000000000011" style="position: absolute; width: 24.74000000000001px; height: 6.300000000000011px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_40923123" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.74000000000001" height="6.300000000000011" style="position: absolute; width: 24.74px; height: 6.3px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1176px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_33444392" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.74000000000001" height="6.300000000000011" style="position: absolute; width: 24.74px; height: 6.3px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 252px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_48445719" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="24.74000000000001" height="6.300000000000011" style="position: absolute; width: 24.74px; height: 6.3px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1176px; top: 252px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_79087285" scrolling="no"></iframe> Well, they'd probably call it something in Italian instead. Check out that article I posted.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jul 3, 2018 13:54:58 GMT
Coming from a burnt meat and potatoes first-generation Irish-American house, I remember the first time I stayed for dinner at a first generation Italian-American friend’s house. When spaghetti “gravy” was mentioned, I imagined I would have to choke down brown gravy.
Horror turned to delight.
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Post by workingclassdog on Jul 3, 2018 13:55:22 GMT
I was the first to call it gravy on the other thread. I grew up calling it spaghetti sauce, but in our parish we have some very old school Italian families and they call it gravy. One of the priests even did a homily on the hotly contested sauce vs gravy debate. One of our organizations at church has a monthly spaghetti supper and most of the older people (usually Italian) call it gravy. I go back and forth between the two. Italian here.. and never heard the term gravy for spaghetti sauce.. even from my full Italian great grandma. Maybe a regional Italy thing?
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Post by workingclassdog on Jul 3, 2018 13:57:14 GMT
My mother was from northern Italy (Trieste), and we called it sauce. The first time I heard it referred to as gravy was after my sil moved to New Jersey. My family is from Trieste too!!! Yep, we call it sauce...
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Jul 3, 2018 14:00:45 GMT
Really?!?! It must be American Italians. I can guarantee that no Italian I know would EVER call pasta sauce "gravy". I learned Italian as an adult for many years, and my Italian teacher would fall off her chair in a dead faint and her parents would roll over in their graves if they heard another Italian call it gravy! Growing up, my Chicago friends called it gravy and then in college my New York/New Jersey friends called it gravy. Maybe it’s more what part of Italy (or Sicily*) you hail from rather than where you end up? But I haven’t read the thread, so maybe this has been discussed. * I know better than to call a Sicilian-American “Italian.” LOL.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2018 14:38:05 GMT
Sugu
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Post by scrappyesq on Jul 3, 2018 15:36:18 GMT
That's so funny. I never had to translate but it was amazing how much I understood on The Sopranos. That's what happens when you grow up in Brooklyn (or at least it did when I was a kid).
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