[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Arfcom, I need some help (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/9/2009 4:02:13 AM EDT
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I was recently publicly ostracized because I (like most Americans) refer to the red stuff you put on pasta, lasagna, pizza etc... as "sauce." This very opinionated person refers to the stuff as "gravy," insisting that the little italian nuns that came over on the boat back in 1844 carried the gravy recipe in a gilded chest and subsequent generations of nuns would slap your hands with a hickory rod if you called it sauce, therefore everyone with a 1000th bit of Italian DNA calls sauce gravy.
What do you call it? Sauce or gravy. |
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Quoted: Sauce is the stuff made of tomato sauce and or paste or pureed (sp) tomatoes. Gravy is made from the grease drippings of cooked meat, pork or pultry and then flour, corn starch or other wheat like powders. What he said. I have never heard the red stuff called gravy and there were still Italians around here who spoke it fluently when I was a kid. |
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I grew up in NYC and we all called it sauce....didn't run into anyone who called it gravy until I was 15...
I asked what they called brown stuff they put on their turkey?...they said gravy! Sounds just like ordering a "coke" and then telling the waitress which kind 
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Sauce is the stuff made of tomato sauce and or paste or pureed (sp) tomatoes. Gravy is made from the grease drippings of cooked meat, pork or pultry and then flour, corn starch or other wheat like powders. ^That. I've never heard somebody call tomato sauce "gravy." |
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Gravy - The fat and juices that drip from cooking meat, often thickened, seasoned, flavored, etc., and used as a sauce for meat, potatoes, rice, etc.
Gravy is a kind of sauce, however tomato sauce IS NOT a kind of gravy. People who call tomato sauce "gravy" shouldn't be beaten mercilessly about the head and face with a dictionary. |
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Quoted: 2nd gen Italian descendant.. heard nothing but sauce my whole life. IF you have a problem with that, I'll have a couple of the boys come over and give you a little talking to. IF you have a problem with that, I'll have a couple of the boys come over and beat the fuck out of you and send you to your family members in the trunks of 7 cars. NY Wop here |
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Sauce. Hope you told him/her to STFU. You can hope all you want. But the boy likes living life above ground. It's GRAVY. Now you all can STFU.  Says the guy from MA.. Bet you have a lot of Irish friends
Since you dunno girl parts from boy parts, your post is invalid. Get back in the closet and stay there. |
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That is very well-written, and probably true.
I suspect calling Marinara or meat sauce "Gravy" is a relatively recent 20th Century affectation from those trying sound "more Italian". Maybe...all I know is my Napolitano Great Grandmother called it gravy...and since she didn't BUY it in a jar and MADE it, I'm going with her nomenclature. Now get the hell out of my kitchen...don't you boys have "assault rifles" to play with? 
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One of my buddy's wife is Italian, and refers to the sauce as gravy. When I am invited to their house to eat that scrumptious Lasagne of hers, I call the red stuff what ever she wants. Well, probably would have to decline if she wanted to use the modifier 'man'. Said the guy holding a 20lb bag of "man meat" 
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That is very well-written, and probably true.
I suspect calling Marinara or meat sauce "Gravy" is a relatively recent 20th Century affectation from those trying sound "more Italian". Maybe...all I know is my Napolitano Great Grandmother called it gravy...and since she didn't BUY it in a jar and MADE it, I'm going with her nomenclature. Now get the hell out of my kitchen...don't you boys have "assault rifles" to play with?
Yeah we do, since your gonna be in the kitchen anyway.... 
I have honestly never heard of tomato sauce being called gravy until today. Guess I lead a sheltered life
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Quoted: Playmore,Quoted: Quoted: That is very well-written, and probably true.I suspect calling Marinara or meat sauce "Gravy" is a relatively recent 20th Century affectation from those trying sound "more Italian". Maybe...all I know is my Napolitano Great Grandmother called it gravy...and since she didn't BUY it in a jar and MADE it, I'm going with her nomenclature. Now get the hell out of my kitchen...don't you boys have "assault rifles" to play with? I've been meaning to ask you. Is your avatar a pic of you, or from some movie?
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Quoted: she doesn't call it gravy http://blogofhilarity.com/wp-content/uploads/giada-de-laurenitiss-a__wyman_wireimage.jpg That photo doesn't make her look very "el dente". |
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It's usually the same pretentious motherfuckers who whine and cry incessantly about how a quick lunch at Mr. Wok in the mall isn't "authentic". They typically like Frida Kahlo paintings as well. Never been to a Mr. Wok, have no clue who Kahlo is, but I DO know the difference between a mag and a clip. Isn't THAT what you MEN should be more concerned with, than what I choose to call things I cook in my kitchen? |
