Posted on 08/31/2021 12:00:43 AM PDT by weston
I like Italian sauce, but I wouldn’t call it gravy either.
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Yep, sure looks it!
Although the weather is still muggy and rainy today! ha!
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But he stayed on the beach in Delaware rather than work because it appears he’s incapable of actually doing his job.
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Making kids under 6 mask isn’t science, it’s child abuse https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/making-kids-under-6-mask-isnt-science-its-child-abuse/
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You have yet to speak out about the over 15,000 seniors that died in nursing homes from Covid. Or the fact that
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Donald Trump killed Soleimani with a missile Joe Biden Killed 10 innocent civilians with a missile and quickly told us it was a high value ISIS target.
See the difference?
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So Biden’s bright idea to slow the illegal immigration is to fly the single men home to their countries and keep the family units together.
So they’ll go home, find a “family unit” and be back.
I couldn’t think of a more surefire way to kickstart a wave of human trafficking.
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To be honest, I wouldn’t eat any gravy when I was growing up. Even things like beef stew, I would get the least amount of gravy possible.
I will eat sausage gravy *maybe* 2-3 times a year, but that’s it. Definitely don’t like red-eye gravy. But I don’t like coffee or country ham, so makes sense. 😄
I never heard of that either, but then again I ain’t Italian. Irish, German and Lithuanian here! 😆
Soooo....I Googled. And found a lot of articles. Apparently it’s an issue. LOL I found this from a Brooklyn website:
What’s in a name? Would not a sauce by any other name taste as tangy?
That is the question among connoisseurs of Italian cuisine, when it comes to whether you should call your favorite pasta topping “sauce” or “gravy.”
It’s an age-old food fight that’s still simmering today, and not even Italian-American chefs can agree on which to call what — or why. Some say it depends on what color it is. If it is red, it is sauce, according to Anthony Russo, one of the owners of Gargiulo’s in Coney Island.
“I always know it as sauce,” Russo said. “Gravy, I always thought of as brown sauce.”
Others say it depends on what you put in the pot.
“Traditionally, gravy has meat in it,” said Joe Cosenza, who manages the sauce-making operation at Michael’s of Brooklyn in Sheepshead Bay.
But if you take the Italian language as a guide, a sauce with meat in it should be called a “ragu,” not “gravy,” according to one chef.
“Italian-Americans connote ‘gravy’ to mean a sauce with meat in it, but that’s a ragu,” said Pasquino Vitiello, a co-owner of Queen Italian Restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn.
Vitiello said that linguistically, “sauce” is a more accurate term— coming from the Italian word “salsa” — meaning a topping.
So where did the term “gravy” come from and why did so many people jump on the gravy train?
Food writer Concetta DeLuco believes the confusion probably started when newly arrived Italian Americans anxious to assimilate started calling their ragu the same thing other Americans called meat sauces — “gravy.”
The term stuck, and people have been using it ever since, though some will tell you they also call gravy “Sunday sauce” because it is what their grandmothers served at big family gatherings after Sunday Mass.
“I think if somebody said ‘gravy,’ we would say it’s ‘Sunday sauce,’ ” Russo said.
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/saucy-squabble-is-it-sauce-or-gravy-2/
Since it’s Brooklyn, I’m leaning towards your thought that it’s a Sicilian Italian-American thing.
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