drdetroit Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I'm not a big fat Italian guy running an amateur hour sports book out of a garage in Belleville so I call it sauce. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no psls Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 On 10/19/2015 at 2:45 PM, JohnnyHector said: Disclaimer: Turn down the speakers if you're at work. This guy is funny as hell - "WHO GIVES A sh*t !!! " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuscanyTile2 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 On 7/31/2010 at 9:58 AM, SouthernJet said: Old School? Most older generation Italians I know call it 'Gravy' With meat. How did you know to ask this 12 years before we acquired him? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuscanyTile2 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 On 8/2/2010 at 8:42 PM, greeneyedlady said: We always called it gravy. The "Americans" or med ee GAHNS called it sauce. Either way, it was all good. Happy birthday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet9 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 My family is mostly Irish so gravy is for turkey, potatoes, pot roast, etc. Worked for a Sicilian guy actually from Sicily once and asked him about this NY/NJ dialect on Italian foods which pretty much is dropping syllables because why the hell not. He found it to be ridiculous. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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munchmemory Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 MAMA MIA !!!! GRAVY !!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maury77 Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I don't think I've ever met a person that was actually born in Italy who calls it gravy. An Italian guy I know from overseas was telling me that marinara actually started as a seafood sauce which makes sense because "mare" means sea in Italian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maury77 Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 15 hours ago, munchmemory said: Italian is my favorite cuisine and my Cuban family vows to disown me whenever I say this (maybe they shouldn't have raised me in New Jersey). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggs Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Sauce is the stuff that dribbles out of your mouth. Gravy is the stuff that dribbles out of your ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 55 minutes ago, maury77 said: Italian is my favorite cuisine and my Cuban family vows to disown me whenever I say this (maybe they shouldn't have raised me in New Jersey). What a great combination of food cultures. I'd be happy eating Latin style food every day. Great knowledge on how to cook pork and chicken especially. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJet Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 50% italian. Mom's side of the family is from Marieno, Sicily. Grew up in Brooklyn and went to H.S. in Bensonhurst in the 80s where many of my friends were Italian. Never heard anyone call it gravy until the Sopranos came out. It was always sauce...if it was cooked with meat it was either meat sauce or Ragu. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwichjetfan Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Where's Borgoguy when you need him? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 3 hours ago, IndianaJet said: 50% italian. Mom's side of the family is from Marieno, Sicily. Grew up in Brooklyn and went to H.S. in Bensonhurst in the 80s where many of my friends were Italian. Never heard anyone call it gravy until the Sopranos came out. It was always sauce...if it was cooked with meat it was either meat sauce or Ragu. The meat sauce might be called "sugo" by the off the boat folks from my area of Italy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Just now, munchmemory said: The meat sauce might be called "sugo" by the off the boat folks from my area of Italy. That's most likely why some Italian Americans adopted "gravy" for a meat sauce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 I’m so confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerfish Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 On 9/2/2022 at 9:46 AM, greenwichjetfan said: Where's Borgoguy when you need him? I remember a long long thread about this with him heavily involved on the old forums. Being a non Italian Canadian the first time I heard gravy used re tomato sauce I was beyond puzzled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 Mayo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southparkcpa Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 So my best friend was born in Calabria, Italy and moved to NY when he was 3. This photo is his mom, grandmother, aunts and his sister. Every year they have a truck of tomatoes brought in from upstate and they make sauce all weekend. They ALL call it sauce. Good enough for them… good enough for me. It’s sauce. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Our go to jar sauce. Make it at their restaurant in Brooklyn, but sold in super markets. We don't even bother making sauce from scatch any more. Michaels is a great place too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJet Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 57 minutes ago, Bugg said: Our go to jar sauce. Make it at their restaurant in Brooklyn, but sold in super markets. We don't even bother making sauce from scatch any more. Michaels is a great place too. So you call the jar of sauce, labeled as gravy, sauce? Now I'm really confused. (On a side note the quality of jarred sauces you can buy at supermarkets has increased 100 fold in the last 10 years) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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