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Italians call it gravy
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Italians call it gravy
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Goombas call it gravy. Italians call it sauce, because it's sauce.
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Youre fulla shit
My Gram called it Gravy
My mother called it Gravy
My family calls it Gravy
I call it Gravy
http://italian.food.com/recipe/homemade-italian-red-gravy-355021
A tradition homemade red gravy should be made with meat, specifically pork and veal. I use pork and veal neck bones for added flavor. Instead of sugar and water
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Sorry bro, all of my Italian friends call it sauce and make fun of people that call it "gravy."
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What he said.
Mine was made from a homemade bolognese sauce made with pork and veal. So not even close to gravy.
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Thats cause theyre from the suburbs and probably, several generations removed..Real Italians like people who came from Italy call it gravy
http://italian.food.com/recipe/homemade-italian-red-gravy-355021
A tradition homemade red gravy should be made with meat, specifically pork and veal. I use pork and veal neck bones for added flavor. Instead of sugar and water
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How many generations are you removed from Italy?
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My grandparents came over in their teens from Italy. We call it sauce. My father made a sauce every week.
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sorry bro, my boy Guido who is an Italian American dual citizen said only a finocchio american would call it "gravy," said it's old school for working class Italian Americans, but mostly just white boys who watch the sopranos too much.
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Your boy Guido doesnt know his ass from a hole in the ground
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he owns several Buona Beef's so he might be more Italian than you...
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Yeah, could be, mine was Bari.
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Seriously guys going to bicker over calling sauce gravy? More than some Italians refer to it that way and if your Nona called it gravy your mom likely calls it gravy and so on and so forth. I call it sauce because to me gravy is brown and served on mashed potatoes but it is called gravy by many.
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Gravy: goes over meat.
Sauce: goes over pasta.
Sauce: goes over pasta.
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http://italianfood.about.com/od/pastarecipesandsauces/a/aa060200.htm
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, so this is right up my alley. In Italy there are sugo and salsa. Sugo derives from succo (juices), and refers to pan drippings from the cooking of meats, rich meat-based sauces along the lines of sugo alla Bolognese, or thick vegetable sauces (which often, though not always, go over pasta). A salsa is a semi-liquid-to-liquid raw or cooked sauce that's used as a condiment. It can go over pasta, for example pesto alla genovese, but can also be used to season other dishes. For example, salsa verde is wonderful over boiled meats or potatoes, as is mayonnaise (salsa maionese in many cookbooks). If a sauce is especially delicate, it may be called "salsina."
The passage from sugo/salsa to sauce/gravy must have occurred when immigrant families settled into new neighborhoods in the US, and is, I expect, an Italian-American family/neighborhood tradition more than anything else. Some immigrants translated the Italian for what they put on their pasta as gravy, while others translated it as sauce, and the translations have been passed down through the generations, becoming law in the process. People get amazingly passionate over things like this.
Since I associate gravy with meat drippings thickened with butter and flour (something that's not at all common in Italy, though I have encountered it in Piemonte) I call what goes over pasta sauce when I refer to it in English. As is all too often the case with Italian food, there's no right answer here, and I'll be quite interested to hear other people's ideas.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, so this is right up my alley. In Italy there are sugo and salsa. Sugo derives from succo (juices), and refers to pan drippings from the cooking of meats, rich meat-based sauces along the lines of sugo alla Bolognese, or thick vegetable sauces (which often, though not always, go over pasta). A salsa is a semi-liquid-to-liquid raw or cooked sauce that's used as a condiment. It can go over pasta, for example pesto alla genovese, but can also be used to season other dishes. For example, salsa verde is wonderful over boiled meats or potatoes, as is mayonnaise (salsa maionese in many cookbooks). If a sauce is especially delicate, it may be called "salsina."
The passage from sugo/salsa to sauce/gravy must have occurred when immigrant families settled into new neighborhoods in the US, and is, I expect, an Italian-American family/neighborhood tradition more than anything else. Some immigrants translated the Italian for what they put on their pasta as gravy, while others translated it as sauce, and the translations have been passed down through the generations, becoming law in the process. People get amazingly passionate over things like this.
Since I associate gravy with meat drippings thickened with butter and flour (something that's not at all common in Italy, though I have encountered it in Piemonte) I call what goes over pasta sauce when I refer to it in English. As is all too often the case with Italian food, there's no right answer here, and I'll be quite interested to hear other people's ideas.
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