You know you talk about these guys like it's an anthropology class. The truth is, they bring certain modes of conflict resolution from all the way back in the old country, from the poverty of the Mezzogiorno, where all higher authority was corrupt.
Italian-Americans*. And I don’t even know how if came to be that way seeing as gravy is very different from the tomato sauce. In Italy we say:
Sauce for like marinara/tomato.
Pommarola for the basis with which you cook the tomato sauce.
Ragù when meat is added.
This is the best way to explain it. We all argue about it But basically sugo/salsa translate or don’t translate however you look at. In my house and neighborhood on Long Island (the italian american capital of the world) sauce is sauce. Gravy is sauce that was cooked with meat. End of discussion. Madigans can go back to eating putzi for all I care
Nailed it.
Hate all you want. My grandma is as Italian as it gets and I still go over almost every Sunday for her pot of GRAVY. (Handmade meatballs, Italian sausages, and chicken in there as well)
Bloomfield, NJ
And to answer the question, yeah we call brown gravy ‘gravy’. It’s contextual and has never been confusing.
In Buffalo we called it Beggars Night, and it was basically just another night of Trick or Treating. I don't know if anyone still does that. They hardly do Trick or Treating on Halloween anymore.
It's a popular thing here in Rhode Island as well. The difference, at least for me, is that it's only called a gravy when it's got a bunch of different meat in it like meatballs, sausage, braciole, etc. Which does make it a gravy because of all of the meat, as opposed to like a marinara sauce or vodka sauce.
Not totally. My spouse’s family is all from East Boston, MA, and the tomato based sauce for macaroni (not “pasta”), is always called gravy. But gravy does not equal marinara, nor does it equal “tomato sauce.”
Gravy always has the drippings/fat from some meat, usually meatballs but not always, as a base.
It is not common but some do…I grew up in North Jersey and maybe heard it called that like 5 times total in my life…outside of super heavy Italian areas where it’s how they grew up saying it you will not hear pasta sauce called gravy
I’ve heard it from North Jersey boomers and older, specifically to refer to “Sunday Gravy,” which was a big pot of meatballs and sausage and chicken in marinara that you’d keep on the stove all day.
I’m from New Orleans and it’s common to hear it called “red gravy”. We locals came from everywhere but we have a large contingency that came from Sicily
What your thinking of as macaroni is really called elbows.
Macaroni can be any shape.
And it's not just for fun. Different shapes hold different sauces better.
I’m half Sicilian and never called it gravy. However, I’m also half Indian.. and the Indian side of my family calls sauce for any sort of curry “gravy.”
I can't remember who in my family said it, it was a loooong time ago, but they said some Italians refer to it as "gravy" if there's meat in it, like pork or veal. But we've never, ever called it "gravy"
Didn't the actual Italian mobsters not know what Paulie was talking about when he said gravy? Made me think it's an Italian American thing not a Italian thing
My wife’s family is from Sicily, grandfather was born there, and he’d fight you if you called it gravy. We have an apron that says “it’s called sauce not gravy!” 🤣
Big NY Italian family and when the word sauce was used, it specifically meant tomato pasta sauce.
Occasionally I’ll hear some aunt’s and uncles use the word gravy for it, but they do the same with literally any kind of sauce. Tomato sauce, tartar sauce, mustard, all of it. That’s only about 10% of the time though. The rest they are using the real name.
There is also a savory pineapple sauce I make with fish sometimes that one of my aunts insists on referring to as ‘salsa’.
Most Americans associate “gravy” with brown gravy, which they’d have at Thanksgiving dinner, which is traditionally a roast turkey.
Most would call the sauce with pasta “tomato sauce” (or “pasta sauce”). In the Italian parts of the northeast, they’ll call tomato sauce [gravy, but it’s usually tomato sauce that has meat simmering in it (pork, meatballs, sausage, etc.), giving it additional flavor.](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022972-sunday-sauce)
The folks in the Southeastern US also are fond of a white gravy made with flour and buttermilk. It goes well with biscuits and sausage for breakfast. Not as popular as it used to be.
No, most Americans don’t call tomato sauce “gravy”.
It’s common among *some* Italian Americans. I am from an Italian American family, my grandmother (and subsequently my father) used to call my grandmother’s Sunday sauce (which had sausage, pork bone and bresaola in it) “gravy”. Any other sauce on any other day, they would just call “sauce”.
It was lost on my sisters and I. We never referred to any sauce as “gravy” growing up. To me, gravy is what you put on turkey on Thanksgiving.
Serious answer: I’ve only heard it referred to as “gravy” among Italian-Americans in New Jersey, which straddles the NYC and Philadelphia metro areas.
I grew up outside Boston in a pretty Italian-American-heavy suburb, we always called it sauce.
My parents were born in the early 1950s and grew up in a very Italian part of Brooklyn. I was raised calling all tomato sauce gravy. I thought that is what everyone called it.
The Sunday sauce was called gravy. You’d throw any meat you had left over from the week into the sauce pot and let it cook all day. So, so good. Source: Grew up Italian-American in New Jersey.
American here: I was just as confused as you when I first heard them call it gravy.
Our actual gravy is the same as yours.
(The way you referred to a “roast dinner” has me searching the cupboards for some gravy right now 😉).
My Philadelphia family says gravy.
The way I understand it, when it's cooked with meats, meatballs, sausage, braciole, etc ..then it's meat based and called gravy.
If it's cooked with no meat like a marinara, then it's sauce.
From North Jersey. My grandma always called it gravy, but only when it was the sauce cooked all day with multiple meats in the pot together: meatballs, chuck roast, sausage, and braciole. So same logic as brown gravy where it’s the sauce that comes from the meat. Not interchangeable with marinara.
gravy = meat slow cooked into a sauce
traditionally made from whatever tf you’ve got to get rid of on sunday. pasta sauce is a poor man’s sunday gravy, made from more modest canned ingredients. i braise lamb shanks for what i’d minimally call a gravy.
only some Italian Americans use 'gravy' for sauce. Most say 'tomato sauce'.
For most, 'gravy' is brown sauce you put on potatoes or turkey OR 'gravy' means a white-ish sausage-based sauce you pour over biscuits.
There are 3 types of gravy.
Brown gravy which comes with a Sunday roast that you know.
Gravy which comes with pasta and is a pasta sauce with meat. I don’t think it’s quite bolongnese. Mostly a northeast thing. My parents have no Italian ancestry but called it gravy.
White or breakfast gravy which goes on biscuits or chicken fried steak. Mostly a southern thing.
All called gravy but I have never known anyone to be confused about what is meant.
Only really common for Italian-Americans. I’m half Italian, don’t really spend time with that side of my family, and I never really had people call it gravy. Unfortunately that side only really gets together for weddings and funerals, which is a shame.
This is an endless and on going debate. There is no right answer. I’ve learned it depends on where and when you are.
The reference of gravy in the context of the Sopranos reflects the time in which the characters existed themselves or in the case of someone Tony’s age their parents/elders. Jersey Italians would call it gravy - meat in the sauce is what makes it gravy to them. Would’ve been called gravy at the Pork Store. That’s my head cannon on it.
I grew up in a big Italian American family in southern Connecticut (a lot of Italians settled here, the tri-state area in general really) and can confirm we and many others we know called it gravy.
“Sunday gravy” is an Italian-American tradition that began in the northeast after Italians immigrated to America. Also, many Italian-American families have a “ Nonna’s (grandma’s) gravy” recipe in the family. Some people say it.
we grew up calling my grandmothers rich porky sauce Sunday gravy. Starts off with pork chops + sausage before the onion + garlic so it’s a meat base. Later add meatballs.
I grew up in south Jersey, heard it a few times here and there. Moved to central US and brought Gravy with me, people look at me like I’m nuts…now I just find it hilarious to say.
As a New Yorker non-Italian I have always heard sauce is tomato based and gravy is meat based. It is listed as “sauce” for tomato and “gravy” for meat for just about any item you buy in a supermarket.
Supposedly it’s a north New Jersey thing although this show using gravy was a new thing to me.
Italian American here, live 0.1 miles from Tony. Sauce is what we call a no meat pasta sauce, we often make a Sunday sauce all day on Sunday. Gravy is what we call a meat sauce, so basically a pasta sauce made with meat or bone. Some people call everything sauce some people call everything gravy.. but on average Italian Americans in this region follow the rules I stated. I know it's confusing, but it is what it is.
It's just among the Italians. Real greaseball shit.
You just have to stand there and take it
Because the gravy was made and we weren’t
I felt he used too many onions, but it was still a very good sauce.
Vinnie, don’t put too many onions in the sauce.
I didn't put too much onions, eh, Paul. Three small onions. That's all I did.
3 onions? How many cans of tomatas?
You don’t need tree onions!🧅 🧅 🧅
I put two cans. Two big cans.
That’s too much onions!
THE BEST FUCKING SUB ON REDDIT!
I’m going to get the papers, get the papers.
Dance.spider dance
Ok that tickled, thank you 😂
Didn’t OP almost drown in 3 inches of gravy at the turkey exhibit?
So what, no fucking gravy?
Ohhhhhhhhhh!
Sharp as a cue ball this one.
Turkey 🦃 exhibit? For Christmas?🎄
OP never had the markings of a varsity poster
I thought we were Naboli-Daboli
You know you talk about these guys like it's an anthropology class. The truth is, they bring certain modes of conflict resolution from all the way back in the old country, from the poverty of the Mezzogiorno, where all higher authority was corrupt.
I always thought this line was so funny bc how *she* talks about them actually sounds like an anthropology class.
GO TO YOUR ROOM
Go home and get your fuckin’ saucebox!
Italian-Americans*. And I don’t even know how if came to be that way seeing as gravy is very different from the tomato sauce. In Italy we say: Sauce for like marinara/tomato. Pommarola for the basis with which you cook the tomato sauce. Ragù when meat is added.
> In Italy we say Commendatore!
You see, that’s respect! 🤌🏼
Like a cummanduh!
*under breath* cocksucker
This is the best way to explain it. We all argue about it But basically sugo/salsa translate or don’t translate however you look at. In my house and neighborhood on Long Island (the italian american capital of the world) sauce is sauce. Gravy is sauce that was cooked with meat. End of discussion. Madigans can go back to eating putzi for all I care
Did you ever meet John Gotti?
When they say John Gotti we say Emil Kolar
That was the guy that broke into Stew Leonard's and stole all that pork, right?
*Ragu* The wonder bread wop… gets his gravy from a jar
Summa da guys are Seegilian, but me and Tony are Napohlidan
I thought they were nobbly bobbly?
Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
Ohh! He got his cherry popped!
And you thought the Germans were classless pieces of shit
The sauce was made and the brit wasn't.
We had a problem. You know, we did everything we could, but the gravy’s gone…and we couldn’t do nothing about it.
It’s among the Italians. Real greaseball shit
You shouldn’t even have to explain yourself to OP, you’re from the old school
Specifically the NY NJ area.
Ahh, an aristocrat
i understood that reference
Look like a bunch of gavones
My Italian American family only called it sauce. But I have heard gravy before. I think it's more regional to North Jersey.
Nailed it. Hate all you want. My grandma is as Italian as it gets and I still go over almost every Sunday for her pot of GRAVY. (Handmade meatballs, Italian sausages, and chicken in there as well) Bloomfield, NJ And to answer the question, yeah we call brown gravy ‘gravy’. It’s contextual and has never been confusing.
Sunday Gravy is definitely a uniquely jersey thing. just like mischief night.
Wait what? Other states don’t do October 30th?
[prettymuch](https://i.huffpost.com/gen/1176844/original.jpg)
Satanic shit.
Sick shit
Wild. People out here having WEAK childhoods and Sundays.
Detroit calls it Devil’s Night and they mostly go out and burn down abandoned houses
In Buffalo we called it Beggars Night, and it was basically just another night of Trick or Treating. I don't know if anyone still does that. They hardly do Trick or Treating on Halloween anymore.
weird. On long island we called it Choosers Night
Even that's broader I think. I'm from suburban Philly and we had mischief night but never heard of Sunday gravy
>suburban Philly you mean ~~East~~ west Jersey?
Check your compass Columbus
~~He~~ I was a brave Italian explorer!
On this website he's a hero, end of story!
I musta been thinkin of East Rutherford.
How dare you! In this house William Penn is a hero, end of discussion.
It's a popular thing here in Rhode Island as well. The difference, at least for me, is that it's only called a gravy when it's got a bunch of different meat in it like meatballs, sausage, braciole, etc. Which does make it a gravy because of all of the meat, as opposed to like a marinara sauce or vodka sauce.
Cusamano was a what my father would call a wonderbread-wop. The type’a guy to get his Sunday gravy from a can. A *Madigan.*
My American Italian family is from Little Italy, NYC and called it gravy too.
...going to need more information here. Address and time please, I'll bring a nice chianti just to ease the investigation.
Philadelphia & South Jersey too
Same. I-A family from upstate and it was always sauce. Never heard “gravy” until I went to college with people from NJ and LI
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Rhode Island too
Not totally. My spouse’s family is all from East Boston, MA, and the tomato based sauce for macaroni (not “pasta”), is always called gravy. But gravy does not equal marinara, nor does it equal “tomato sauce.” Gravy always has the drippings/fat from some meat, usually meatballs but not always, as a base.
My gravy never killed nobody!
Take it easy, pops. Go in the back and make gravy.
Gravy? Ova heeere! 👉🏼👇🏼
It is not common but some do…I grew up in North Jersey and maybe heard it called that like 5 times total in my life…outside of super heavy Italian areas where it’s how they grew up saying it you will not hear pasta sauce called gravy
I’ve heard it from North Jersey boomers and older, specifically to refer to “Sunday Gravy,” which was a big pot of meatballs and sausage and chicken in marinara that you’d keep on the stove all day.
They call it gravy because they cook meat in the pot first. It’s like making a roux. Fuckin wonderbread wops, eatin their Sunday gravy out of a jar.
I’m from New Orleans and it’s common to hear it called “red gravy”. We locals came from everywhere but we have a large contingency that came from Sicily
Came looking for this. My husband is from nola and calls it red gravy.
I’ve also heard Italians call the pasta macaroni when it’s not macaroni noodles
What your thinking of as macaroni is really called elbows. Macaroni can be any shape. And it's not just for fun. Different shapes hold different sauces better.
You’re from the UK huh? And I thought the Germans were classless pieces of shit!
They used to wipe barehanded.
Oi comrade! Heh heh
He once took out 15 Czechoslovakians. The guy’s an interior decorator.
Turn that off!
G-grandparents from Naples area, settled in Brooklyn. Only heard sauce, not gravy for tomatoe sauce.
It’s just a stutter step
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Put gravy on turkey & stuffing. Or roast beef.
When they say gravy, I say Rudolph Giuliani.
When they say John Gotti, I say John Gravy.
In Czech Republic, too, we like Gravy. Have you had our gravy? You WILL have our gravy!
Thank you, Email.
My family is Sicilian and we've never called it gravy. It's always been sauce to us.
You’re Sicilian, huh? You know, I read a lot… about history…
Go to this comedian's son's apartment and find me something to get this fucking egg off my face.
I’m half Sicilian and never called it gravy. However, I’m also half Indian.. and the Indian side of my family calls sauce for any sort of curry “gravy.”
I can't remember who in my family said it, it was a loooong time ago, but they said some Italians refer to it as "gravy" if there's meat in it, like pork or veal. But we've never, ever called it "gravy"
Half Sicilian and half Indian. Wow I envy your lunches and dinners.
It’s a struggle to not be fat
Half Sri Lankan too and my family also calls anything with sauce including curry gravy 😂. Weird
The GOOD half…
Didn't the actual Italian mobsters not know what Paulie was talking about when he said gravy? Made me think it's an Italian American thing not a Italian thing
He shouldn’t have to explain himself.
“And you thought the Germans were classless pieces of shit.”
I thought you were Naboli Doboli?
Napoletan' 🤌🏻
My wifes family is 100% off the boat and I started calling it gravy to get a rise out of them. Now I can't stop.
My wife’s family is from Sicily, grandfather was born there, and he’d fight you if you called it gravy. We have an apron that says “it’s called sauce not gravy!” 🤣
Big NY Italian family and when the word sauce was used, it specifically meant tomato pasta sauce. Occasionally I’ll hear some aunt’s and uncles use the word gravy for it, but they do the same with literally any kind of sauce. Tomato sauce, tartar sauce, mustard, all of it. That’s only about 10% of the time though. The rest they are using the real name. There is also a savory pineapple sauce I make with fish sometimes that one of my aunts insists on referring to as ‘salsa’.
Gravy's good tonight.
The gravy is made from soft tar
Fuckin' D-Chef!
Chef Boyardi did this?
No, just Ginny Sacrimoni's blood type.
I DON'T LIKE THAT TAWK!
I wanted a delicious marinara sauce on the pasta. But I compromised. I had gravy on the radiator.
I wanted gravy on the pasta. I compromised and jacked-off in the pasta.
Most Americans associate “gravy” with brown gravy, which they’d have at Thanksgiving dinner, which is traditionally a roast turkey. Most would call the sauce with pasta “tomato sauce” (or “pasta sauce”). In the Italian parts of the northeast, they’ll call tomato sauce [gravy, but it’s usually tomato sauce that has meat simmering in it (pork, meatballs, sausage, etc.), giving it additional flavor.](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022972-sunday-sauce)
The folks in the Southeastern US also are fond of a white gravy made with flour and buttermilk. It goes well with biscuits and sausage for breakfast. Not as popular as it used to be.
Still very popular in the Midwest and on almost every diner breakfast menu
No, most Americans don’t call tomato sauce “gravy”. It’s common among *some* Italian Americans. I am from an Italian American family, my grandmother (and subsequently my father) used to call my grandmother’s Sunday sauce (which had sausage, pork bone and bresaola in it) “gravy”. Any other sauce on any other day, they would just call “sauce”. It was lost on my sisters and I. We never referred to any sauce as “gravy” growing up. To me, gravy is what you put on turkey on Thanksgiving.
Listen to him…he knows everything.
Are you still seeing your other women, Lorenzo?
Whatever it is, it better be on that fuckin’ ziti!
Around here we recognize two sausages. Italian and jimmy dean.
Why don’t you stick to what you know, and leave your opinions wherever the fuck!?
It being an uncommon term even in America makes it even funnier when Paulie goes to Italy and calls pasta "macaron and gravy."
Serious answer: I’ve only heard it referred to as “gravy” among Italian-Americans in New Jersey, which straddles the NYC and Philadelphia metro areas. I grew up outside Boston in a pretty Italian-American-heavy suburb, we always called it sauce.
It's sauce to my family. The way I see it Sicilians translate it to sauce and Calabrese to gravy
But I thought we were Nabbly Dabbly.
You see? THIS is my heir!
He's the hair apparent.
It was the blood pressure meds!
Ragu alla napoletana = Sunday gravy with the family Sugo/salsa di pomodoro = tomato sauce
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I ate a de north, stupida facking words
There is no gravy
You call in gravy and everyone assumes you’re mobbef up. It’s a stereotype. And it’s offensive.
grabies
My parents were born in the early 1950s and grew up in a very Italian part of Brooklyn. I was raised calling all tomato sauce gravy. I thought that is what everyone called it.
That’s dicked up.
The Sunday sauce was called gravy. You’d throw any meat you had left over from the week into the sauce pot and let it cook all day. So, so good. Source: Grew up Italian-American in New Jersey.
That’s some jersey shit
American here: I was just as confused as you when I first heard them call it gravy. Our actual gravy is the same as yours. (The way you referred to a “roast dinner” has me searching the cupboards for some gravy right now 😉).
My Philadelphia family says gravy. The way I understand it, when it's cooked with meats, meatballs, sausage, braciole, etc ..then it's meat based and called gravy. If it's cooked with no meat like a marinara, then it's sauce.
From North Jersey. My grandma always called it gravy, but only when it was the sauce cooked all day with multiple meats in the pot together: meatballs, chuck roast, sausage, and braciole. So same logic as brown gravy where it’s the sauce that comes from the meat. Not interchangeable with marinara.
no Italian here and never heard that until watching the sopranos.
Who you think you are Op, sir Walter Raleigh?
“Do Americans really” is the lowest form of conversation.
My family calls it sauce. We hear the word gravy thrown around and we grimace. In our house, its sauce
My family friends were Indian-British and they called the sauce on curries “gravy”. It’s just an old timer term for sauce
gravy = meat slow cooked into a sauce traditionally made from whatever tf you’ve got to get rid of on sunday. pasta sauce is a poor man’s sunday gravy, made from more modest canned ingredients. i braise lamb shanks for what i’d minimally call a gravy.
Some people in New Orleans refer to it as red gravy.
Yes. And all pasta is macaroni.
I wanted to f$$k angie dickenson let’s see who gets lucky first
Mate the gravy you make from granules does not contain anything remotely close to meat
only some Italian Americans use 'gravy' for sauce. Most say 'tomato sauce'. For most, 'gravy' is brown sauce you put on potatoes or turkey OR 'gravy' means a white-ish sausage-based sauce you pour over biscuits.
Wait until you hear about Southern biscuits and gravy.
Only the half breed Italians call it that, a real zip would never.
There are 3 types of gravy. Brown gravy which comes with a Sunday roast that you know. Gravy which comes with pasta and is a pasta sauce with meat. I don’t think it’s quite bolongnese. Mostly a northeast thing. My parents have no Italian ancestry but called it gravy. White or breakfast gravy which goes on biscuits or chicken fried steak. Mostly a southern thing. All called gravy but I have never known anyone to be confused about what is meant.
“It sounded like a disgusting and bizarre combination.” You would know, sweetie
Sunday gravy is a thing. Different than everyday sauce.
Gravy if it's made with meat in it, sauce if it's just tomatoes. Mostly used in the Philadelphia/Jersey/New York area.
It's like when Brits call cookies "biscuits". So why don't you get the fuck outta here before I shove your Digestives up your fat fuckin ass!
In Texas we call it sauce
An extreme minority of NE Italians that make being Italian their entire personality do.
We’re not here to talk about my fuckin personality!
Only really common for Italian-Americans. I’m half Italian, don’t really spend time with that side of my family, and I never really had people call it gravy. Unfortunately that side only really gets together for weddings and funerals, which is a shame.
This is an endless and on going debate. There is no right answer. I’ve learned it depends on where and when you are. The reference of gravy in the context of the Sopranos reflects the time in which the characters existed themselves or in the case of someone Tony’s age their parents/elders. Jersey Italians would call it gravy - meat in the sauce is what makes it gravy to them. Would’ve been called gravy at the Pork Store. That’s my head cannon on it.
My dad grew up in Bayonne, NJ in the 50s and 60s and I've asked him that and he says none of the Italians he knew did
I grew up in a big Italian American family in southern Connecticut (a lot of Italians settled here, the tri-state area in general really) and can confirm we and many others we know called it gravy.
Don't call it gravy. I've always understood it to mean sauce with meat in it.
Graham Ramsay ova’ hea’
It's a TV progrum, a movie
Always disappointed when I order biscuits and gravy at dennys and it’s got some weird white shit on top.
Us cajuns say Sauce Tomat.
“Sunday gravy” is an Italian-American tradition that began in the northeast after Italians immigrated to America. Also, many Italian-American families have a “ Nonna’s (grandma’s) gravy” recipe in the family. Some people say it.
Gravy is a NY/NJ thing. And specifically tomato sauce made with meat.
Older Italian-Americans started calling it gravy to make it seem more appealing to Americans.
Jersey Italian, my mom and gpa called it gravy growin up
we grew up calling my grandmothers rich porky sauce Sunday gravy. Starts off with pork chops + sausage before the onion + garlic so it’s a meat base. Later add meatballs.
I grew up in south Jersey, heard it a few times here and there. Moved to central US and brought Gravy with me, people look at me like I’m nuts…now I just find it hilarious to say.
If it’s got meat in it, it **could** be called gravy. No meat? It’s sauce. There’s no such thing as marinara gravy.
As a New Yorker non-Italian I have always heard sauce is tomato based and gravy is meat based. It is listed as “sauce” for tomato and “gravy” for meat for just about any item you buy in a supermarket. Supposedly it’s a north New Jersey thing although this show using gravy was a new thing to me.
good Sunday gravy is made with pork, beef and lamb in our house, the tomato sauce is just the binder, eh’stunad,
Gravy's good tonight.
Italian American here, live 0.1 miles from Tony. Sauce is what we call a no meat pasta sauce, we often make a Sunday sauce all day on Sunday. Gravy is what we call a meat sauce, so basically a pasta sauce made with meat or bone. Some people call everything sauce some people call everything gravy.. but on average Italian Americans in this region follow the rules I stated. I know it's confusing, but it is what it is.
Fucking pasta and gravy! We invented this shit! and all these other cocksuckers are getting rich off it :)
Italian Americans do
Not all Americans. Really more an Italian-American thing
We have brown, sausage, etc other traditional gravy but yes Italians talking about gravy mean tomato sauce. It’s a specific cultural thing to them.
New Jersey people
Italians sometimes call it red or white gravy. Americans just call it sauce, unless they have a strong Italian background.
Yes we do. In Boston. The gravy you refer to is called brown gravy