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Title: Sauce or gravy?
Post by: cateyes1 on June 22, 2020, 03:22:39 am
When you make spaghetti, do you call it sauce or gravy you put on it?
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Post by: Nancy5 on June 22, 2020, 04:01:58 am
I call it sauce, my husband and his family (italian) call it gravy.
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Post by: bretay on June 22, 2020, 06:39:12 am
sauce for spaghetti..gravy to me is something that goes over rice,potatoes or biscuits
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Post by: bremer51 on June 22, 2020, 07:38:33 am
We refer to it as sauce. 
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Post by: ghunter on June 22, 2020, 07:40:34 am
We like sauce on our spaghetti
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Post by: pkrahmer on June 22, 2020, 09:34:11 am
Even tough it isn't often when i have pasta it has to have meatballs and sauce! :rainbow: :sweat: :peace: :wave:
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Post by: nmbrown863 on June 22, 2020, 01:51:17 pm
I call it spaghetti sauce.
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Post by: Kimdud22 on June 22, 2020, 04:43:18 pm
I call it spaghetti sauce!
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Post by: dreamyxo on June 22, 2020, 11:38:12 pm
Sauce.
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Post by: jkhanson on June 23, 2020, 04:09:37 am
We call it spaghetti sauce.

Gravy is something we make from beef roast juices or fried chicken bits in the pan....
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Post by: 1imaginarygirl on June 23, 2020, 07:06:57 am
Interesting. I've never heard of spaghetti gravy, so I googled it and found this blog.

https://hardcoreitalians.blog/2019/05/22/is-it-sauce-or-gravy-why-italians-argue-about-the-term/

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Where the term came about
Although the term “Gravy” doesn’t exist in Italy, it WAS in fact invented by Italians from Italy. When Italians immigrated to the United States, they tried to assimilate to American culture. Although they wanted to keep their traditions and heritage, they desired to become accepted in the new country. For most Italians, this meant learning English!

During the Americanization process, there was a confusion with the word “Ragu” (A.K.A. Meat Sauce). If you translate “Sugo” to English you get “Sauce” but when you translate “Ragú” to English you get “Ragout.” Ragout is a French-styled stew. Uh, oh!

I’m not sure about you, but if I was new in America trying to fit in… I certainly wouldn’t invite people over for ragout!

This lead to a difference in opinion. Some Italians choose to call it “Meat Sauce” while some decided to call it “Gravy.”

Why gravy? Americans were already using it to describe sauce containing meat. That is actually how it is termed in the definition. Understandable at the time to choose the word, since there weren’t many resources or speech pathologists on hand!

It is rumored that only certain areas started calling it “Gravy.” For example, many people will comment that it’s a ‘Jersey thing.’ However, I’ve heard people from all over the United States use it. This makes it very hard to pinpoint the exact origin.
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Post by: Nancy5 on June 23, 2020, 07:14:43 am
Interesting. I've never heard of spaghetti gravy, so I googled it and found this blog.

https://hardcoreitalians.blog/2019/05/22/is-it-sauce-or-gravy-why-italians-argue-about-the-term/

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Where the term came about
Although the term “Gravy” doesn’t exist in Italy, it WAS in fact invented by Italians from Italy. When Italians immigrated to the United States, they tried to assimilate to American culture. Although they wanted to keep their traditions and heritage, they desired to become accepted in the new country. For most Italians, this meant learning English!

During the Americanization process, there was a confusion with the word “Ragu” (A.K.A. Meat Sauce). If you translate “Sugo” to English you get “Sauce” but when you translate “Ragú” to English you get “Ragout.” Ragout is a French-styled stew. Uh, oh!

I’m not sure about you, but if I was new in America trying to fit in… I certainly wouldn’t invite people over for ragout!

This lead to a difference in opinion. Some Italians choose to call it “Meat Sauce” while some decided to call it “Gravy.”

Why gravy? Americans were already using it to describe sauce containing meat. That is actually how it is termed in the definition. Understandable at the time to choose the word, since there weren’t many resources or speech pathologists on hand!

It is rumored that only certain areas started calling it “Gravy.” For example, many people will comment that it’s a ‘Jersey thing.’ However, I’ve heard people from all over the United States use it. This makes it very hard to pinpoint the exact origin.



That is interesting.  I never knew why my in-laws called it gravy, I just always went along with it.  I called it sauce and usually would call it sauce when in their company.  Thanks for the information.
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Post by: elvisdo on June 23, 2020, 08:15:07 am
I call it sauce, my wife calls it gravy.
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Post by: ktheodos on June 23, 2020, 08:15:10 am
Interesting....I had never heard the term referred to as gravy...I think of gravy as what I put on mashed potatoes...sauce is what I put on spaghetti
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Post by: pectacon on June 23, 2020, 09:08:50 am
Italian family, only ever heard it called sauce. I've never heard anybody call it gravy. I would be so confused if I heard that.
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Post by: timvolley on June 25, 2020, 04:32:56 pm
I don't know anyone who calls it gravy it is always been spaghetti sauce around here
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Post by: heypeg on June 25, 2020, 05:21:18 pm
Sauce of course.
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Post by: catchow on June 25, 2020, 09:07:36 pm
I call it sauce

Gravy to me is what you make from meat juices after cooking, and you add flour and water, and pour over potatoes
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Post by: nickylanena on June 26, 2020, 11:00:45 pm
Sauce. Gravy is for biscuits!  :P :silly:
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Post by: sdenimandlace1 on June 27, 2020, 07:10:56 am
Never heard it called gravy, it is always sauce at my house.
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Post by: minioncookies on June 29, 2020, 01:10:03 am
When i have spaghetti its sauce not gravy. If i had fries on the other hand I'd have that smothered with white country gravy.
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Post by: alina6 on June 29, 2020, 12:35:55 pm
We have always called it sauce in our house.
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Post by: king4cash on June 29, 2020, 12:54:02 pm
for spaghetti, we call it sauce, but with meatballs we call it gravy.
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Post by: wildpanda on June 29, 2020, 01:02:04 pm
I call it sauce, I had no idea that some people called it gravy lol! Probably varies by region of the country
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Post by: JediJohnnie on June 29, 2020, 04:04:56 pm
When you make spaghetti, do you call it sauce or gravy you put on it?

As an Italian we're allowed to call it either!
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Post by: mrsmere on July 03, 2020, 02:13:26 pm
I don't make it but I call it sauce because it's red like salsa.
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Post by: makeblessed on July 04, 2020, 09:14:29 am
Sauce, have never referred to it as gravy.
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Post by: cathy37 on July 04, 2020, 10:12:57 am
To me it is called sauce because to me gravy is brown and you put it on potatoes, rice or certain types of meat.
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Post by: braggin on July 04, 2020, 10:55:49 am
We call is spaghetti sauce. I have never heard it called gravy in my whole life. Gravy is reserved for the liquid brown stuff you put on meat or mashed potatoes.
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Post by: mardukblood2009 on July 04, 2020, 01:10:11 pm
I love spaghetti sauce. I would say Prego is my favorite. My mom does make her own though.
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Post by: suemgross on July 06, 2020, 03:54:57 pm
Spaghetti sauce!!  Gravy (to me) is when you take meat drippings and thicken it with corn starch.  Everything else is a sauce.  You wouldn't put alfredo gravy over pasta. 
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Post by: miltonarmitage on July 06, 2020, 04:13:25 pm
Here's my opinion on this question. I'm of half Italian descent and as I politely argued with my dad who's fbi (full blooded Italian) LOL! Here in America we celebrate Thanksgiving and usually top our mashed potatoes with a brown substance that we call gravy and refer to red pasta sauce as sauce. In Italy, they don't celebrate our Thanksgiving so to them, pasta sauce is gravy. I'm not trying to do away with old customs or traditions but I believe that when in America, you should uphold our traditions, this is not the old country. 
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Post by: plennis on July 10, 2020, 07:53:12 am
sauce for spaghetti..gravy to me is something that goes over rice,potatoes or biscuits

I agree, but it is funny how in different parts of the country things are called by different names.
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Post by: sipingyu on July 10, 2020, 09:36:25 am
I do sauce mostly