Italian sauce

Rosebud816 · ‎07-16-2010

I have never heard a real italian call their sauce gravy! One of the hosts that claims to be italian claims they do call it gravy!

PA Mom-mom · ‎05-27-2015

@Rosebud816 I think it depends what part of the country you come from. I've heard both. Our neighbors were from north Jersey, and they called it gravy. No one ever got pugilistic over it though. What's with that? Jane needs to calm down!

nana59 · ‎05-12-2012

grew up in an italian neighborhood...everyone called it gravy!

PickyPicky3 · ‎10-22-2018

In the Philadelphia area many people call it gravy.

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

I was in my 40's when I found out from an Italian co-worker that gravy=tomato sauce.

"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

I'm on the Pa. border, and the nearby town was more or less founded by Italians on the railroad. Every Italian I know or worked with called sauce gravy.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

homedecor1 · ‎03-09-2010

@Rosebud816

I grew up in big italian family from NJ we always called spaghetti sauce "Sunday Gravy".

every Sunday we went to my Nonna's house for dinner after church.

docsgirl · ‎03-09-2010

I'm Italian and my dear mother always called her sauce 'gravy.' Her sisters also called it 'gravy.' The first time I brought my non-Italian husband to dinner, he was confused because he said 'gravy' was what he had at Thanksgiving. He never got used to calling Mom's sauce 'gravy' but he loved it and he loved her. By the way, we were from New York City so it may be an East Coast thing. docsgirl

Boehm Collector · ‎03-09-2010

My grandparents came to this country from Italy. They lived in Pennsylvania and eventually moved to New York. They and all their children always called sauce "gravy". But I have gotten out of that habit.