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greeneyed · 12-23-2009, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ChshreCat

Biscuits and gravy are an anytime thing. We have them for dinner with regularity.

X2 It is great, because dinner can be done in 10-15 minutes.

**dataz722** · 12-23-2009, 06:30 PM

Or instead of biscuits a lot of times I will put it over eggs and hashbrowns. Damn, I am really starting to get hungry and I just ate.

jgln · 12-23-2009, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by dataz722

It is more of a southern thing but we aren't exactly in the great north. Maybe its because I grew up in and my family was mostly from the "country".

edit- have you ever had chip beef gravy? That is kind of the yankee version.

Like creamed beef? As a kid I never found it appetizing. As an adult I have never tried it again.

No excuse for not knowing or tasting other foods but my family is Irish, Scottish, Welch and English up and down. We grew up primarily under Irish and Italian influences. Typical Irish meat and potatoes family. The only southern people I really came into contact with were on TV like the Beverly Hillbillies.

I did have pigfarms back up to our yard for several years growing up before they were abandoned, but most of us were just Philly transplants not farmers. Sometimes they would get loose in our yard.

Today my menu has broadened somewhat of course.

Biscuits growing up were pretty much served with stew at dinner or at Thanksgiving with Turkey. My mom used to drop uncooked biscuit dough into beef stew near the end of cooking to make dumplings too

jgln · 12-23-2009, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by greeneyed

X2 It is great, because dinner can be done in 10-15 minutes.

My mom would often make pancakes and sausage for dinner. Then again she would throw some sauerkraut on hotdogs and call it dinner. We were not poor but not rich either and we were a big one income family.

**dataz722** · 12-23-2009, 06:47 PM

I don't know if it is the same as creamed beef. It is little bits of dried and cured beef (pretty much thin jerkey but without nearly as much flavor) in white gravy. Its usually served over toast or biscuits. Also known as sos or sh!t on a shingle.

jgln · 12-23-2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by dataz722

I don't know if it is the same as creamed beef. It is little bits of dried and cured beef (pretty much thin jerkey but without nearly as much flavor) in white gravy. Its usually served over toast or biscuits. Also known as sos or sh!t on a shingle.

I think it is. I think beef in white gravy instead of brown turned me off as a kid. Back then it came in a sealed boil bag just like sliced beef and turkey did in gravy. Serve either hot on 2 slices of white bread. Next best thing to TV dinners back then. I love my working class roots.

Wellshooter · 12-23-2009, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by jgln

The use of tomatoes to make sauces (Italian gravy) is pretty common around here. No different than what you put on pizza, lasagna or spaghetti. Order a sausage sandwich (excluding breakfast sandwiches) it will usually come in tomato sauce. That is unless you are ordering a hot sausage link sandwich (hot dog shape), then it will come plain but with whatever toppings you like.

I think we are using two entirely different definitions of gravy here.

jgln · 12-23-2009, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Wellshooter

I think we are using two entirely different definitions of gravy here.

That was me explaining it is not ketchup on the sausage. Many Italians call what most of us call tomato sauce gravy. To me gravy is made with beef, turkey or chicken drippings.

jgln · 12-23-2009, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Wellshooter

Tomato based gravy? Must be one of those ketchup on eggs things...

....and yes, I do sometimes put ketchup on scrambled eggs.

david_42 · 12-23-2009, 07:26 PM

I don't remember my mother ever making gravy and biscuits. Breakfast was mostly oatmeal or cold cereal, depending on the weather. Maybe waffles on a weekend. She did make SoS. Dad loved it. I don't.

Biscuits and gravy are a big deal around here. The local restaurants have them available all day.