Hill Farmstead thread

[Aaron from the Wood]

I think it's an Italian-American thing, but I've never experienced this abomination first-hand.

Source: Google

Edit. GuisseppeFranco has confirmed this for me.

 

[RochesterAaron1]

Being born and raised in the Bronx, NY and of some Italian descent, I've always called red tomato sauce, gravy. I'll jokingly say that if it's made on Sunday, it's gravy.

Married into a very Italian family. Sunday gravy is delicious.

 

[ASUBeer]

There is no way anything that contains tomato product should ever be referred to as gravy.

JulianB , please and thank you.

 

[JulianB1]

Being born and raised in the Bronx, NY and of some Italian descent, I've always called red tomato sauce, gravy. I'll jokingly say that if it's made on Sunday, it's gravy.

No wonder Wakefield doesn't want you on his email list.

 

[GuisseppeFranco]

No wonder Wakefield doesn't want you on his email list.

He can keep his beer, I'll keep my gravy.

One of my conditions that I gave my wife before we got engaged was that she had to learn how to make my mother's gravy.

 

[ncaudle]

if sauce is gravy I don't want to know what you call this

never mind. I unfortunately keep forgetting you yankees don't even know what a biscuit is...

 

[RochesterAaron1]

He can keep his beer, I'll keep my gravy.

One of my conditions that I gave my wife before we got engaged was that she had to learn how to make my mother's gravy.

The wife's family are walking Italian stereotypes (the Arcarisi's). My wife's cousins are all carpenters or stonemasons. They all wear wifebeaters and gold chains. It's almost comical. Every male that married into the family is also Italian and works in the trades (her father is a carpenter, her uncle is a carpenter and his last name is Carbone). So much hugging and kissing all of the time. When they say "my cousin" they usually mean someone who's like 8 times removed. "the family" coming over means 40+ people, etc.

My wife however, does not look the part. She has blond hair and blue eyes. Her mother was adopted. When we were dating we had so many amazing dinners and I fell in love with her family's gravy. Imagine my disappointment when we moved in together and I found out she can't cook at all. The one time she tried to learn to make their gravy it was inedible. Luckily the wife's mother and grandmother (Nonni and I have a special relationship) take care of me and we have a freezer full of delicious slow-cooked meaty gravy.

 

[abawol01]

He can keep his beer, I'll keep my gravy.

One of my conditions that I gave my wife before we got engaged was that she had to learn how to make my mother's gravy.

Stop calling red sauce gravy. Now.

 

[Number45]

if sauce is gravy I don't want to know what you call this

never mind. I unfortunately keep forgetting you yankees don't even know what a biscuit is...

********. I got a sausage biscuit at McDonald's just the other day.

 

[smo]

Being born and raised in the Bronx, NY and of some Italian descent, I've always called red tomato sauce, gravy. I'll jokingly say that if it's made on Sunday, it's gravy.

Growing up in Pittsburgh and living/working in NYC/NJ for 10 years - I couldn't get over red sauce being called Gravy from one of my Italian friends. He also called every single style of pasta Macaroni. I couldn't help but laugh every time he referred to one or the other.

 

[RochesterAaron1]

Turkey Gravy:

Sunday Gravy:

Sausage Gravy:

 

[ncaudle]

sausage biscuit at McDonald's

 

[PHBoiler]

Terrible camera phone pic, but that's 8 hour stewed pork neckbone gravy. I don't call all red sauce gravy. Only one stewed with pork neckbones all Sunday.

 

[ncaudle]

damn, that looks good and reminds me that I should pull out a quart of my girlfriends Moms sauce (looks just like that) from the freezer for the weekend

 

[RyanG1]

Turkey Gravy:

Sunday Gravy:

Sausage Gravy:

Combine them all to create the one that will rule them all!

 

[ncaudle]

Combine them all to create the one that will rule them all!

I think I'm glad my work filter is preventing this pic from showing. I think...

 

[ncaudle]

dont forget

 

[GuisseppeFranco]

Growing up in Pittsburgh and living/working in NYC/NJ for 10 years - I couldn't get over red sauce being called Gravy from one of my Italian friends. He also called every single style of pasta Macaroni. I couldn't help but laugh every time he referred to one or the other.

Haha, that's the way my mother will say it. She'll say on Sunday "do you wanna eat over? I'm making macaroni and gravy." Which usually means rigatoni but can definitely mean fusilli, cavatelli, penne or spaghetti.

 

[GuisseppeFranco]

The wife's family are walking Italian stereotypes (the Arcarisi's). My wife's cousins are all carpenters or stonemasons. They all wear wifebeaters and gold chains. It's almost comical. Every male that married into the family is also Italian and works in the trades (her father is a carpenter, her uncle is a carpenter and his last name is Carbone). So much hugging and kissing all of the time. When they say "my cousin" they usually mean someone who's like 8 times removed. "the family" coming over means 40+ people, etc.

My wife however, does not look the part. She has blond hair and blue eyes. Her mother was adopted. When we were dating we had so many amazing dinners and I fell in love with her family's gravy. Imagine my disappointment when we moved in together and I found out she can't cook at all. The one time she tried to learn to make their gravy it was inedible. Luckily the wife's mother and grandmother (Nonni and I have a special relationship) take care of me and we have a freezer full of delicious slow-cooked meaty gravy.

Sounds like my mother's side of the family. I actually have a classic, NY style Italian christening to go to on Sunday. This thing will be like a small wedding. It's at a catering hall and prob costs close to $100/plate. There'll be plenty of man-kissing, pinky rings and gold chains.

 

[Sean802]

(******* yankees!)

...you yankees...

this is still a thing? But srsly, don't lump me in with these sketchy Italian people.

 

[ncaudle]

this is still a thing? But srsly, don't lump me in with these sketchy Italian people.

it's a term of endearment!
(and jest...)

 

[axeman91821]

#TeamRedGravy ftw. We just say gravy to apply to any of the three, and in the context of what we're going to be eating there's never any confusion. And yes, there's a difference between red sauce and gravy.

 

[ilikegoodbeerCT]

All this gravy is making me hungry

Cd15 is also dope as hell. Yep.

 

[BadJustin]

So many mayonnaise faces. It's gravy.

 

[WillRunForBeer1]

There is no way anything that contains tomato product should ever be referred to as gravy.

Or chowder!

 

[tbub18]

Or chowder!

Is that the red or the white?

 

[coldafpipes]

it's a term of endearment!
(and jest...)

I found this...on the internet....

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast

Is this an 'all of the above' thing? or do you just mean #2?

 

[GuisseppeFranco]

From my wife 15 minutes ago...

 

[Os]

I'm on my way!

 

[ncaudle]

I found this...on the internet....

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast

Is this an 'all of the above' thing? or do you just mean #2?

#2.47