[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

Thank you. I agree it is all yummy....especially so if home made.
Rare restaurant that gets it right. I also think I said in earlier posts that I do understand the difference as today we have always called it sauce.
But I was referring to the OLDTIMERS in my dad's family who called it GRAVY.
I was a kid when they all died.

A little levity....my humble opinion is that on Sunday it was gravy with all the meats in it (recipe which I just sent) but then by midweek it might have become just sauce.........

My Dad became more Americanized after he moved to New Jersey and we were born........irregardless of what the New York gang called it, but even in the 50's I recall him using the term gravy.. I don't quibble over words; as I call it sauce myself. But my immigrants did call it gravy. That's what I meant.

Next door to us, growing up in Jersey, was a true blue Italian father born in Italy and his wife with 5 big sons and one daughter, my little girlfriend. That mom made huge pots of SUNDAY GRAVY.......and they ate pasta or macaroni of different shapes and sizes all week long.......as I recall waiting for her to finish her supper......(while sitting on her back screened in porch)........

My Ukrainian mom and Italian dad cooked a variety of food and we did not eat the SUNDAY SAUCE all week long............but that family did.......I'm sure the meat became very tender as I do recall the leftovers were always even better.

My little friend had to go to the butcher for her mom and I would tag along..........she also had to sweep up all the crumbs those big brothers and father got on the floor..........we were a much smaller family and my mom was not Italian. Our neighborhood was German and Irish, Polish and Italian.
However in doing the Italian genealogy..........I can see where perhaps they got regional cooking ideas from Sicily as everyone assimilated into American culture. I have to close down as I am getting hungry............in the winter I love to make all the Italian soups..........those peasants were ahead of their time as nowadays these soups I was raised on, lentil, pasta fagioli (beans and macaroni) escarole and bean, etc. are all now considered health foods.

I loved lentil soup, etc. , broccoli with garlic and olive oil, etc. Now, the grandkids prefer pizza and Macdonalds.

Thanks for the response. I'll close now too and in doing so leave a schedule for what days we'll call it sauce and what days we call it gravy:

• Call it Sauce On: Saturdays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays
• Call it Gravy On: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
• Above schedule on odd months, switch days on even months.