I have found in R.I. regardless of country of birth gravy is used by most who reside in the west bay area of the state and sauce in the east bay where I reside. Providence is the dividing line and it is a coin flip there.
Yes I most certainly agree that Italian food is so different from region to region especially when it comes to meatballs. I can remember when I was a kid I had a good girlfriend who was Sicilian and my family is from the Puglia region. I was invited to her house for meatballs and spaghetti, and was shocked to discover when I took a bite of a meatball there were raisins in it. The meatballs weren't bad, but not a practice I would adopt when I began making my own.
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