[gabby]

Originally Posted by EdVinMass

By the way, does anyone know what became of Ronda? She had over 1700 posts and was quite active in TOTV when I joined over a year ago. But she hasn't posted since Feb 09. Just curious.

good question, anyone?

[zcaveman]

She moved to another Villages site.

[zcaveman]

The first time I heard sauce called gravy was when I moved to NJ and visited a couple of Italian friends.

[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by EdVinMass

By the way, does anyone know what became of Ronda? She had over 1700 posts and was quite active in TOTV when I joined over a year ago. But she hasn't posted since Feb 09. Just curious.

She still lives in TV - just not on this site.

[Shirleevee]

Originally Posted by RichieLion

Like others of Italian descent from NYC on this tread it was always macaroni with gravy in my house. It simmered almost all day with meatballs, sausage, pork etc. in it and that made the "sauce" gravy.

This second generation NYC, Brooklyn, Staten Island Italian calls it, "gravy"!

[Kelsie52]

This Irish guy who by the way is married to a Brooklyn born Italian was taught from day one by the inlaws --Sauce ---on Sunday --

Hey lets go to dinner at the restaurent in the Villages called "Red Gravy"

hope my wife does not read this -----I am not allowed to have any other sauce but hers !!

[SABRMnLgs]

Gravy is something you put on beef, brisket and potatoes. Or if'n you're a Southerner "Biscuits and Gravy" Even being from up North, I never heard it called "Biscuits and sauce".

[rhondac]

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Originally Posted by Rokinronda

[Frank7]

I my house Mom made a beautiful sauce with all the fixens, she served the pasta covered with it and on the table was a gravy pitcher and we said (please pass the gravy). So everybody is right.

[applesoffh]

This Italian-American makes sauce...her mom makes sauce and her nonnas made sauce. Gravy is for meat.

Grandparents from Menfi/Ribera/Palermo - 100% Sicilian...to Brooklyn.

Also - macaroni...never pasta

[Yankee Quilter]

Both Joe and I grew up in Italian homes ... Sauce! Never heard of gravy on pasta until the Sopranos!

[Shirleevee]

gravy

[skyguy79]

I'm 100% Italian with all grandparents having come here from Italy. As I read through the posts in this thread, I found statements that I found amusing; statements that indicate what they think justifying the usage of the term they think is correct. The most glaring and humorous was one that read something like... It's gravy because it's on the label of a jar. I won't say what I think of that reasoning. I've even read in an internet article where a chef explained the difference by stating that if the pasta is wet and not throughly drained, it's called sauce because the gravy was diluted. But if it's put on a drained bed of spaghetti, pasta or whatever you wanna call it, it's gravy. Another bright explanation!

Now is there really a correct term? Well basically you can call it whatever you want. Right or wrong, nobody's gonna stop you from using the term and neither is really 100% correct. The real issue is what is really the more appropriate term? One simple test is to do a Google search on the exact terms and see just how many hits you get on each. I did just that and here are the results:

• "Spaghetti Gravy: 22,700 hits
• "Spaghetti Sauce: 4,550,000 hits

With Sauce having 200 times more hits than Gravy, I think there is a clear winner and that it's by far the more "appropriate" term to use if not the "proper" term. Supporting that is the fact that if you check the definition of both terms, you'll find out that gravy is a form of sauce while there is no mention of sauce being a form of gravy.

I have never ever heard of using the name gravy for topping spaghetti or pasta by any member of my now departed past generations. In fact I don't remember when I even heard it used for spaghetti or pasta for the first time, but it wasn't in my youth. Gravy was as others have indicated a sauce to use on meats, poultry, stuffing, mashed potatoes etc., but not for topping spaghetti or pasta. Matter of fact my familia frequently used the Italian term of Sugo (pronounced Zugou) for spaghetti sauce which technically covers both gravy and sauce as well as juice and essence. We even called the end cuts of the Italian bread "Cula" (pronounced Gulah or Goolou) meaning "A**" in Italian. The Cula was my favorite, but I'm not gonna tell you what I did with it!

[Gerald]

Please invite me over to try either. It is not what you call it but what it tastes like. So you need an expert to judge. I have lots of free days to come over for a sample. Please no thank you needed. Pasta anyone.

[EdV]

OK, then answer this. What do the labels on the jars in the supermarket say?