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  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    hedonist said:
    Paulie Walnuts calls it gravy =)
    “Gravy’s good tonight” —Uncle Junior
    How’d using gravy in Italy work out for Paulie 
  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    Listen, I am fine with gravy, but to act like it is anything more than a Philly/Jersey saying is ridiculous 
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    edited March 2020
    Listen, I am fine with gravy, but to act like it is anything more than a Philly/Jersey saying is ridiculous 
    There is clearly some gray areas with this. But to come out and tell me that what I made is not gravy, when my Italian family has been calling it gravy for decades and decades and decades and decades is what seems most ridiculous. Sorry!


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  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    edited March 2020
    Listen, I am fine with gravy, but to act like it is anything more than a Philly/Jersey saying is ridiculous 
    There is clearly some gray areas with this. But to come out and tell me that what I made is not gravy, when my Italian family has been calling it gravy for decades and decades and decades and decades is what seems most ridiculous. Sorry!


    Lol relax. I make something very similar looking to yours. I don’t call it gravy because my dad didn’t call it gravy, plus we’re “medegons” but have been told it’s bolognese not gravy. Everyone loves it and that’s all that matters. I am sure it came from the fact that all the south philly restaurants have bolognese and gravy as two different menu items. I got no dog in the fight. 

    either way, the zucchini noodles are way more offensive!! I kid...sort of.

    All that matters to me is how good it is and the company on sundays when we make either families recipe 
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    Listen, I am fine with gravy, but to act like it is anything more than a Philly/Jersey saying is ridiculous 
    There is clearly some gray areas with this. But to come out and tell me that what I made is not gravy, when my Italian family has been calling it gravy for decades and decades and decades and decades is what seems most ridiculous. Sorry!


    Lol relax. I make something very similar looking to yours. I don’t call it gravy because my dad didn’t call it gravy, plus we’re “medegons” but have been told it’s bolognese not gravy. Everyone loves it and that’s all that matters. I am sure it came from the fact that all the south philly restaurants have bolognese and gravy as two different menu items. I got no dog in the fight. 

    either way, the zucchini noodles are way more offensive!! I kid...sort of.

    All that matters to me is how good it is and the company on sundays when we make either families recipe 
    Thanks Cliff. 


    But....that’s still fucking gravy in that picture. Hahaha
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  • Had this debate with my brother one time when I first moved to the area and called it gravy.  (He lived in NYC around our first generation Italian family members for years)
    He was appalled.  I laughed like crazy and now and 100% certain to call anything that goes on pasta Gravy no matter the context, just to bug the fuck out of him.
    His initial quote was something like "I lived with/among out Italian Immigrant family for years and I never heard one of them call it gravy - that is stupid!"
    Right.
    Because one city / area is the only one with any claim on authentic Italian heritage.
    :lol:

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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    Damnit people, words have meaning! Without standardized definitions we are naught but apes flinging our feces about wantonly.
    Might as well drive in the curb strip like unwarshed yinzers.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • :lol:

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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Posts: 16,440
    Gotta side with gambs & Cliffy on this one.  I've never once in my life heard anyone - Italian or not - call it gravy until the three people on this forum. I'll call it delicious, but it's bolognese sauce. ;)
  • Dyer, stop off the turnpike for a delicious meal, will take you to my local deli where they make the good stuff.  (And, where they call the stuff that goes on the pasta, gravy.)

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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Baby gravy?
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • dankind said:
    Baby gravy?

    Man chowda?
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    dankind said:
    Baby gravy?

    Man chowda?

    Take a dump, baby, squirt some gravy
    Pour some sugar on me, honey, make it brown and runny

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  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    Lunch wasn’t bad 
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Lunch wasn’t bad 
    Someone nutted all over (and under) that fish
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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Posts: 16,440
    Dyer, stop off the turnpike for a delicious meal, will take you to my local deli where they make the good stuff.  (And, where they call the stuff that goes on the pasta, gravy.)

    One of these days, I'm gonna finally take you (and Scruffy) up on your food tour offers!
  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    dankind said:
    Lunch wasn’t bad 
    Someone nutted all over (and under) that fish
    Jeeeesus.  Lunch takes on a different vibe now.
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    edited March 2020
    dankind said:
    Lunch wasn’t bad 
    Someone nutted all over (and under) that fish
    Jeeeesus.  Lunch takes on a different vibe now.
    The different vibe might explain all the nut.
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  • Dyer, stop off the turnpike for a delicious meal, will take you to my local deli where they make the good stuff.  (And, where they call the stuff that goes on the pasta, gravy.)

    One of these days, I'm gonna finally take you (and Scruffy) up on your food tour offers!

    Do so!
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  • dankind said:
    Lunch wasn’t bad 
    Someone nutted all over (and under) that fish
    Jeeeesus.  Lunch takes on a different vibe now.

    Hahahaha.  Nice.
    (That does look excellent)
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    Gotta side with gambs & Cliffy on this one.  I've never once in my life heard anyone - Italian or not - call it gravy until the three people on this forum. I'll call it delicious, but it's bolognese sauce. ;)
    Fine. I will fight all of you. 
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  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    For the record, I am not opposed to the word gravy. I call my what the wife's family makes gravy or what I order for sides at villa di roma or dante and luigis.  My debate was more if a bolognese is considered gravy
  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    dankind said:
    Lunch wasn’t bad 
    Someone nutted all over (and under) that fish
    Jeeeesus.  Lunch takes on a different vibe now.

    Hahahaha.  Nice.
    (That does look excellent)
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    For the record, I am not opposed to the word gravy. I call my what the wife's family makes gravy or what I order for sides at villa di roma or dante and luigis.  My debate was more if a bolognese is considered gravy
    If I recall correctly, bolognese is "Sunday gravy," whereas a meatless marinara-type sauce is simply "gravy." At least that's how I think the mouth-breathing tracksuits and gold chains in my old Brooklyn neighborhood referred to these things.
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  • Cliffy6745Cliffy6745 Posts: 33,840
    dankind said:
    For the record, I am not opposed to the word gravy. I call my what the wife's family makes gravy or what I order for sides at villa di roma or dante and luigis.  My debate was more if a bolognese is considered gravy
    If I recall correctly, bolognese is "Sunday gravy," whereas a meatless marinara-type sauce is simply "gravy." At least that's how I think the mouth-breathing tracksuits and gold chains in my old Brooklyn neighborhood referred to these things.
    Interesting. Makes some sense.
  • eddieceddiec Posts: 3,881

    English translation of 'ragù'

    ragù

    (raˈɡu)

    invariable masculine noun

    1. (cookery) meat sauce
      spaghetti al ragù spaghetti with meat sauce

  • eddieceddiec Posts: 3,881
    dankind said:
    For the record, I am not opposed to the word gravy. I call my what the wife's family makes gravy or what I order for sides at villa di roma or dante and luigis.  My debate was more if a bolognese is considered gravy
    If I recall correctly, bolognese is "Sunday gravy," whereas a meatless marinara-type sauce is simply "gravy." At least that's how I think the mouth-breathing tracksuits and gold chains in my old Brooklyn neighborhood referred to these things.
    My mom is from Bay Ridge. We've always called it sauce.

  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    eddiec said:
    dankind said:
    For the record, I am not opposed to the word gravy. I call my what the wife's family makes gravy or what I order for sides at villa di roma or dante and luigis.  My debate was more if a bolognese is considered gravy
    If I recall correctly, bolognese is "Sunday gravy," whereas a meatless marinara-type sauce is simply "gravy." At least that's how I think the mouth-breathing tracksuits and gold chains in my old Brooklyn neighborhood referred to these things.
    My mom is from Bay Ridge. We've always called it sauce.

    Did your old man hit your hair?
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  • eddieceddiec Posts: 3,881
    edited March 2020
    dankind said:
    eddiec said:
    dankind said:
    For the record, I am not opposed to the word gravy. I call my what the wife's family makes gravy or what I order for sides at villa di roma or dante and luigis.  My debate was more if a bolognese is considered gravy
    If I recall correctly, bolognese is "Sunday gravy," whereas a meatless marinara-type sauce is simply "gravy." At least that's how I think the mouth-breathing tracksuits and gold chains in my old Brooklyn neighborhood referred to these things.
    My mom is from Bay Ridge. We've always called it sauce.

    Did your old man hit your hair?
    No, he was Washington Heights. He knew better than to touch my hair on a Saturday night.
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,567
    Made paella tonight, having my usual vodka martini to start..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
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