Really, I never heard sauce referred to as gravy. I asked my sister and she never heard it either. It's offensive to my ears. Uggh! Why gravy? It's Sauce. Sauce makes sense. I never heard of spaghetti gravy. It's spaghetti sauce.

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It is spaghetti sauce.

But ask your sister what she calls it if she adds meatballs and/ or sausages to it.

It not called meats in the sauce!

Oh boy PB. You sure we didn't grow up in the same house? My mom always saved me a fried meatball before it went into the gravy. I'd eat it when I got home, and then as I said in my other post, I'd sneak another one out of the gravy.

How many times, when you were a kid, did your mother send you to buy italian bread, and by the time your reached your house you already ate a 1/4 of it?

Hey, I was trying to be nice. Among New York Italians, it's called gravy.

Help me out here, Cardi.

Well, considering that Addeo was on my way home from Church, a lot!

Yup, a fried meatbal sprinkled with a little grated cheese, tucked into the business end of a nice Bastone. Minchia!

My mother always had to tell my brother to buy two loaves of bread - one for dinner and one for him to eat on the walk home from the bakery!!

And here's a "gravy" endorsement from your fellow NYer.

I've never heard spaghetti sauce referred to as gravy once the meat is added. This is new to me. I'll have to ask my wife or brother-in-law if they knew about this.

I've heard it called gravy, and I assume it is derived from meat sauce in Italy being called Ragu, which is the equivalent of "gravy"instead of tomato sauce.

Sauce is red, Gravy is brown. Sauce is derived from tomatoes, gravy is derived from animals; beef, chicken, pork.

By DC's logic, Brown Gravy without meat would be called sauce....yes?

Gravy can be white, brown, gray, reddish....it depends.

It's called thick juice..in my family.

I don't know if I'd be eating anything with gray gravy on it.

No.

But tell me my friend, what do you call it when you put meatballs, sausage and braciole in red tomato sauce?

I had it in elementary school with mystery meat.

Biscuits and gravy?

Biscuits and gravy YUMMY!!!!

Sunday Gravy - a variety of meat which usually includes meatballs, braciole, sausage, and pork bones.

I want braciole now. Hope you're happy.

God, I'm getting agita reading G-r-a-v-y. Stop it! It's sauce.

Is Gravy not a well used term then in the U.S then?

My family always called it gravy, as did the family of Pizzaboy and Don Cardi. TIS and Olivant have always called it sauce.

Obviously it IS gravy, depending on where you come from. And Olivant, if something as simple as the word gravy gives you agita, you need to take up yoga or meditation.

Thanks for clearing that up SB, i always assumed everyone called it Gravy in the U.S because of the sopranos

It's juice!!!!!

Repeatedly posting the words agita and madonne doesn't make you any more Italian than anyone else on these boards. You're from Texas, by way of Backwoods, Pennsylvania, you couldn't possibly understand, nor do we expect you to.

Babe's right, take up yoga.

As I've said before...it's quite simple.

When you make a Marinara Sauce, or a spaghetti sauce, a bolognese sauce, a mushroom sauce, a puttanesca sauce, it's called SAUCE.

Once you add Meatballs, Sausage, and / or Bracciole, it becomes a GRAVY.

Marinara, Bolognese, Puttanesca Sauce.

Meats in the Gravy


And if you don't know how to make your meats in the GRAVY, THEN you can get agita!

Interesting article on the subject.

Sauce Or Gravy

A thick liquid??

I just read that myself and was about to post it.

Even Uncle Junior calls it SUNDAY GRAVY

Sorry olivant.

You're thinking of Franco American Spaghetti-o's sauce.

You are dude not me