Don't say that to anyone from Brooklyn...lolGravy is made from dripping and/or roux. Sauce is for pasta. One does not put gravy on pasta. Unless it is cheese sauce for mac and cheese. Thus spoke Zarathustra
In the time I lived in Jersey, I don't recall any Italian I knew to call pasta sauce anything other than gravy.Don't say that to anyone from Brooklyn...lol
Having been born and raised in Jersey, and married to a full Italian, also born and raised in Jersey, I agree 110%. Any Tomato based sauce that you put on pasta or meatballs, etc., will forever be referred to as gravy. Any other reference to this is verboten. I learned this many times over, lol.In the time I lived in Jersey, I don't recall any Italian I knew to call pasta sauce anything other than gravy.
Chris, you had me at pearly....and pearly white smiles.
Chris
Dave if you want to start a new thread about ribs everyday go right ahead I got no problem with it. Now if you copy and paste the info from one thread into the next one to create it that might be a bit much but if it's not the same exact words post on. We used to get some members who liked to tell people to do a search before posting a question and that was dealt with. The search feature doesn't work all that great at times and many members have a hard time figuring it out. Our answer was if you don't like answering the same question then don't another member will be more than happy to. Dave that comment was not directed to you at all I have seen you answer the same question more than a couple times, heck I've probably ask you the same questions multiple times.
And they would all be wrong....Having been born and raised in Jersey, and married to a full Italian, also born and raised in Jersey, I agree 110%. Any Tomato based sauce that you put on pasta or meatballs, etc., will forever be referred to as gravy. Any other reference to this is verboten. I learned this many times over, lol.
Exactly. Bay Ridge Brooklyn is about as authentic Italian as you can get without going back to the "Motherland." Still to this day. We visit friends there once in a great while and they have some of the best Italian Bakeries and restaurants. When we go there we always ask for extra "Gravy."From what I understand. The term gravy - meaning spaghetti sauce comes from early 20th, late 19th century Italian immigrant woman. Who brought their recipes over from the homeland. Another old proper name for spaghetti sauce is Ragu.
My mom who grew up in Fort Hamilton and Bay Ridge Brooklyn had many a friend in her yout who were very Italian(if you know what I mean), and she was taught at an early age that the proper way of asking for extra sauce was "Can I have some extra gravy on my pasta".
Chris