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Blackcameleopard t1_iwbk5qn wrote

Nobody believes you didn’t know sauce. Go to any grocery store and post a pic where all jars say tomato gravy instead of sauce. I’ll eat my hat. Italians don’t use that. Using the drippings from meats to make meat gravy and Sunday sauce is where it came from, but doesn’t change the fact that without flour/cornstarch/etc it doesn’t become a roux which is what gravy is. If your upbringing had any of that in the sauce it would instantly be a gross thing. You add pasta water at the end for binding.

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Sleepy_Like_Me OP t1_iwbnquq wrote

Listen I just called it gravy here bc that’s what I hear ppl call it. Where I’m from it was always sauce.

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Blackcameleopard t1_iwcga6h wrote

Most everyone isn’t a meme human with accents that are accentuated as caricatures of a location. In the same way that going to Boston doesn’t necessitate people sounding like they do in Boston films. I don’t try to use a catchphrase amongst friends with a stranger for the same reason.

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courageous_liquid t1_iwdwaea wrote

Half my family calls it gravy and half just calls it sauce. They grew up on opposite sides of delco and are from the same grandparents who got off the boat in the late 20s. It's vaguely comical.

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Blackcameleopard t1_iwmndau wrote

Do they get it mixed and make an Italian ikea special of brown gravy with Italian meatballs and murder turkey covered in red sauce?

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