Gravy? Who Are All These Italians Who Call Tomato Sauce “Gravy”
Please, whatever you do, do not call Pasta Sauce "Gravy" when in my presence. Thank You.
It annoys the hell out of me. The first time I heard it I was living in Los Angeles when a friend of mine named Pat from New Jersey first uttered the word. I was like “Pat, what did you say?” And he said “Gravy”. “What the hell is gravy?” I asked. The context in which he said the word was odd. But what Pat was referring to was pasta sauce, or tomato sauce. “I have never heard of such a thing” I told Pat. And he said that in Jersey, everybody calls it gravy.
My best friend Joey chimed in — “That’s stupid!” Joey and I grew up together in the same neighborhood in New Haven. “Yeah, stupid” I concurred. Why would someone call tomato sauce gravy anyway.
Who would have figured that this word would cause an all out war between the Connecticut Italians and those bastards known as the Jersey Italians. And yeah, I guess that includes you Frankie Valli.
Tomato sauce is tomato sauce — It is not “gravy” Gravy is for the fricken turkey on Thanksgiving or the white stuff on top of biscuits when you are having breakfast in Alabama or some other jamoke town down there. You want gravy — go to Kentucky Fried Chicken and have Colonel Friggin Sanders hit you with some. But please, do not order a dish of ziti meat gravy, cause I might just have to kick your ass.
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You know nothing, don’t criticize us “Jersey Italians”. Your the bastards for being stereotypical.
I totally agree. I hate when people say, Italians call it red sauce gravy. We’ve always called it sauce, and we’re 100 percent italian. My grandparents are right from Italy.
I am 100% Italian, from Jersey, and proud of it…it will always be called gravy…don’t really care what you say about it!!!!
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