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Sauce / Gravy

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To me, sauce is red, and goes on pasta.
Gravy is usually brown, and goes on meat and potatoes.
Italians disagree.


Sauce is a euphemism for booze. Gravy is a euphemism for money.


@chaney3 said
To me, sauce is red, and goes on pasta.
Gravy is usually brown, and goes on meat and potatoes.
Italians disagree.
And whatabout Hollandaise ? It's neither red nor brown.

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@chaney3
Marinara sauce, Alfredo sauce yes. Gravy can be almost white as in country style gravy made with sausage grease, flour and milk. Drippings and water, flour are brown. Red-eye gravy is drippings from country ham sugar and black coffee. Country ham, they keep it in a vat of dry salt, which they turn or flip occasionally for 90+ days. The resulting ham has little moisture dried out like jerky, salty as salt, and great fried with bisquits and red-eye gravy. Or. Chunked up in a pot of beans, which you don't add salt to. One time we did, had to use the potato trick...[text shortened because boring old man's story]
And we did it, and was happy about it.


@moonbus
Mostly egg yolks


Gravy and sauce no longer exist. Now it's coulis and jus and aioli.


@chaney3 said
To me, sauce is red, and goes on pasta.
Gravy is usually brown, and goes on meat and potatoes.
Italians disagree.
Gravy is based on the juice of meat. This is not necessarily so - and often not the case - with sauce. Gravy is a kind of sauce that just so happens to have a term of its own..


@chaney3 said
To me, sauce is red, and goes on pasta.
Gravy is usually brown, and goes on meat and potatoes.
Italians disagree.
The best sauces are white. Gravy (brown) also goes well on chips.


@moonbus said
And whatabout Hollandaise ? It's neither red nor brown.
It's a French abomination which has nothing to do with Holland, let alone the rest of the Netherlands.


@ghost-of-a-duke said
The best sauces are white. Gravy (brown) also goes well on chips.
Gravy on chips is OK, but brown sauce on chips is better.

The best sauces are made together with the dish they're served with, not made separately and slopped all over the steak afterwards despite having nothing really to do with the meat. The Italians understand this, the French do not.


@chaney3 said
To me, sauce is red, and goes on pasta.
Gravy is usually brown, and goes on meat and potatoes.
Italians disagree.
Italians call the red 'sauce' that they put on pasta.....gravy. I tried to explain that it's called sauce, but to no avail.


Worcestershire sauce is one of my favourite substances that is called "sauce" but I think it is a condiment and I'm unsure if that qualifies as a sauce.

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
The best sauces are white. Gravy (brown) also goes well on chips.
except chip shop curry sauce my good man

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@fmf said
Sauce is a euphemism for booze. Gravy is a euphemism for money.
I thought bread was the euphemism for money.


@ghost-of-a-duke said
The best sauces are white.
That's racist!