Do you call it Sauce or Gravy?
@amadeo (111938)
United States
September 8, 2016 4:09pm CST
Good afternoon.Quiet day here.While I was making my tomato sauce and thinking that there was a dispute on this.
I call my tomato sauce and not gravy.Most Italians call it gravy.
When I think of gravy something that goes on mashed potatoes.
What do you call it.Maybe @LadyDuck can help us on this.
Have a good one.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
9 Sep 16
my grannie used to say that 'gravy's got flour'n 't, sauces don't'. but then 'gain, she t'was mountain folk. i believe such depends'n where one grew'p, the cultures that they 'came accustomed to.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
9 Sep 16
Gravey was and always will be flour and some kind of fat....nothing to do with mountain folk, or rednecks, or yankess...it's universal.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
9 Sep 16
@crazyhorseladycx yep the culture.I need to get more information on this
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
9 Sep 16
Tomato gravy I can tell you how to make, I am sure its a southern thang, Tomato sauce is just something for pasta etc. Gravy is flour base rue or corn starch thickened broth. But what do I know? I am in the USA and I am Irish 
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@suziecat7 (3350)
• Asheville, North Carolina
9 Sep 16
I call it sauce but have heard it called gravy in the mountains here.
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@jstory07 (139717)
• Roseburg, Oregon
9 Sep 16
Sause goes over pasta and gravy goes over potatoes and some meat dishes.
@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
9 Sep 16
We have tomato sauce and we have gravy as well, which is brown. It used to be made browning flour in a little fat then adding hot water. Nowadays you can buy it in a powdered form and just add boiling water.
@AutumnSnow (4583)
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8 Sep 16
I guess it all depends on where you are from and your culture on what you call it. I've always known as tomato sauce.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
9 Sep 16
@AutumnSnow yes,I still have not the answer why the Italians call it gravy
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@meowch (2220)
• United States
8 Sep 16
Gravy is something you put on potatoes and sauce is tomato sauce that's all I know.
@snowy22315 (180724)
• United States
11 Sep 16
Yeah, my Aunt is Italian and she called sauce,,,so I think those that call it gravy are in the minority actually.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Sep 16
hi amadeo I call it tomato sauce and if it goes on mashed potatoes anis brown I also call it gravy
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Sep 16
I never heard before that it was called gravy by some. I'm with you on that one.
@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
10 Sep 16
It's important if it's sauce or gravy. As long as it's very delicious, I will be happy about it. But I think it's a sauce.
@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
8 Sep 16
For me tomato would be tomato sauce and gravy would be what you put on potatoes.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
8 Sep 16
@Happpy2BeMe.yes,but they still argue over this.silly
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@Cmackk (253)
• Cleveland, Ohio
8 Sep 16
Gravy is something u put on potatos sauce u put on noodles lol I don't really know but thats what I grew up too not sure bout anyone else
