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Question for the Italian girls.............
Does your mom make 'Sauce' or 'Gravy'?
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I am not Italian, but am marrying one, and everyone in his family calls it sauce. My FH HATES when people call it gravy...
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I'm not Italian but my FH is and he says his mom makes sauce.
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Sauce!
AND...my FH and I were just talking about this the other night...when you make some kind of pasta, do you call it pasta or macaroni?
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My family says sauce, DH's family says gravy.
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Sauce
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My dad's side is sauce. Dh's side says gravy. Isn't there a difference between Northern and Southern?
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I am Italian and my family says sauce and macaroni not pasta.
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Posted by The Original 2nd-time-around
Sauce!
AND...my FH and I were just talking about this the other night...when you make some kind of pasta, do you call it pasta or macaroni?
His family says pasta also
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Posted by Valentinegirl
My family says sauce, DH's family says gravy.
are you guys both italian?
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Pasta...
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I think my mom switches. When I was growing up, it was gravy, but I have heard my mom say sauce too
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i think it's a very individual thing.
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My house it is sauce.. Gravy is brown and goes on meatloft or a roast or soemthing.
And it is always referred to in my house as spagetti and meatballs. No matter what kinda pasta is used.
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And macaroni when I was a kid, now we say pasta.
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Posted by CIMINOK
Posted by Valentinegirl
My family says sauce, DH's family says gravy.
are you guys both italian?
Yup. He is 100% Italian...I am 1/2 Italian, 1/2 German.
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We say sauce
and its macaroni
I hate calling it pasta
it sounds so yuppy like lol
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Posted by StayandJohn
We say sauce
and its macaroni
I hate calling it pasta
it sounds so yuppy like lol
I was just thinking the same thing about pasta sounding yuppyish!!
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We call it gravy if its with meat, like meatballs or sausage and sauce if its a plain marinara