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Question for the Italian girls.............

Original post by mlp924

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Does your mom make 'Sauce' or 'Gravy'?

MegLehner Thread views: 1,984

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gravy & macaroni

nylisa Thread views: 1,984

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Posted by KarenK122

We call it gravy if its with meat, like meatballs or sausage and sauce if its a plain marinara

Karen, us too.

The Original 2nd-time-around Thread views: 1,984

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Posted by StayandJohn

We say sauce
and its macaroni
I hate calling it pasta
it sounds so yuppy like lol

Sounds like we have more in common than our names!!
Same here!

boosh78201 Thread views: 1,984

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Meg, you have FM

HappyLady05 Thread views: 1,984

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I'm all italian...my parents say sauce and macaroni. My grandparents say gravy. My grandparents don't really say macaroni, they call the macaroni whatever the italian name for it is.

Jan05Bride Thread views: 1,984

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My family says SAUCE
FH's family says GRAVY

It's very confusing - I have to remember who's family I'm with!

verdila Thread views: 1,984

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I am all Italian and I say sauce and macaroni. I started saying pasta sometimes to my non-italian friends because people thought I was referring to kraft mac and cheese ...haha.

My paternal grandma used to call sauce with meat-- gravy.

ETA: we were always 3:00 sunday dinner Italians growing up.... Gramps would bring the Italian bread from Queens and some fruit or nuts. My mom's side is off the boat from Naples, Dad's is Sicilian.

VickiC Thread views: 1,984

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We say both actually. It's more gravy and macaroni though.

DH's family says sauce and pasta more.

My family is from Naples/Rome.
DH's family is from Sicily.

WinterBride2005 Thread views: 1,984

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100% Italian here too. Both parent's from Naples. We say sauce and macaroni.
The word for sauce in Italian is salsa sp? (DIALECT) which means sauce. In dialect- neopolitan- macarun sp? means macaroni.

So on Sunday, we eat macaroni with sauce.

If we are having someting other than macaroni know to us as, ziti, penne, or rigatoni, we specify the type of pasta it is.. like spaghetti or fusilli.

Leelee Thread views: 1,984

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DH is Italian and they say gravy...
We've spent a good amount of time in Italy..it's not an Italian thing as much as it's a Brooklyn-Italian thing!

StayandJohn Thread views: 1,984

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Posted by The Original 2nd-time-around

Posted by StayandJohn

We say sauce
and its macaroni
I hate calling it pasta
it sounds so yuppy like lol

Sounds like we have more in common than our names!!
Same here!

BMD'sPeanut Thread views: 1,984

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Posted by Leelee

DH is Italian and they say gravy...
We've spent a good amount of time in Italy..it's not an Italian thing as much as it's a Brooklyn-Italian thing!

It's so true.
Most 'Italian' things are American versions of Italian things and not even close to how they are in Italy.

swags1016 Thread views: 1,984

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Gravy

WinterBride2005 Thread views: 1,984

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Posted by CIMINOK

Posted by Leelee

DH is Italian and they say gravy...
We've spent a good amount of time in Italy..it's not an Italian thing as much as it's a Brooklyn-Italian thing!

It's so true.
Most 'Italian' things are American versions of Italian things and not even close to how they are in Italy.

Yes!!!!

anjer4 Thread views: 1,984

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she makes sauce and she says 'Manga' lol

BellaBella Thread views: 1,984

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Posted by WinterBride2005

100% Italian here too. Both parent's from Naples. We say sauce and macaroni.
So on Sunday, we eat macaroni with sauce.

If we are having someting other than macaroni know to us as, ziti, penne, or rigatoni, we specify the type of pasta it is.. like spaghetti or fusilli.

LOL same here. only we are 75% Italian ;)
Only my gramma calls it gravy and it's funny how my mom is always correcting her..