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MySmallWorldof4

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In what world??? I've been all over the world for the last 73 years and this is the absolute first time I have ever heard spaghetti sauce referred to as Sunday gravy. Hell, for at least 30 years, in the middle of all that, Wednesday's were considered Prince Spaghetti Day. What would that have to do with Sunday? I don't know, maybe I didn't get the memo. I've even lived down here in the south where they have a penchant for naming thing like they were all insane, yet no mention of Sunday Gravy.

I even worked with a guy back in the 60's that was 140% Italian and he gave me a recipe for Spaghetti Sauce (note not Sunday Gravy) that had everything including the kitchen sink in it and it took a full 12 hours of simmering to make. Required imported from Italy whole tomatoes. tomato paste, pork chops, homemade Italian sausage and to many herbs and spices to even remember. When my wife left she took the recipe with her and probably decided that slip of paper was taking up to much room in her 3X5 card file. We can't find it in stuff that she left behind so we have to assume she tossed it away. That recipe makes the rest of you look like people opening up a can of spaghetti-O's. Sunday Gravy, indeed! Was that something that Gen X came up with. 🍝👍😉🤓

In the south Sunday Gravy could easily be Sausage Gravy which is a staple here along with biscuits. I wonder if someone heard the name Sausage Gravy and thought they said Sunday Gravy. Still doesn't fit in but at least it provides an otherwise unexplainable reason.
Maybe it is more of a NY, NJ thing.🤷‍♀️
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
Maybe they took the meat out? They just used the meat juices? Gravy has to have meat of some sort in it.

it was a red sauce at Trattoria , it was the standard sauce they use there. This is a zoomed in shot of it on my Italian omelette. No matter what they called it, the sauce was tasty. The next time I got the omelette I asked for extra but I didn’t take a picture of it that time. 🙂

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Cesar R M

Well-Known Member
Speaking of interesting things related to pasta and Italy.

I find it very curious that Italians food aficionados demand that their dishes be done with proper tomatoes from Italy.
What puzzles me is that tomatoes did not exist in Europe. They were taken from the new world and imported there.
Is there really that much change in shape, flavor and texture on these mere 500 years(or less?) of tomato cultivation in italy ?

I noticed in online photos that the italian ones have more streaks and coarser texture. Reminding me of bell peppers in some cases.
While Mexican tomatoes are very round for the ball version and the plum ones (saladette) are more enlarged.

Rounded ones have less flavor than the smaller ones, but the larger ones are easier to cook.
 

Figgy1

Well-Known Member
it was a red sauce at Trattoria , it was the standard sauce they use there. This is a zoomed in shot of it on my Italian omelette. No matter what they called it, the sauce was tasty. The next time I got the omelette I asked for extra but I didn’t take a picture of it that time. 🙂

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That's a sauce. It may have been a very good sauce but it's not gravy ;)
 

Tony the Tigger

Well-Known Member
Speaking of interesting things related to pasta and Italy.

I find it very curious that Italians food aficionados demand that their dishes be done with proper tomatoes from Italy.
What puzzles me is that tomatoes did not exist in Europe. They were taken from the new world and imported there.
Is there really that much change in shape, flavor and texture on these mere 500 years(or less?) of tomato cultivation in italy ?

I noticed in online photos that the italian ones have more streaks and coarser texture. Reminding me of bell peppers in some cases.
While Mexican tomatoes are very round for the ball version and the plum ones (saladette) are more enlarged.

Rounded ones have less flavor than the smaller ones, but the larger ones are easier to cook.
Plum/Roma are the ones to cook for gravy.
 

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
The Shoprites up here are quite nice, not Wegman's nice but still nice
Ours is AWFUL. The aisles are narrow so there's constantly a traffic jam. I absolutely loathe the lighting in there. The parking lot layout is confusing, and it's on an incline, so when you're putting groceries in your cart, your shopping cart tries to run away from you. The prices are usually higher than the Safeway nearby; they don't run nearly as many sales. And the checkouts...lord, the checkouts. You're lucky if they open a regular checkout line; usually it's self checkout, and those self checkouts are the absolute worst. Seriously, I went in there today, and there was one checkout lane available. The self chexkouts were free, but there was one person using it and five people in line for the regular checkout. No one was using that thing. They eventually opened another self checkout.

I only go in there for their produce department. If they didn't have markedly better avocados than Safeway, I would never set foot in the place.
 

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