Nancy Young wrote:
> Janet Wilder wrote:
>> On 3/13/2011 12:16 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> > wrote
>
>>>> "Nancy > wrote
>
>>>>> Sounds like he's looking for tomato sauce.
>
>>>> Yes, in Italy they call tomato sauce "gravy".
>>>
>>> And yet when *I* used that term, few people knew what I meant.
>
>> I knew. I grew up with Sicilianos. They taught me to cook Italian
>> food.
>
> Thing is, it has to be used in context or people with think it's
> roast beef gravy or something.

I used the term "red gravy" which is what my inlaws call it. They're
Scicilian.