In article >,
"W. Baker" > wrote:

> RodS > wrote:
> : On 24/07/2011 1:25 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> : >
> : > I don't usually get food cravings although oddly today I was craving
> : > biscuits with sausage gravy
>
> : I have no idea what biscuits and sausage gravy are.
>
> : Tim Tams and pureed sausage ?
>
>
> : and I don't know why. Those are something I
> : > very rarely eat! But if I am going to have a craving it's not necessarily
> : > for a salty food but a crunchy one. Granted a lot of the crunchy foods I
> : > might eat are salty.
> : --
> : (- -)
> : =m=(_)=m=
> : RodS T2
> : Australia
>
> In American English "biscuits" are similaar to unsweetened scones, not
> what we call "cookies," and other English speakers call "biscuits." I
> have no idea about sausage gravy as I have never seen, nor had it. I
> don't know if it is a gravy made from sausages or one that you put on
> sausages.

It's a southern thing. It's a white gravy, fairly thick, with crumbles
of breakfast sausage in it. Primary ingredients, aside from the sausage,
would be flour and milk.

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