Why do people like gravy so much?

[PuppyMonkey]

I'm the only person in Britain who doesn't like gravy, I reckon.

It makes everything on the plate soggy, tasting of brown gravy.

I'm having steak pies today, made with a rich sauce inside and nice crumbly shortcrust pastry. And I just know that DP and kids will insist in having gravy too. Making the crumbly pastry all soggy and gloopy and everything taste of wet.

Also ruins Yorkshire puddings and Sunday dinner.

I don't get it.

I don't like yorkshire pudding either, unless it is made very fresh and is very light. In restaurants and pubs I always give move to my DP.

I love love love gravy, especially made with wine, but each time I was pregnant I couldn't bear the stuff - v weird. But not on top of pies, just round the edges. Anyone who doesn't like it is an alien. So there.

See, some people seem almost offended by me not liking the stuff. Bisto, home made, not a joy of difference between them - just tastes of brown stuff and makes everything on the plate taste the same.

Glad to see there are some who also hate it.

What HurtyTeeth said : "Homemade gravy is lush when made with the meat juices and those sticky bits at the bottom of the roasting tray. No bisto can hold a candle to it."

But surely gravy should be served up in a big (communal) gravy boat - so people can pour as much, or as little or not at all onto their own food?

Because gravy is the elixir of life.

I loves onion gravy, I do. Plus any other sauce. I don't eat meat but at Christmas I love all the sauces and pickles.

I like being an alien.

Any kind of gravy ruins dinner.

I put lots of effort into making crispy yorkshires and roasties, and people soggify them with wet brown. ( Not in our immediate family, but other visitors).

I like pies with a little bit of sauce in them. Different from gravy, unless the pie inside has loads.

A French friend of mine wanted to sample English Christmas cuisine. So I dutifully sent her some Christmas pudding.

She rang me up and said it tasted really odd. And I said ‘well it’s an acquired taste, many British don’t like it.’

She replied ‘Its not the pudding in itself, it just doesn’t taste very nice with the gravy’.

She thought it was like Yorkshire pudding

My mum thought gravy was the work of the devil, so we never, ever had it, growing up, and as a result, I am with @PuppyMonkey and others - I just don’t get the appeal of gravy at all. I do make it (from home made stock) at Christmas, and will have a little bit then, but I cannot see the point in drowning everything in gravy made from granules - it’ll just make everything taste of Bisto (other gravy granules are available).

And I like crispy things - like Yorkshire puddings, crispy roast potatoes and, in the OP’s example, pastry, to stay crispy - I love crispy things and if I have gone to the effort of making something deliciously crispy, I am not going to make it soggy with gravy.

Why is it always extreme choices on MN? No gravy or people 'drowning' their food in it. Most people like a bit of gravy.

Tatiana

Oh I feel a bit ill just thinking about it.

Mmm love gravy esp on chips. Or over mash.gravy completes a dinner

My kids would eat shoe leather and cardboard if it has gravy on it.

But I agree with pp that the gravy haters are probably thinking that Bisto is gravy. It isn't. It is brown salty shite.

I love gravy, when I was pregnant I'd have gravy with anything and used to drink cups of it. I also had a thing for Mars bars dipped in gravy but that was only during one pregnancy. Home made roast beef gravy is best, but I'll eat pretty much any!

Lol,that’s the bizzarest craving ive ever heard.mars bar dipped in gravy

It's honestly not just Bisto that's at fault. All gravy is yuck to the haters, please believe us.

Make my own gravy,and freeze it.sometimes I get such a hankering I defrost and eat with buttered bread

DS hates gravy. I am considering putting him up for adoption because of this. Can he come and live with you OP? He is 11, will not eat anything that looks like gravy. He will eat endless pasta, without sauce, will just about agree to a chicken pie, as long as it is white sauce, no mushrooms.

If all else fails sausage, bacon and chips are a winner.

It had to be fun size mars bars, but I absolutely loved it, was quite embarrassed when my husband caught me eating it at breakfast time!

All gravy is shite.
Ive tried meat, red wine, onion, bisto, my mums, my nans, all sorts.

It’s all rank.

I like gravy on a roast meal, and on green veg. Not on anything else though.

No problem Mamma, he has a place here with me.

I like a decent gravy on green veg and carrots. My roasties, Yorkshires and Parsnips need to be gravy-less though so they stay crispy. However, a crispy roastie dipped fleetingly in a meat fuelled gravy is the food of the gods.