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.

Send all your unwanted gravy here
Thanks

I like gravy an appropriate amount - on roast dinners and toad in the hole. And KFC gravy.

Hold on just a second....the OP mentioned upthread she doesn't mind sauce and errrr jus. Jus is gravy, they just call it jus to be posh (my DH calls it jizz when being forced to watch Masterlittlechef).

Nope, jus like a plum sauce with, say, duck in a smear on the plate is what I mean.

Sorry for saying smear.

@drinkswineoutofamug

For the name and chips cheese and gravy comment - hi5 sister from another mister

I used to hate gravy too.

I'd have my roasts dry.

But then I discovered good not bisto gravy.

Proper gravy made from the meat does taste good.

Bloody love gravy. My mum and grandma are both masters of the delicious gravy. We have gallons of the stuff in our family, we are all gravy lovers.

Garvy is fabulous! It's the only reason I ever do a roast.

I keep any leftover gravy (near much, alas!) and heat it up and make extra yorkshires to dip in it and sit and scoff them. It has to be real gravy though - made with the fat off a roast. Not that muck out of jars I'd rather eat a dry dinner

Now I want gravy . . . mmmmmmmmmmmm and we're stuck with bastarding pasta tonight and now I don't want it

Kids hate gravy, we love gravy.

Otherwise it’s a bit dry. I like a moderate amount, DH likes to drown his dinner in it and always asked if there’s any more going.

Oooo, yes, KFC gravy!

I am so with you op. I personally think it is because most roast dinners are a bit dry.

As a child my mum made roast dinners every week and we never had gravy on the table, ever. Her roasts were delicious. Meat always moist and tender. I find the vast majority of gravies horrible. Some are just about ok in very small quantities dribbled sparingly on just the meat but they must be very thin (almost like stock). Any gravy that is thickened just ruins a roast dinner for me

Because it's delicious....cottage pie made with browned mince and onions then cooked in the slow cooker and then made the next day with fresh mash and grated cheese sitting on top of lovely, thick gravy.

*GRAVY is fabulous - not garvy

How else will we get inappropriate levels of salt?

Yes to the poster saying crispy is nice. Roast potatoes and chips just go soggy with gravy on and I just don't like it.

I am offended that you don't like gravy are you southern by any chance OP?

Just in case this offends any southerners...I am clearly joking

I need to know what you are using instead to wet ur dinner instead of the gravy?! Pies need something saucy on top!!

I'm from Nottingham, me duck - in the great East Midlands.

A land awash with gravy consumers, unfortunately.

Hmm well the plot thickens then! I just thought all northerners were born with a love of gravy!

"Using to wet your dinner"

This is what baffles me, why it is necessary to have a "wet dinner." My crusty pie has a sprinkle of salt on top. Tonight's pie has steak with a sauce. I've had pies before which are a lot drier and packed with meat - and they are nicer imho.

I love having so much gravy that it makes my Sunday roast soggy

Not a northerner though.

DS has been known to slop gravy in spaghetti (school canteen). He says its lovely!

I hate gravy, it ruins a meal.

Over time I have come to accommodate a very small quantity of homemade gravy dribbled on the meat only. But that's it. And TBH I could live without it.

A roast done properly shouldn't be dry and the meat and veg should be flavourful without it.

I am still traumatized by a meal at MIL's where she drowned everything in a sea of Bisto to cover up the dried up roast and disintegrating overboiled veg I stared at the carpet the whole way through to avoid retching.

I even hate the word gravy.

Whoever thinks that cheese or gravy goes on chips has got a serious design fault. Salt, pepper, vinegar/mayo is what you need on chips.

Gravy goes on roasts (in my case only the meat and possibly veg). Nice homemade onion gravy (very thick and gloopy) sometimes accompanies sausages. Pies are eaten naked as their gravy is within!

I hate gravy too, and did even when I used to eat meat. I think I generally run to liking my food quite dry, though. I really noticed this with Jamie Oliver pasta recipes - he seems to have a real horror of the idea that it might become 'stodgy' if it's not swimming in sauce, but I'd take 'stodgy' over 'sloppy' any day. I also hate ketchup, mayonnaise and most other sauces people add to food!