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.

Stop concerning yourself with what other people are doing/eating. No-one is forcing you to have it.

Also gravy is the best, I bet you're from the south. I could drink a jug of bisto.

I hate gravy too OP. Yuk. Who wants to ruin dinner like that.

Gravy is okay. But I like to be strictly in control of it. Pour some on (over the meat and possibly the corner of the mash). Eat. Then pour a bit more. I hate a pub Sunday dinner which drowns your whole meal in sloppy brown water. 😡

I am a fellow ‘custard on the side’ person as well. Do the two go together?

I hate a pub Sunday dinner which drowns your whole meal in sloppy brown water.

I would agree - but that is NOT GRAVY!

A pub thing I hate is a giant yorkshire pudding the size of a plate with the dinner inside it. What the actual FUCK?!?!?!?!

I have never eaten one, but i have seen other people hoovering them into their mouths. It is DISGUSTING!

I like a bit of gravy On the meat and maybe mashed potatoes of a roast dinner but need my Yorkshire pudding and roast potatoes dry. I have a little side plate for my Yorkshire pudding.

Catnap, I bet you haven't RTFT I'm from Nottingham, which is definitely not the south.

Quite life affirming to see so many people also don't like gravy.

Nobody has given me a really good explanation about why they love gravy. Apart from saying "ooh I love gravy."

PuppyMonkey, you are so right about gravy and also custard.* Who wants a soggy dinner or pudding? Horrible. The worst thing though, surely, has to be bread and butter pudding. Boak.*

My dd3 and dsd2 both hate gravy

I can't make gravy, I don't know how, bisto best beef is the dogs bollocking

Ffs dogs bollocks

No one would like to see my roast dinner. Soooo much gravy but the proper stuff. Poured. Then added. Then added again. And again.

What's with the gravy granules nonsense? Never used it. I do it the proper way and it's divine

Wasn't there a singer that couldn't stand gravy? K.D.Lang?

I love good gravy and wouldn't eat a roast without it.

Do all you gravy haters deprive your guests of gravy or will you make it so they can help themselves if they want?

Because it's the food of the Gods.

I believe almost everything tastes better with gravy, and the few things that don't, well they taste better with custard instead

I can literally have a mug of gravy on its own, which I often do lol.

I always make gravy for others because, inexplicable as it is to me, I do know that others love it!

A genuine question: do all the people who find a lot of meals are dry without a lot of added sauce drink (either soft drinks or alcohol) with their food? I was thinking that I just very rarely find a meal over dry, but I do drink a lot of fluid when I eat.

Olivia, don't worry, in our house DP makes gravy for himself and anyone else who wants it, inc guests. I don't get involved.

Gosh,I squeeze every bit of stock out of my meat,add a bit of the water the vegetables were steamed in then make an incredible gravy that I completely soak all of my veg and meat with.i then add a puddle of gravy on the free bit of plate,then place the potatoes and Yorkshire’s on top(so they stay crispy and don’t get too soggy) but I do dip these bits in the gravy.
I cannot imagine having a roast without a lot of gravy.it must be sooooooooo dry!

I used to hate gravy because it made my food touch (could not stand things like that as a kid).
Then I realised it was basically liquid salt. I love salt.

I’m with you OP, can’t stand the stuff. Why ruin a perfectly good roast dinner by adding gravy?
It messes with my mixing liquid and solids issue... Baked beans should be segregated in their own little pot.

Can’t stand custard either. Or pie.

Don’t think I’m a proper Northerner

YABU. Gravy is amazing!

Nottingham is not the north though is it.

It is from London.

Nottingham isn't North. Its just the wrong side of the Midlands.

Still craving chips, cheese and gravy

A genuine question: do all the people who find a lot of meals are dry without a lot of added sauce drink (either soft drinks or alcohol) with their food? I was thinking that I just very rarely find a meal over dry, but I do drink a lot of fluid when I eat

Nope. Just gravy! Although I have been known to forego gravy if I make cauli cheese with lots of cheese sauce, like we are having toay -
mustard mash, steak and ale pie, cauli cheese but I'm know thinking I actually might knock up some onion gravy. But never not on a roast, always gravy and we fight over who gets to the gravy boat first. I solved that with getting another one so fill two. Will admit DH isn't so prolific with the stuff as me and the kids.

Snotato I do identical except for one tweak. I fill the yorkshires with gravy. Heaven is when I cut into them