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 do remember having a spanish exchange girl who was horrified by gravy. She kept saying in English 'it is not salsa, WHAT IS IT?'. My DH explained in spanish it was 'meat juice'. She got very dramatic at that point

YANBU. It's gross - it makes everything soggy and it makes it all taste the same. You might as well just have a bowl of lumpy broth!

This says it all.......

I've never claimed Nottingham is in the north - but I can categorically confirm it isn't in the south either. There's this weird thing everyone forgets about called "The East Midlands."

Which is definitely not the West Midlands either, just to be clear.

Feels another thread coming on.

Sometimes on here I feel the only one who uses bisto!

I use bisto too den. Bisto Best though, so I consider it rather posh.

I fill the yorkshires with gravy. Heaven is when I cut into them

Yes to this!!!!!

@PuppyMonkey

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.

Good to know

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

I do drink with meals but I hate food with no sauce. Liked boiled potatoes with nothing on them at all, Yuk!

OP: no gravy, no custard.......how do you feel about soup? or curry, or stew?

I'm not the OP, but I am a fellow gravy and custard hater, but love soup, curry and stew. Basically I'm fine with food that 'should' be wet, but adding wet over the top of dry food grosses me out a bit.

looked - I like soups, curries of a quite dry consistency and a wide variety of stews.

I can accept the above as specific meals which I have from time to time.

I just don't like the same horrid gloopy brown gravy covering every single bloody meal that ever gets cooked, like most British people do (although glad to see so many others on this thread feel the same as me).

Yes Lisa has it!

OP you are making this very black and white, us gravy lovers don't cover every meal with gravy! There is a middle ground, I like gravy with a roast and sausage and mash that's about it! But if I'm making for instance beouf bourginon casserole, I love the sauce in it! But I wouldn't be making gravy to go with fish and chips or many other meals we eat

How about on top of a crusty steak pie Rousette? That's how this debate started for me.

And therein lies the difference.
I find a roast dinner or certain pies too dry without gravy.
Ditto apple crumble or steamed puddings.They need some custard to moisten them up.
It's very important that people are able to serve themselves so that the gravy or custard is just the right amount and, equally important, poured over or around the right things.

Mine don't swim in it. I can't bear things if they've changed their texture because of it like mashed potato bleughh!! So definitely yes to gravy but put on at the last minute and not on everything and not left to soak!!

Ds won't have gravy then moans he doesn't like a roast. Grrrr!

the difference being whether people like their meals wet or dry or somewhere inbetween.

I think even worse than covering a roast dinner in gravy is when people put it on chips. That is so very wrong. Chips are meant to be hot and crispy, not soggy. And I always think with gravy all over a dinner, it soon goes cold spread out flat over the plate and why would anyone want cold wet goo all over their food? Yuck.

Puppy I get why people would but it's our lunch today and no, I have mustard mash and cauliflower cheese because that means the mash is tasty on its own and the cauli cheese has sauce!

Yes. I like to put my own on. Had a pub lunch a while ago. Gorgeous roast pork inc crackling but they served it in one big pile 😞 Mashed potato at the bottom. Gravy all over. I gave the potato to the dog!! Now he loves gravy on anything!!

Chips and gravy is beyond me to be honest. And I'm a gravy lover!

One of my DBS and one of my DC hate gravy, DC said it's disgusting covering all that nice food with horrible salty gravy.

I couldn't eat a Sunday dinner without gravy.

Currently in McDonald's - no gravy in sight here.

Gravy is amazing, especially with chips. You can’t have roast potatoes without it otherwise they just taste dry and wrong.