Serene Vannoy wrote:

>> If the meat in the sauce is served separately then it's gravy.
>> If the meat is an integral part of the sauce and is not separated
>> out or served separately then it's sauce.

> It's a regional thing. My east-coast relatives, some of them call it
> "red gravy" (my mom's half Italian). *shrug* There's no sense holding
> the line on an imaginary rule about language.

There's a lot of sense in trying to undesrtand what a word means somewhere
else.
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ViLco
Let the liquor do the thinking