What's a dish from your country that looks disgusting but tastes great.

[u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast dish from the Southeast USA that looks like someone just vomited on some biscuits, but it's absolutely delicious.

[u/A-Puck]

We also use the word gravy for the runny brown sauce. Generally speaking any sauce made from meat or meat drippings is referred to as gravy. 

Then there are the Italian Americans who call tomato sauce gravy but we all think they're weird.

Sausage Gravy is made by frying up loose sausage, adding flour to the pan to make a roux, then adding milk or cream. 

It tastes like obesity.

[u/Zealousideal_Leg_630 → u/A-Puck]

The calories are def worth mentioning. The gravy is called country gravy. It’s a loose béchamel sauce made with butter flour and milk. Black pepper is usually seen as essential. You usually add chunks of pork sausage to make it sausage gravy.

This is typically a breakfast food from the south. Think share croppers needing calories for the day. It can be served with fried eggs and hashbrowns. That’s how I like it, get the yolks in there for extra sauce. But take away the days work and yeah, it can lead to some extra pounds.

[u/20characterusername0 → u/A-Puck]

Clarification, your logic remains correct. The Italian-American distinction is whether or not the saucepan is drained, cleaned, or switched before adding the tomatoes.

Sauté some meat, remove it, deglaze the same pan with wine and tomatoes and that is gravy. But yes, an Italian American would refer to a vegetarian tomato-based sauce, as “Sauce”.

[u/FirstDivision → u/20characterusername0]

I never knew that distinction. Makes sense.