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gravy is homosexualRoast]]". British gravy is renowned for its thickness. Gravy is an integral part of the Canadian dish poutine.

In many parts of Asia, particularly India, Malaysia and Singapore, the word "gravy" is used to refer to any thickened liquid part of a dish. For example, the liquid part of a thick curry may be referred to as gravy.

  • In the sense of "absolutely fabulous, superb, excellent," see Raymond Carver's poem "Gravy" in the final section of A New Path to the Waterfall.
  • British rap artist MC Romeo released a single called "It's All Gravy" with Christina Milian in November 2002
  • Wavy Gravy is a peace activist and hippie clown associated with The Grateful Dead
  • Ten films appear on the Internet Movie Database with the word gravy in them. These are: Gravy (1916), Watery Gravy (1927), Pass the Gravy (1989), Brown Gravy (1914), Laughing Gravy (1931), The Gravy Train (1974), The Gravy Train (1990), The Gravy Train Goes East (1991), One Foot in the Gravy (2001), Groovy Gravy: Making the Scene in 'A Guy Thing' (2006)[1]
  • According to the UK football show Soccer AM "Northern boys love gravy" [2]
  • One of the Title characters of the cartoon show Ed, Edd n Eddy, Ed, has the catch phrase "Gravy!" which he spouts out even at the most innapropriate of times (which is very, very often on the show). This was parodied in one episode where Double-D mimiced Ed by saying 'Gravy' a lot and acting imbicilic. Ed replied, "Oh come on, Double-D, I don't say 'Gravy' all the time."
  • See also the idiom "gravy train", used to refer to any lucrative endeavour.
  • Grogan's House of Gravy, a skit in Blue Collar TV, in which Jeff Foxworthy operates a gravy resturant and throws gravy balls (water baloons filled with gravy) at the elderly
  • "Lumpy Gravy", the album by Frank Zappa
  • The Macc Lads wrote a song called "Beer and Sex And Chips And Gravy", since Chips and Gravy Is Eaten Most By Macc Lads, The Song Is Used To DemonstrATE This
  • More recently, in African-American neighborhoods, gravy is slang for an attractive female.
  • Also used as slang for extra benefits in the idiom "everything else is gravy"
  • On the HBO Television show The Sopranos, many family members refer to pasta sauce as gravy.

See also

Look up gravy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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