# Biscuits and Gravy for breakfast - you want some? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817 "2012-09-06T01:05:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/81 "2012-09-07T00:50:41Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I grew up in Wisconsin, and had never even heard of biscuits and gravy until I was an adult. Odd, because I first had it at a place just outside of Wisconsin Dells. Is Paul Bunyan’s (“Home of the LUMBERJACK Breakfast!”) still there? There was another place in Sawyer that had a similar menu. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/82 "2012-09-07T02:55:46Z")
Ugh. Flour and grease over bread, no thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/83 "2012-09-07T03:07:24Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, man, when I was a kid and my parents made beef stew (more like a braised beef, really), my favorite part was dipping the bread into the drippings, letting it completely saturate, sprinkling a bit of salt on top, and eating it. When all the beef was gone, I would insist on getting the covered roaster pan and tearing up bits and pieces of rye bread to throw in there and eat with a fork after they’d soaked up all the meaty goodness. I got chewed out like you wouldn’t believe for doing this as a kid. My dad’s family thought “pan wiping” was the trashiest thing you could do. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/84 "2012-09-07T05:50:53Z")
Actually, it’s called “soppin’.” (Here. You need another biscuit to sop up all that gravy.) ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/85 "2012-09-07T07:39:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A man would rather marry a woman who makes biscuits and gravy than a thin woman. Go for it. Ah, but less money spent on altering the purchased gown means more money for sausage and bacon and good half-and-half later. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/86 "2012-09-07T08:40:01Z")
Holy nine ultraviolet hells, I’d forgotten about B&G. Here in the land of ice and snow I have no choice but to make it myself from scratch; I’d best get to larnin’! Hungry as hell for a big old helping now… ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/87 "2012-09-07T12:50:49Z")
If I could eat it :(. Stupid intestine! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/88 "2012-09-07T14:22:05Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Ugh. Flour and grease over bread, no thanks. I’m assuming you feel the same way about mashed potatoes and gravy? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/89 "2012-09-07T14:44:09Z")
Never been a fan. Biscuits that need gravy aren’t worth eating, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/90 "2012-09-07T15:17:19Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I grew up in Wisconsin, and had never even heard of biscuits and gravy until I was an adult. Started having it at various restaurants (notably Bob Evans and Cracker Barrel), and fell in love with it (though a lot of restaurants will make piss-poor versions of it). My wife makes it occasionally – she uses Jimmy Dean sausage, and half-and-half, and it’s to die for. > > I have some good friends who moved to the States from Ireland. When they first heard of “biscuits and gravy”, their minds boggled, as they pictured cookies (which, of course, are called “biscuits” in the British Isles), covered with brown beef gravy. 😃 Yeah boggled my mind the first few times I saw it advertised over there. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/91 "2012-09-07T15:30:25Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > A man would rather marry a woman who makes biscuits and gravy than a thin woman. Go for it. I would like to have that man’s phone number, please. 'Cause he’s not on any of the dating sites. Those guys all want “thin to athletic” women. Maybe I should put “Can make biscuits and gravy” in my profile. ---
**Author:** ![rosaclinic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/51bf81/32.png) [@rosaclinic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rosaclinic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/92 "2012-09-07T15:32:58Z")
Not at all. i take a mug of cold coffee and boiled egg ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/93 "2012-09-07T15:53:34Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > I find that biscuits and “gravy” at restaurants (and particularly at fast food restaurants) frequently tastes bland and pasty. This is what happens when you don’t start with enough grease. You wind up with a repulsive milk-and-flour paste. > > For those of you who have tried biscuits and gravy and don’t like it, I humbly suggest this might be the reason, and I urge you to try the home-made version if you ever get the chance. I might try making biscuits and gravy at home if I didn’t have easy access to butter and sausages with casings. But as it is, if I want a delicious greasy coating on my biscuits, I can put butter on them. And if I want the delicious taste of sausage grease, I can eat a sausage with a casing that keeps the grease sealed inside. That leaves the above-mentioned library paste components, which I prefer to do without. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/94 "2012-09-07T15:57:54Z")
I could eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and actually have). One of my favorite things in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/95 "2012-09-07T16:08:55Z")
Hell yeah I want some! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/96 "2012-09-07T16:16:33Z")
I have had it in Southern resturants where it was heavenly, and Northern ones where it was inedible. I’ve had it at truckstops in the middle of nowhere that it was absolutely a plate of ambrosia! These days I make it at home, mostly. But it’s pretty much a weekend breakfast, as you’ll need some couch-time afterwards. Not to hijack, but has anyone else noticed the similiarity of B&G with the old military standby SOS? Shit on a shingle, or more politely, creamed chipped beef on toast probably goes back to the revolutionary war. And for the record, yup; I may have to make this (B&G) this weekend! Thanks for the great memories OP. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/97 "2012-09-07T16:21:28Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Never been a fan. Biscuits that need gravy aren’t worth eating, IMHO. It’s not that they need gravy. The biscuit is merely a vehicle for the sausage gravy, much like a bun is a vehicle for a burger and fixin’s. And really, what IS a biscuit? I would submit that it’s little more than a browned dumpling, yet few people object to dumplings in their stew. My biscuits are so light and flaky I’ve actually hesitated to put gravy over them, but gluttony always sets in. As a side note, my father used to put gravy on his pancakes, much to the horror and disgust of my mother. His reply was always: Who’s eatin’ this, you or me? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/98 "2012-09-07T16:53:42Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > My biscuits are so light and flaky… Yankees :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/99 "2012-09-07T18:09:59Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Odd, because I first had it at a place just outside of Wisconsin Dells. Is Paul Bunyan’s (“Home of the LUMBERJACK Breakfast!”) still there? There was another place in Sawyer that had a similar menu. It is, indeed. However, as a kid, I only went to the Dells once, and we didn’t eat at Paul Bunyan’s. I think that biscuits & gravy were originally more of a Southern dish; they seem to be more broadly available these days, but, at least when I was a kid in the 1970s, they were pretty alien in Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817/100 "2012-09-07T18:50:13Z")
I’d never had this nor seen it until I was 18 and we went on a class trip to Disney World. We went to some cowboy park for breakfast and it was on the menu. I was enamored! Since then I’ve never had it anywhere but a buffet. Not something I’d have as my main meal but as a little treat alongside more of a big breakfast, cool! I’d never even consider making it at home. A heaping helping of starch and fat does not do my body very good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biscuits-and-gravy-for-breakfast-you-want-some/633817.md?page=6)