# How different would the world be if the oceans were filled with gravy instead of water?
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**Created:** [April 21, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213 "2015-04-21T18:29:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/1 "2015-04-21T18:29:43Z")
Just wondering.
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### Author:  [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/2 "2015-04-21T18:31:35Z")
“Gravy boats” would not be confined to the dinner table.
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### Author:  [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/3 "2015-04-21T18:34:49Z")
67% more delicious.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/4 "2015-04-21T18:37:29Z")
Everyone would vacation in the Sandwich Islands.
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### Author:  [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/5 "2015-04-21T18:46:39Z")
If all the seas were gravy
And all the clouds were ink
And all the lakes were chocolate cakes,
Where would we get a drink?
_Mordified from an original by Mother Goose._
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### Author:  [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/6 "2015-04-21T18:51:20Z")
Nobody would go Hungary
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/7 "2015-04-21T18:52:28Z")
The problem is that there are so few gravy-based life forms. Dropping present-day fish in the Gravy Ocean would result in – well – Dead Fish (although they’d be floating in gravy!)
Presumably, you’re thinking of a world where gravy was there from the start (which means that causality would be reversed, since gravy would precede the creatures whose cooking would provide the gravy), and look at what would develop from there. Including people. Assuming that a giant meteor (a meatball, perhaps) wiped out the gravy dinosaurs, we would have evolved from ancestors who had gravy flowing (sluggishly, probably) through their veins, and so would we. People would be suffering from High Gravy Pressure, and all sorts of other things wouild happen. Movies would be rated “R” if there was too much Gravyshed.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/8 "2015-04-21T19:16:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Assuming that a giant meteor (a meatball, perhaps) wiped out the gravy dinosaurs,
Would that be the Chickenstock Event?
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/9 "2015-04-21T19:18:48Z")
Biscuit makers would see a major uptick in business.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/10 "2015-04-21T19:20:54Z")
Gravy is a colloid; there’s plenty of chemically accessible water in it. Life would have evolved to live in it, and probably use it for nutrition.
The world would smell like rotting gravy.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/11 "2015-04-21T19:26:40Z")
Wavy Gravy?
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/12 "2015-04-21T19:31:20Z")
Gravy navies.
Turkey would be less dry.
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### Author:  [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/13 "2015-04-21T19:39:53Z")
Would the continents be made of mashed potatoes?
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/14 "2015-04-21T21:59:53Z")
All faucets would come with ladles.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/15 "2015-04-21T22:12:21Z")
Mermaids would be quite obese.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/16 "2015-04-21T22:21:13Z")
Would think much of the sea life would die but some would survive to break the gravy down and eventually get back some sort of sea. Perhaps fresh water fishies could jump start the new oceans by migrating out. And yes it would stink a lot of rotten gravy for quite some time.
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### Author:  [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/17 "2015-04-21T22:25:47Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Everyone would vacation in the Sandwich Islands.
They would have to change their name to the Open Face Sandwich Islands.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/18 "2015-04-21T22:35:18Z")
You couldn’t yell **Help, I’m drowning** anymore.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/19 "2015-04-21T22:36:55Z")
> [@Cardboard](#):
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> Just wondering.
Instead of harvesting the fishes, we would harvest what the fishes swim in.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-different-would-the-world-be-if-the-oceans-were-filled-with-gravy-instead-of-water/718213/20 "2015-04-21T22:39:53Z")
While the answer may be factual, this is more MPSIMS rather than GQ. Moved.
**samclem** , moderator
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