# Poll: Biscuits and Gravy: Yumm, eww, or whatev
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 1, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139 "2010-11-01T22:28:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@acetylene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acetylene)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/1 "2010-11-01T22:28:46Z")
OK, Johnny L.A. [I did it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13085816&postcount=16). My first poll. Personally, I think biscuits and gravy is the worlds most perfect food. Especially the gravy. I mean, of course, sausage gravy. You may call it sawmill gravy, scorched gravy, or white gravy. I don’t care what you call it, I want a couple scoops of it over some biscuits. And what the hell, I’ll put it on my hash and homefries too.
So what does everyone else think about B&G? To me, a breakfast buffet MUST have it, otherwise it sucks. I mean guys in chefs hats can be preparing Eggs Benedict to order and I will still be disapppointed if there’s no gravy.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/2 "2010-11-01T23:02:12Z")
As long as there’s not a meat stock gravy, I’m all over it.
Og but I miss Skeeter’s. Best. Biscuits. EVER.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/3 "2010-11-01T23:06:58Z")
Made correctly, it might be God’s food.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/4 "2010-11-01T23:14:21Z")
Of course, if you ate proper biscuits and gravy every day, you’d be dead of a heart attack within a month. But you’d die very happy.
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### Author:  [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/5 "2010-11-01T23:21:43Z")
I used to think I hated this until I was at someone’s house and they were making homemade fried chicken (another thing I had never had before).
They took the leftover grease and made gravy out of it, poured it over some freshly-baked biscuits and served it to me.
Best thing I ever ate.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/6 "2010-11-01T23:25:09Z")
Oh yum! Granted, it’s not something I’d eat every day, (I’d be dead of a heart attack before I turned 35!), but every once in a while? It’s heavenly. Soft, floury biscuits, savory sausage gravy? Mmmm
This is more something I’d have for brunch, though. For some reason, I can’t eat really heavy right when I get up in the morning. (A frozen waffle is probably the most I can do. My usual is yogurt, or a banana)
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### Author:  [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/7 "2010-11-01T23:38:43Z")
I loves me some B&G! But I’ll pass on cheap imitations; others can choke down a “Warm Elmers on Dust-Brick” if they want.
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### Author:  [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/8 "2010-11-01T23:44:13Z")
With sausage gravy – definitely.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/9 "2010-11-01T23:50:23Z")
> [@acetylene](#):
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> OK, Johnny L.A. [I did it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13085816&postcount=16)…I think biscuits and gravy is the worlds most perfect food.
Not the most perfect but it’s up there for the best tasting food 🙂
I recall in the early 90s McDonalds would serve biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast and it was good.
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### Author:  [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/10 "2010-11-01T23:50:27Z")
I wish you’d included “I really like it, but I do have some standards regarding its preparation” in the poll.
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### Author:  [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/11 "2010-11-01T23:50:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> Of course, if you ate proper biscuits and gravy every day, you’d be dead of a heart attack within a month. But you’d die very happy.
My Granny-in-law made it every day of her life, with cat-head biscuits and eggs fried in lard. **Lard.** Usually she was smoking a hand-rolled ciggy while she stood at the stove and stirred. She died a few years back at the amazing age of 91. My mind boggles, but I sure hope my kids have inherited some of those genes.
As for me–blech. But I make it because my family likes it. Weirdos, the lot of ya.
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### Author:  [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/12 "2010-11-01T23:54:50Z")
Never had it, but it sounds weird. I can’t even imagine what it would taste like.
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/13 "2010-11-01T23:56:19Z")
One of God’s greatest hangover foods.
I also enjoy skipping the biscuits, and serving the gravy over scrambled eggs, which are themselves served over hash browns. Needless to say, I don’t do this often, but after a night of heavy drinking, it hits the spot like nothing else.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/14 "2010-11-01T23:57:53Z")
Food of the Gods.™
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/15 "2010-11-02T00:15:13Z")
Ambrosia is right (the sausage gravy, that is). Denny’s, or was it Perkins, used to make the BEST, and I ordered it every time we went (well, morning or lunchtime). Then all of a sudden it turned horrible, just horrible, and now I think it’s off the menu. I’ve seen cans or packets of the cream gravy that I guess you add sausage to, if it was anything like Denny’s I’d buy a case.
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### Author:  [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/16 "2010-11-02T00:20:53Z")
I’m from the south. We were raised on it. And I love it.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/17 "2010-11-02T00:46:50Z")
Don’t really see the point of them. Gravy goes on meat or mashed potatoes; putting them on biscuits leaves you soggy, unappetizing biscuits.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/18 "2010-11-02T00:52:31Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Don’t really see the point of them. Gravy goes on meat or mashed potatoes; putting them on biscuits leaves you soggy, unappetizing biscuits.
Me too. I vote “what ev”.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/19 "2010-11-02T00:54:59Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> Don’t really see the point of them. Gravy goes on meat or mashed potatoes; putting them on biscuits leaves you soggy, unappetizing biscuits.
It never occurred to me to put sausage gravy on meat. Over meatloaf, maybe?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/20 "2010-11-02T01:23:34Z")
Sausage gravy belongs on biscuits. And over hash. And hash browns. And…hell, over damn near anything.
**RC** , sausage gravy isn’t gravy. It’s…more.
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