# Poll: Biscuits and Gravy: Yumm, eww, or whatev **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/61 "2010-11-02T18:25:05Z")
A local diner has a variation on Biscuits and Gravy that’s just _wonderful_ - Moon Biscuits and Gravy - Instead of a normal biscuit, they cook biscuit batter in a waffle iron. Yum! After he retired my father used to sneak out of the house whenever my sister would call and tell him she was making biscuits and gravy. She makes some very good B & G, from scratch. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/62 "2010-11-02T18:35:51Z")
With sausage gravy :b ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/63 "2010-11-02T19:18:48Z")
Never had it (or anything else that’s currently being polled about, actually), and I figured I never will, as I am a vegetarian, but now I’m curious to try **WhyNot** ’s version with the Morningstar Farms sausages. I have some in the freezer right now! Yum. I do adore biscuits, of course. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/64 "2010-11-02T19:28:35Z")
All this talk of biscuits and gravy without a mention of tabasco sauce or reasonable facsimile thereof? What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/65 "2010-11-02T19:32:42Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > … now I’m curious to try **WhyNot** ’s version with the Morningstar Farms sausages. I have some in the freezer right now! Yum. Do it! Do it! Use lots of fresh black pepper, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/66 "2010-11-02T20:02:01Z")
Speaking from my comfortable position on top of the food chain, biscuits and gravy are awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/67 "2010-11-02T20:03:26Z")
Quoth **pulykamell** : > [@](#): > > I’ve never seen biscuits served with anything but sausage gravy–and I’m a Northerner. My Polish-born father would even make it with white sausage gravy. Agreed. If I hear “gravy” absent of context, my first thought is of brown gravy (basically, broth of whatever meat you’re making, thickened with starch, and served on top of the meat, mashed potatoes, and stuffing). With biscuits and gravy, though, it absolutely must be white gravy. Quoth **WhyNot** : > [@](#): > > OK, here’s what you’re going to try next time: Take a bit of your saved bacon fat (you do save your bacon fat, right?) Save it? But that would mean not eating it the first time around! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/68 "2010-11-02T20:39:30Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > All this talk of biscuits and gravy without a mention of tabasco sauce or reasonable facsimile thereof? What’s up with that? On biscuits and gravy? They go all pink on you. Pink is not a shade I want to see on my breakfast plate unless it’s a ham steak. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/69 "2010-11-02T21:24:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Save it? But that would mean not eating it the first time around! pssst…you’re supposed to \*cook \*the bacon before you eat it. 😃 What, are you doing bacon grease shots or something? Or is your bacon that much leaner than mine? (Might be, I like thick cut bacon with lots of streaks.) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/70 "2010-11-02T21:43:59Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I hadn’t read the poll yet. I don’t like sausage gravy; in fact, it makes me a little queasy thinking about it. So it never occurred to me that that was what the poll was about. I roasted a chicken Sunday night for dinner, and made gravy, and I guess that was what was in my mind. “Biscuits and gravy” isn’t Any kind of biscuits + any kind of gravy, any more than cheesecake is Any kind of cheese + any kind of cake. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/71 "2010-11-02T22:04:21Z")
Oh damn, now I’m craving some. Seriously. Oh well. I can always go to Eat ‘N’ Park for their Sunday Brunch. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/72 "2010-11-02T22:04:54Z")
Love 'em – but (and this is a substantial “but”) they have to be made by someone who knows what they’re doing. Biscuits and gravy is like chicken-fried steak; there’s no such thing as “pretty good” of either, so unless they’re made the right way, everything ends in heartbreak and tears. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/73 "2010-11-02T22:09:42Z")
> [@](#): > > What, are you doing bacon grease shots or something? Or is your bacon that much leaner than mine? (Might be, I like thick cut bacon with lots of streaks.) When I’m using bacon as an ingredient, the grease goes in with the bacon. And when I’m cooking it separately, I fry bread in it to soak up the excess. You can make a really good BLT with fried slice. Whatever’s left in the pan after the fried slice is just about the right amount that I don’t need cooking spray the next time I make eggs. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/74 "2010-11-02T22:57:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > When I’m using bacon as an ingredient, the grease goes in with the bacon. And when I’m cooking it separately, I fry bread in it to soak up the excess. You can make a really good BLT with fried slice. Whatever’s left in the pan after the fried slice is just about the right amount that I don’t need cooking spray the next time I make eggs. Ah. I prefer my coronary symptoms chronic, not acute. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/75 "2010-11-03T00:02:52Z")
We buy Tennessee Pride sausage gravy. It’s in the cold foods part of the store. Cook a package of Pillsbury Grands biscuits and heat up the gravy. Great stuff!!! 😃 [http://www.zeer.com/Food-Products/Tennessee-Pride-Fully-Cooked-Sausage-Gravy/000062225](http://www.zeer.com/Food-Products/Tennessee-Pride-Fully-Cooked-Sausage-Gravy/000062225) ---
**Author:** ![HappyDays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f08c70/32.png) [@HappyDays](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HappyDays)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/76 "2010-11-03T02:03:02Z")
OMG, I am crazy about good, homemade B&G! I have been in Singapore for six months, but am heading back to the US for a couple of weeks. I have been fantasizing about KC barbecue for weeks. Now, thanks to this post, I am torn as to which I should have first. Either way, it will be a glorious mixture of pork and sauce served atop some form of bread. I concur with silenus on his assessment that B&G is the food of the gods; I’m just glad they’re willing to share. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/77 "2010-11-03T23:31:54Z")
Biscuits and gravy [make me a man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMDvDJnaGw)! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/78 "2010-11-03T23:43:16Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > NOT sausage gravy. Ick. I voted yes and then y’all started talking sausage. I’m talking regular gravy here. Yes? To non-sausage gravy? On biscuits? What kind of nasty biscuits and gravy do you eat? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/79 "2010-11-04T03:54:06Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > We buy Tennessee Pride sausage gravy. It’s in the cold foods part of the store. Cook a package of Pillsbury Grands biscuits and heat up the gravy. Great stuff!!! 😃 > [http://www.zeer.com/Food-Products/Tennessee-Pride-Fully-Cooked-Sausage-Gravy/000062225](http://www.zeer.com/Food-Products/Tennessee-Pride-Fully-Cooked-Sausage-Gravy/000062225) For me, that’d work in a pinch, but “flaky” biscuits (like Grands) aren’t really the proper type…you really need the sort of biscuits that are crumbly, rather than flaky (not sure of exactly what makes for one sort of biscuit versus the other). ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139/80 "2010-11-04T07:23:22Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > [This is biscuits and gravy.](http://www.insideidaho.info/pocatello/images/stories/jeris/biscuits-and-gravy.jpg) MODS!!! MODS!!! Quick! Do something! **amarone** is posting links to food porn in this forum! [/SALIVATING] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-biscuits-and-gravy-yumm-eww-or-whatev/559139.md?page=5)