What was this U.S. breakfast dish?

So what do you think is gravy?

It might work.

I would guess, however, that no one would begin to answer the question of “What gravies were on your breakfast buffet years ago?”

I think the hotel was one of the Wyndham chain of hotels, but I can’t seem to find it on google maps. It had a very small triangular park outside the front entrance and the park had some kind of statue in the centre. It might have closed down? In any case, I can’t find it now.

Australians consider gravy a condiment - as mentioned upthread. Meat dripping, usually from a roast, thickened with flour, to be served over the roast meat and the roast vegetables accompanying it. It’s very odd to see multiple recipes for different flavours of gravy and that it’s considered a meal! The weirdest would have to be the bolognaise sauces called “gravy”.

And isn’t “cocoa gravy” basically hot chocolate sauce? Like what you have on sundaes?

Not all Americans consider gravy to be a meal. I suspect that most don’t. I suspect that most consider it to be a condiment.

That’s a holdover of the Italian-American dialect that has since become more general. And even within the Italian community that wasn’t universal - my family always called spaghetti sauce “sauce”.

Not the way I grew up with it. It had about the same consistency as sawmill gravy, only it was chocolate flavored instead of sausage flavored

This thread had me thinking about gravy. So on the way back to the house this morning I stopped at the gas station and got a ‘breakfast bowl’. (Dog’s breakfast bowl, more like! Ooh, it looked nasty!) Apparently Jack-In-The-Box sells something like it, and this is the mini-mart’s version. I couldn’t really tell what was in it. I think it was a biscuit, hashbrowns, sausage, bacon, eggs, onions, celery, and lots of sausage gravy. Oh, and cheese.

I’m sure it’s popular with some people. I might have liked it better if it didn’t have cheese in it. (Gravy and cheese? Come on!) But I don’t think I’ll ever get it again.

Americans also consider it a condiment. The comments about it being a meal were intended to be humorous. Mostly.

That’s what I think every time I see a commercial for those KFC bowls. I’ve not had one and won’t be doing so. For one, cheese and gravy do not go together. For two, I’m really not big on having an entire meal of separate components dumped into one bowl together. Yuck.

Celery? Are you sure it wasn’t green peppers?

The thing that icks me out the most, is the corn.

Like hell they do. They serve a runny white sauce with occasional bits of sausage floating in over a flat-bread.

IHOPs biscuits and gravy are an abomination upon the face of this earth, and whoever designed that dish and placed it on their menu will be second up against the wall when I am king (firsties going to whoever thought artificial bacon was a good idea).

:stuck_out_tongue: Goes to show that MMV. I love corn and gravy, although usually it’s brown gravy rather than cream gravy. Now corn stuck in my mashed taters, not so much. Besides, the chicken bits would get soggy soaking in all that muck. Blech.