Gravy vs. Poutine

Gravy vs. Poutine — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Gravy and Poutine

Gravynoun

(uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.

Poutinenoun

(Canada) A dish consisting of french fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada

Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.

Gravynoun

A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.

A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.

Poutinenoun

(Canada) Any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.

In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.

Gravynoun

(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce

There are few foods more Southern than biscuits and gravy.

Gravynoun

(countable) A type of gravy.

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Gravynoun

Sauce used for pasta.

Gravynoun

Curry sauce.

Gravynoun

Unearned gain.

Gravynoun

Extra benefit.

The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.

Gravynoun

basically the juices that drip from cooking meats

Gravynoun

a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money);

the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line
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