Gravy vs. Poutine: What's the Difference?
Gravy and Poutine Definitions
Gravy
The juices that drip from cooking meat.
Poutine
A dish of Québécois origin consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy.
Gravy
A sauce made by thickening and seasoning these juices.
Poutine
(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.
Gravy
Money, profit, or benefit easily or illicitly gained.
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Poutine
(Canada) Any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.
Gravy
Payment or benefit in excess of what is expected or required.
Gravy
A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
Gravy
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
A roast dinner isn't complete without gravy.
Gravy
(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.
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Gravy
Sauce used for pasta.
Gravy
Curry sauce.
Gravy
Unearned gain.
Gravy
Extra benefit.
The first thousand tickets and the concessions cover the venue and the band. The rest is gravy.
Gravy
To make gravy.
Gravy
The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
Gravy
Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
Gravy
Basically the juices that drip from cooking meats
Gravy
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
