Why do the English smother good food with gravy?

I agree totally , if they want to put gravy with the dish why not put it in a small gravy boat at the side? I carn't stand to much sauce with my meals (mind you i am scottish)

Your roast dinner should have gravy over the meat. However a good restaurant should ask if you require extra gravy or place a jug on your table.

I personally like gravy & believe that it enhances my food. However I do like to put my gravy where I want it. Not sure why you think beef gravy spoils lamb though unless it had a very strong flavour. When you work in catering you can become very picky with other establishments quite often without good reason.

If I overcooked (by accident) my meat such as roast then gravy is a necessity. But if the meat was cooked properly leaving it moist, you do not need to even use gravy. Gravy sometimes alter the original taste of the meat. Not only English people smother their meat with gravy but other nations too. Like in my country (Philippines) we always cook meat in sauce for the reason that meat tends to get very dry if roasted.

Let them laugh, I don't care, I just like gravy. Proper thick-as-bulls-lugs gravy. Or an ale gravy. So rich it could probably retire to a south pacific island if it could somehow get off my plate before I ate it.

Actually the last sunday roast I had I'm sure I heard singing

'Bali Ha'i may call you,

Any night, any day,

In your heart, you'll hear it call you:

"Come away...Come away."

I do agree that having gravy smothering everything on your plate like that was wrong. I certainly wouldn't want that on lamb. I haven't known a carvery where you didn't help yourselves to gravy, use a different restaurant next time, and don;t forget to invite all of us.

You just don't appreciate english food , If there wasn't any gravy we English would walk out the restaurant and refuse to pay .

A roast dinner without gravy just isn't worth eating .

Making the perfect gravy is a skill when you have this skill you might understand .

I hate gravy. I had a vegetarian meal soaked in beef gravy in a restaurant and when I sent it back you would have thought I had committed a major crime. One of the reasons I no longer eat out is because most restaurants haven't a clue about being vegetarian, I have even been offered fish as a vegetarian meal.

Gravy is delicious and the British taste in food was ruined long before we started dipping everything in gravy luv.

some warm sauces are extra helpful than others. i take advantage of Louisiana warm sauce and Tabasco warm sauce by way of fact they are the healthiest that i've got considered yet with 0 energy and no man made aspects or preservatives. yet bear in mind that too lots of something might properly be undesirable. what's extra significant is the food you're putting it on. Animal meat is the healthiest undertaking to consume it with.

I love gravy and am liberal with it at home but a good restaurant would offer you gravy in a gravy boat,they would not assume everyone wants it.

Good beef based gravy can make even bad food taste palatable.