(US) A traditional Southern gravy, usually served with biscuits, made from milk or cream with meat drippings and flour.
(US) A traditional Southern gravy, usually served with biscuits, made from milk or cream with meat drippings and flour.
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(US) A traditional Southern breakfast dish, usually served with biscuits, made from pork sausage fat, milk, and seasonings.
(US) A breakfast dish composed of soft dough biscuits covered in sawmill gravy, sometimes with pieces of cooked sausage etc.
Bull gravy carries three distinct American meanings. In Texas culinary usage it refers to cream gravy — the white flour-thickened gravy made from pan drippings, a staple of Southern cooking. As general slang it means nonsense or bullshit — verbal rubbish dressed up as substance. A cruder third sense refers to semen. The culinary sense is the most broadly accessible; the nonsense sense is colourful and useful; the three meanings occupy very different registers and context determines which is meant.
(US, chiefly, Texas) Cream gravy.