Do you DRINK gravy? Is that gross?

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I just had a KFC combo meal that comes with a tub of gravy, I didn't finish it all, but it was so tasty that I picked up the tub and drunk it all.

Was that gross? I did it in the office and now I feel everyone's eyes are looking at me in condemnation and disgust.

Do YOU do this? In public? Or just a guilty pleasure at home? And of course feel free to LOG OUT first if you feel a confession may affect your social standings within ilx. or that at your next job interview people would google your name and discover that YOU DRANK GRAVY!! FUCK! GROSS. MINGING#'1 ETC

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

that is absolutely vile ken

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I make sure I have plenty gravy on my plate so I can spoon it up when I've finished my food. At home. On my own.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Drinking gravy- sick and wrong
Drinking vinegar- finest pleasure on earth.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

sick motherfuckers

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

: (

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

when you sub gravy or slaw for a drink do they fill the drink container with it? Sweet dream of dreams.

xpost, YES we have buffet, it is the most genius thing of all time. And you *can* fill your drink container with gravy (I have done it.)

-- roxymuzak (emilysu...), October 29th, 2004.

You guys.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

there's nothing wrong with drinking gravy, other than the 'vulgarity'. i mean it's not as if gravy tastes bad is it?

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I've seen my dad drink melted butter.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

ah I'm with you ken, so nice KFC gravy it's well worth the glug.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

stop trying to rationalise/justify it. gravy drinking motherfuckers.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

God I love drinking gravy. Chicken gravy from KFC is yummy and a rare instance in the south to get nice, gloopy VISCOUS gravy like us northern gets have been used to in more sensible climes. I adore gravy.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

see steve brings up a good point - it's not DESIGNED to be drunk, but if it tastes good, then what is it in particular that makes it disgusting??! if it's inherently gross you wouldn't put it on your food in the first place.. or maybe the flavour is too intense for a lot of people to consume this on its own?

xpost yay ste!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

have you ever tried heroin, ken c?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

when I make my own gravy I will quite happily drink it, but I prefer to spread it on buttered toast. KFC gravy hell no.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

no.. does heroin taste like gravy? I'd try it if it does.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

nothing from kfc is going into my mouth, all social mores aside.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

I like to eat gravy granules.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

I have never tried that caitlin! Maybe I'll give it a go tonight.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Gravy = Soup + starch - chunks.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

It's all gravy!

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

i dont like gravy

i drink cereal milk though, i was told that was bad behaviour!

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

gravy reminds me of dog food, for some reason.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I knew Sarah would be here somewhere.

'Gravy for the young lady.'

It is horrible, Ken. Couldn't you have mopped it up with some bread?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

well some of it's made of bone.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

gravy reminds me of dog food, for some reason.
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/23/fa/petsDogsFoodAllGravy_Train_Dog_Food-resized200.jpg
hmmm.. curious...

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

oh peter i'd run out of everything possible for mopping it up - chips, chicken, bread (which i guess i didn't have in the first place).

And that gravy was looking so tasty in its little tub!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

what about drinking bovril? People do that, and that's just gravy really.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god! Bovril doesn't have beef in it any more! Nobody told me!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril

What's the world coming to??

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I'll drink Bovril, or beef oxo with loads of black pepper - ideal camping drink.

Thick gravy though - ewwww.

Kev drinks the vinegar from the pickle jar. STOP THAT!

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Yer what? Man, vegetarians can drink Bovril now? Feh, is nothing sacred.

Ken, it might have been slightly bad public form to drink your gravy. It's the kind of thing you should do at home so no-one has to see your post-gravoital grin i.e. nasty but great.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Ken, I've already asked you this once this week, but WHAT THE FUCK PLANET ARE YOU FROM?! AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

haha the planet where people drink gravy and women occasionally masturbate for the sheer sake of it!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

is that really so wrong?!?!?!?????

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Next time I go out I'm going to order a GRAVYTINI and watched the stunned horror expressions.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

shaken not stirred?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Bullshot = warm beef bouillon + vodka + tabasco.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I can't tell if that sounds disgusting or gorgeous.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

anything involving meat and booze can't be bad

― lock robster (robster), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Chopped liver slathered in Smirnoff Ice for you Sar?

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

actually...

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

A bar in oxford once made me a bloody mary with beef in it and it was the BEST THING EVER. I didn't order is specially or anything, it was on the menu.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

When Nickalicious wrote "gravytini" I was picturing some kind of pasta with gravy for the sauce.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

The gravy that I've seen from KFC's around here has never even looked edible to me. I can't imagine drinking it

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

haha, stan fields' shocking statement killed the thread for 5 whole months!

i wish i have a tub of KFC gravy here now for drinking.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I've had a kfc craving today too, it's not going to be satisfied tho the nearest joint is miles away and i don't drive :(

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Canadians, and anyone considering coming to Canada, should get gravy from A & W (my guess is that the US ones wouldn't have the same stuff) and drink any excess. I have done this many times and I'm never sorry.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 29 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

http://crystalpepsi.captainmike.org/crystal_gravy.jpg

RIGHT NOW!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Two words: SWISS CHALET (the Canadians know what I'm on about)

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

oh man i have yummy udon noodles waiting for me for lunch but i read this thread and suddenly i crave KFC!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

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all chicken shops are kind of a KFC disciple.. you mean for someone to make it themselves?
-- ken c (pykachu10...), October 5th, 2006.

So, you're British, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

80% butter, 20% flour

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm with the vinegar drinkers. Especially the purple stuff at the bottom of a jar of beetroot. MMmmmmm. It's the greatest thing I ever learned from my dad. The mister thinks this is freaky.

I have never had KFC gravy. I've never even thought of involving gravy in a KFC meal. Why would you?

My pet hate of gravy-related things = when you go somewhere that is doing carvery roasts or various different roast meats of some description and they only have one jug of uniform meh gravy to pour over whichever of the several different types of meat that you've ordered. If you're making roast beef/lamb/pork/chicken/turkey, how difficult is it to make different gravies out of the juices from each one? (answer: not very)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

BECHAMEL SAUCE
6 tsp. unsalted butter
6 tsp. flour
1 qt. (4 c.) milk
1 onion
1 tsp. salt
Scald 1 qt. milk while being careful not to curdle.
In a saucepan, melt butter, add flour, combine well and whisk until golden brown. Gradually stir in the scalded milk, then add the onion. Cook over low heat for about an hour, stirring occasionally.

Strain through cheesecloth.

NOWHERE DOES IT SAY "Drink like this was a potable concoction on its own."

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, drinks need instructions now, do they?

(it's liquid, it tastes good, why not?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

(it's liquid, it tastes good, why not?)

FUCK FUCK FUCK I JUST POSTED THAT AS A REPLY TO DAN PERRY!!!

*aims gun at foot*

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

:-D

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, too busy doing a jig to properly riff, please giggle at your own dirty joke here)

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm. Potable.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

this seems like it would give you the runs something fierce

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've never even thought of involving gravy in a KFC meal. Why would you?

THE MASHED POTATOES, FER ONE.

In NYC i wouldn't say i prefer, but i frequent more regularly a variety of Crown Fried Chicken establishments. Soooo much chicken. Shit, maybe I'll go there right now.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

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― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

If it is so gross, why would one pour it (bechamel, gravy, whatevs) all over one's food, huh? HUH HUH?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

HEY...I drink gravy! I'm a gravy drinker!

but bechamel, even bearnaise, is just way too hardcore.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

omg, nicka quoted my gnarliest post ever on this thread :/

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm meh about gravy-drinking. It's not for me, but I'm not especially disgusted that others like it. I'm sure there are more unhealthful ways of getting your kicks.

But for some reason, what really grossed me out was reading that wikipedia article about Bovril.

I read there that they put the beef back in after the EU ban on British beef was lifted in 2005. Pity since I might've given a yeast-based Bovril a go. I'm afraid I couldn't stomach HP sauce. Does that mean I wouldn't like yeast-based Bovril?

― Melinda Mess-injure (Melinda Mess-injure), Friday, 6 October 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Back to the gravy slurping...A friend of mine worked in the dining commons of the dorms at Cal. She told me how she once stopped these Korean stoodents from mistakenly drinking gravy as soup. The gravy tureens were placed where soup normally goes, so it was understandable that the foreign students just thought the soup was especially thick, fatty, and salty that day. Western food, especially institutional food, is usually that way.

But now that I read this thread 15 or so years later, I think it's possible they wanted to quaff the gravy in copious amounts...er probably not.

Ken C. would've been in paradise: Just imagine all the gravy you could ever want to slurp down. And no one would socially disapprove of you; they'd just think you were a foreign stoodent and chalk it down to cultural differences.

― Melinda Mess-injure (Melinda Mess-injure), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

If it is so gross, why would one pour it (bechamel, gravy, whatevs) all over one's food, huh? HUH HUH?

So you'd also be down with drinking ketchup? How about sour cream?

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 October 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

ketchup maybe not, but sour cream, hell yeah

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles

Where is that?

Interesting about the IFSC but sadly with my teeth I cannot partake. Few things sadder than a guy eating finger food with a knife and fork. Actually, a man eating sushi with a knife and fork is sadder. I use chopsticks BTW.

Drinking sour cream? Ed you wrong in the head...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Mustard? Hollandaise? Horseradish sauce?

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

yum yum

Actually what is really good is my granny's dip recipe which is made by mixing horseradish sauce and sour cream or creme fraiche, that I can just spoon in.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I often take a swig from the vinegar bottle when I am making dressing.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

IS PASSANTINO FUSSY ABOUT HIS VINEGAR DRINKING?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

On the fried chicken thing, the fried chicken from the jamaican stall in chapel market is very tasty but a large portion with rice and peas and a fried dumpling defeated me at lunchtime (4 pieces of fried chicken slathered in sweet chilli sauce)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

to: Jordan
from: Nick

Re: first KFC was in Utah theory

Body: ha

― UFC (nickalicious), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, ignore that.

KFC is yum squared! I ate at the first KFC ever built...in Salt Lake City, Utah. WTF.

If this was true it would be called UFC.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

FROM WIKI

The first to take him up on the offer was Pete Harman[4] in South Salt Lake, Utah; together, they opened the world's first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" outlet in 1952.

OMG I cannot believe this.

― I was wrong (nickalicious), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

KFC mash MUST have KFC gravy, but UK outlets don't do mash (and American ones never used to do chips).

That Chapel Market Carib stall is so good; they make HOMEMADE patties.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ed - House of Wings on holloway road near dirty hole pub Angies does nice barbecue chicken that is not like KFC

― Mark Co (Markco), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

i never found KFC gravy when i was in nyc, or it just wasn't on the menus

bbq beans made up for it tho.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

yes, the patties are very good, in fact everything from there is good and appears to be made with much care and attention.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles
Where is that?

Los Angeles chain (fewer than 10). The Pasadena one closed recently. It's good (not as good as its reputaion, I'd say) but more expensive than take-out type places.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

The Pasadena one closed? But, but, that was my local!

I am, perhaps, building it up to be better than it actually was, but it was soooo much better than anything you would get here.

The best chicken I ever had in my life was at some fancy restaurant in New Orleans. Smothered chicken, yum yum yum.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite chicken in Pasadena was Rotisserie Chicken, but that's closed too. There's always Zankou. And really, no fried chicken is better than homemade, though the cleanup is a bitch.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I used to drink gravy as a kid. These days I don't have gravy on anything and the opportunity never arises.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

No mashed potatoes at UK KFCs? How can that be? Why not just not serve chicken? The mashed potatoes are not OPTIONAL in a fried chicken meal. French fries are fien, but were not a part of the tradition, so should not be used as a mash replacement.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

the idea that all fried chicken joints are some the children of kfc...i mean just...urgh. arrgh.

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

STICK TO STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE YOU DUMBASSES

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

"long john silvers is the progenitor of the popular dish 'fish and chips.'"

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

your INDIGNATION is STUNNING

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

ten years pass...

Just drank half a tub

― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 12:02 (eight years ago)

Also started drinking recently: left over vinegary soy sauce from dumpling dippage

It actually hurts my head a bit but, wow

― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 12:04 (eight years ago)

The idea of drinking a large quantity of gravy grosses me out, which is exceedingly irrational. (The viscosity? I love a good frappucino or daiquiri. The fat and salt? I'll wreck a buffet given half a chance.)

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