old forgotten wars: "onion gravy"

[dubdobdee]

driving back from anerley thinking about food, and what i was going to eat tonight, the phrase "onion gravy" popped into my head, along with a little burst of irritation: i seemed to be recalling someone, long long long ago, proposing OG as a necessary part of a meal, and something about the self-satisfaction of their delivery irritating me enough that a glower splinter of the irrititation remains, when i can no longer remotely recall who this was...

i spent half the journey trying to reconstitute what had annoyed me: and have not yet really done so -- part of what's strange about it is that i like and am quite happy to make and devour gravy feat.onions, but find myself cross and defensive that this in some fashion constitutes the apparently unacceptable "onion gravy": if you accused it of being OG i wd hotly -- and very evidently irrationally -- attempt to refute you!

so wtf? i *think* this may have been someone who didn't know much about food or cooking laying down the law about what was the essential ingredient to turn a meal from ho hum to astonishing, and then picking on and stoutly insisting on something pleasant but commonplace, in the course of the affair larding it with a (in context) pretentiously fancy name... ?

anyway i am going to make gravy and start by frying onions in butter but if you think this is onion gravy i shall come to yr house and FvCK YOU UP DUDE

now where is my "dubdobdee is a mental" tag?

Comments

Onion chutney

[koganbot]

I think your memory deceives you; the phrase was actually "onion syrup."

i like and am quite happy to make and devour gravy feat. onions

But would you devour it on ice cream?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

From my time as a vegetarian, the phrase was used to cover a wide variety of faux gravies: most of them quite 'realistic', some of them less so. But in general the phrase makes me smile. In theory I am interested in trying it over meat, just not in practice, so far.