Sauce or Gray??

[rebeccal]

Interesting...having grown up on Naga Shima (LI) and been Italian (by marriage) for nearly 28-years, I've known the "Red Stuff" as sauce but have heard a couple of "Jersey" Italians say gravy. I too believe these are regional expressions per se, but wonder just how large is the region (or where it has spread to).

I call it sauce and have never heard it called gravy. BUT, I lived in India, and they call the sauce (no matter what it's made out of, but it often has a tomato base) gravy.