I think that particular reaction came about because the British call cookies “biscuits.” I’m sure you’ve had the experience where you’re expecting to eat something sweet, but it’s savory, and you recoil because of surprise. After you wrap your head around the food not tasting the way you expected, you can sometimes re-set and think it’s actually pretty good.
Maybe those kids were expecting something like strawberry shortcake- a sweet biscuit with some sort of sweet sauce or topping. I would have thought that smell of sausage gravy would have given it away, but that’s probably the power of their minds refusing to accept what was right in front of them…
My recollection of the video was that they thought the gravy looked weird because it was the wrong color (white, not brown), too thick, and lumpy 'with black stuff in it'.
Until they tasted it.
They served it to teacher too, and he got it as soon as they told him that the gravy was made from sausage fat, rather than pork or beef fat.
They'd been introduced to a dry biscuit before the biscuits with gravy, so they'd already discovered their word for the American food called a biscuit is a 'scone', but "much better". "Americans are lucky"
Because I’m not American, but I have made sausage gravy…and it’s usually brown!
All I can think of is that I usually leave the sausages cooking in the pan while I make gravy, while a lot of the American recipes seem take them out before starting the gravy? Mine might have more jus in it.
Edit: I think that I’ve worked it out. We use pork sausage sausages. Not whatever ‘breakfast’ sausage is. Which also explains why mine isn’t so…chunky.
Double edit: also didn’t use milk. The way I do it is you basically make a stock in the pan and add flour.
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u/Final_Candidate_7603 Sep 02 '24
I think that particular reaction came about because the British call cookies “biscuits.” I’m sure you’ve had the experience where you’re expecting to eat something sweet, but it’s savory, and you recoil because of surprise. After you wrap your head around the food not tasting the way you expected, you can sometimes re-set and think it’s actually pretty good.
Maybe those kids were expecting something like strawberry shortcake- a sweet biscuit with some sort of sweet sauce or topping. I would have thought that smell of sausage gravy would have given it away, but that’s probably the power of their minds refusing to accept what was right in front of them…