My mother went to school in Texas and had it a lot. Also she had it a lot in diners while on trips, and truck stops -- that her parents stopped at. My mother's father was a cattleman or cattle farmer (farms in Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri), and ran his own trucking company in the 1940s and 50s. They has a lot of potatoes with gravy and biscuits with gravy.
But my Dad didn't have that growing up. More can foods, like Chef Boyadee, and cheaper things. He was raised just outside of Philly. Parents were poor. But he was in the service (Korean War -- although never went overseas), and travel industry.
So they didn't really associate it that way, I don't think. My Dad just didn't like it. And it made me ill. (I didn't know why back then, but the mere thought of biscuits and gravy makes me want to hurl. Now, I do know why -- same reason I struggled with sandwiches..hello, ceiliac.)
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Date: 2019-11-06 01:03 am (UTC)My mother's father was a cattleman or cattle farmer (farms in Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri), and ran his own trucking company in the 1940s and 50s. They has a lot of potatoes with gravy and biscuits with gravy.
But my Dad didn't have that growing up. More can foods, like Chef Boyadee, and cheaper things. He was raised just outside of Philly. Parents were poor. But he was in the service (Korean War -- although never went overseas), and travel industry.
So they didn't really associate it that way, I don't think. My Dad just didn't like it. And it made me ill. (I didn't know why back then, but the mere thought of biscuits and gravy makes me want to hurl. Now, I do know why -- same reason I struggled with sandwiches..hello, ceiliac.)