re: Do people in South LA eat beef stew over rice?

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Do people in South LA eat beef stew over rice?

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Beef stew, pot roast, pork roast, etc... Anything with some good liquid component I like to eat over rice.

My wife won't eat rice with beef stew or pot roast even though she's from N.O.

Same here. Granny would serve it over day old french bread. That's still the way I like Beef Stew. Almost like and open face Roast Beef.

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Do people in South LA eat beef stew over rice?

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It's called rice and gravy you damn yankee

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I didn’t know that this wasn’t normal

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I think it is normal, but growing up (in Georgia) I didn't really understand that stews were eaten over anything. I thought they were thick soups eaten from a bowl (which they can be, obviously).

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It's called rice and gravy you damn yankee

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Actually it’s not. It’s called a stew. Calling it “rice and gravy” is like calling spaghetti ramen noodles. And yes, beef stew is commonly eaten over rice.

The problem with people from S LA is they have zero clue about what constitutes stews, gravies, rice and gravies, roast and gravies or anything else of that ilk. Not compared to the rest of the free world. I have this conversation with coonass friends of mine that I hunt with every year.

You take a chuck roast, brown it, add whatever aromatics, braise it down and eat it over rice... coonasses call it rice and gravy. It’s not. It’s a roast, pot roast or roast and gravy. What the frick does the rice have to with it, and why would it get headline billing instead of the actual protein?

I took some round steak, browned it and and cooked it down. What did I have for supper?

Coonasses- Rice and Gravy
The rest of the planet- Round steak

Chicken, pork, whatever. It’s all rice and gravy to them. It’s really hilarious

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Chicken, pork, whatever. It’s all rice and gravy to them. It’s really hilarious

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And some people call all sodas "coke" while some call it "pop."

The question was "do people in South LA eat beef stew over rice?" and the answer is yes and it's called rice and gravy.

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The problem with people from S LA is they have zero clue about what constitutes stews, gravies, rice and gravies, roast and gravies or anything else of that ilk. Not compared to the rest of the free world. I have this conversation with coonass friends of mine that I hunt with every year.

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Because, get this, it doesn't matter what constitutes a stew. The cajun cuisine was built on "make a dish out of what's available" and quite often that dish is called rice and gravy.

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You take a chuck roast, brown it, add whatever aromatics, braise it down and eat it over rice... coonasses call it rice and gravy. It’s not. It’s a roast, pot roast or roast and gravy. What the frick does the rice have to with it, and why would it get headline billing instead of the actual protein?

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Because the protein can be anything you condescending frick.

I never knew this wasn't the norm

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This is only debatable with people from south la. Everyone else just laughs at you.

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They might laugh at us, but they routinely travel here specifically to eat our food. That's the best part about being Cajun, we laugh at ourselves, with others. No one tells a good coonass joke like a coonass.

Imagine that, an entire sector of the local tourism industry based around people coming here to laugh at our food and then eat it.

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Coonasses- Rice and Gravy
The rest of the planet- Round steak

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We called it smothered round steak. The rice and gravy was assumed. Smothered chicken, smothered pork chops ... all served with rice and gravy. Roast and rice and gravy.

Don't be an a-hole. Or maybe you're incapable of being anything else.

Good with instant mashed taters too. Always add lots of carrots and green peas. Beef stew is also good over biscuits. Steins syrup and corn bread added and you really have a good meal.







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