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Within the course of many discussion over holiday meals with plenty of excessive gravy on the fancy Holiday table cloth one can only imagine how much easier it would be to avoid if you used thick gravy instead of the normal runny stuff often out of a can or lacking of a good thickening rue.

I am not talking about that classic so lumpy that it falls out of the gravy server in splashes onto your clothes as you pour. I am thinking about the wonderfully thick gravy in a deep brown color that both flows well and sticks to the lumpy mashed potatoes, stuffing and even the dry white turkey meat.

The kind of gravy akin to that of sausage gravy on biscuits or toast in the mess hall back in the 1980's when I was in the Army. The thick quality of this brownish delicacy was without match even at my grandmother's house on the holidays earlier in my life.

We often think back to the 1970's for those of us that old when we got together and played games while still eating turkey, dressing and even cold mashed potatoes with even thicker Luke warm gravy. While laughing and playing games, assembling those classic toy garages, doll houses and even an occasional hot wheels extravaganza of old.

Why do I keep bringing up all the other memories when I think of thick gravy? Because those are the things that bring back those days of the thick, slow flowing brown heaven out of the turkey roaster with little bits of dark meat and even some skin occasionally mixed in gravy that my grandma used to make.

The family split at two tables, the adults at one table and the kids at another begging for seconds just as the parents were barely getting started often as kids rarely waited for grace before devouring the overflowing plate of yams, stuffing, mashed potatoes, potato salad, ambrosia, turkey, ham and of course the delightfully thick gravy.

All too often by the time it was passed around half way around the table the gravy boat was empty and someone had to make the next trip to fill it up with that delicious enticing flow of the delicious brown gravy. Not the canned stuff that's for another discussion entirely as all too often those are barbaric in nature and very very pale, thin in mass. Not the kind worthy of a grandmother's love on the holiday table those are the things are made for a fable.

Thin gravy for some is the passion that they feast upon and with each passing year I have had many to taste. But, with each and every holiday feast the one thing I wish for, the one thing I miss is grandma's delicious holiday treasure her poignant yet simple, heavily thickened, lump-less delicious gravy supreme.

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