Roast beef, roast chicken, and roast turkey are the top meals Brits like to enjoy gravy on – but one in ten love the brown sauce so much that they claim to put it on “everything”, a study has found. Some of the more unusual foods Brits will pour gravy over include cake, rice, and burgers – while 11 per cent have it on a pizza, and one in ten even top pasta with it.
A poll of 2,000 adults revealed almost half (42 per cent) consider gravy to be a British staple – with 11 per cent drinking it from a flask, and 13 per cent consuming it in the car. Nearly three-quarters of Brits (73 per cent) say they are fans of the brown stuff, and typically enjoy it three times a week.
In fact, one in three (32 per cent) claim they would rather have gravy than a pint of beer, while 29 per cent would opt for it over a glass of wine, and one in five would choose it instead of chocolate. Other unusual applications include pouring it over pancakes (six per cent), cereal (five per cent), jacket potatoes (nine per cent), hash browns (seven per cent), and rice (seven per cent).
