Giblet Gravy
The Thanksgiving gravy: turkey drippings and stock thickened with a roux, enriched with the chopped, simmered giblets — neck meat, heart, gizzard, liver — and often chopped egg.
New England Diners
New England diners serve the holiday gravies year-round: turkey and giblet gravy, split-top rolls, and johnnycakes under gravy. Thanksgiving is its home ground.
Turkey Gravy
Roast-turkey drippings and stock, flour-thickened and strained smooth. Giblet gravy's plainer sibling: the same holiday bird, without the chopped giblets.
English Muffin
A fork-split, griddled muffin with a pocked interior made to catch gravy. The breakfast-sandwich bread that also serves as a plated gravy base.
Split-Top Roll
A soft white roll with a split baked into its top, the New England bakery roll. Toasted in butter, it is the base of hot sandwiches and gravy plates.
Johnnycake
A cornmeal griddle cake of Rhode Island tradition, thin and crisp-edged. A New England base that takes milk gravy, syrup, or gravy-and-ham plates.