Hello Dan. It’s Joe here. I hope you’re keeping well.
It’s the 21st of December, and though Christmas might still be four days away, Australians everywhere are celebrating the real highlight of the holidays. The best day of the year. The sauce celebration. Folks… it’s Gravy Day.
The day we, as a nation, pause to give our love to Angus, Frank, and Dolly, tell everyone that we’re sorry, and blindly warn our brothers against trying to root our wives. A day where we all dance to a reasonably obscure 70s reggae artist and hang shit on our sister’s new boyfriend. A day where, above all else, we come together as individual families to stir up some fairly ho hum brown sauce. It’s a magical day.
The calendar date immortalised by Paul Kelly‘s iconic Australian Christmas jam How To Make Gravy is upon us all once again, signalling the true start of the Australian festive season.
And, as such, scores of Australians are humbly pausing to mark the occasion on social media, spreading love, good will, and the good good real good brown stuff far and wide.
If you play How to Make Gravy at any point today, you’ll hear “it’s the 21st of December” on the 21st of December. Start your 21st of December right
— aimee (@aimeeclarke) December 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/LucyXIV/status/943586221472673793
https://twitter.com/shesaidso/status/943588850311368706
HAPPY GRAVY DAY YOU GUYS, make sure you don’t forget a dollop of tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang @itsthegravyman pic.twitter.com/jZSQWGa38S
— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) December 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/anguslivingston/status/943583100738531328
https://twitter.com/domalessio/status/943596348376367104
https://twitter.com/michaelkoziol/status/943598234743685120
https://twitter.com/tiredgirlclub/status/943614867742662656
wishing you and yours a merry gravy day pic.twitter.com/9ETf9BgUlv
— Gina Rushton (@ginarush) December 20, 2017
Good morning and a happy gravy day to one and all. Yes, even Roger. https://t.co/JFRgaQOmGN
— Patrick Stokes (@patstokes) December 20, 2017
#putyourgravyout National Gravy Day. pic.twitter.com/9FDUB5qlGd
— Shannon McKeogh (@shannylm) December 20, 2017
Happy #GravyDay
I hope you’re keeping well…— These Daves (@TheseDaves1) December 20, 2017
It’s the 21st of December. Happy Gravy Day @paulkelly and @itsthegravyman! pic.twitter.com/FUsGwEgG9w
— Tom Williams (@tom__williams) December 20, 2017
its gravy day bitch
— a big pretty Lizard (@birdcardigan) December 20, 2017
Even the great man, the blessed man, the Gravy Man himself has wished everyone a very good morn’ on this beautiful day.
It’s the 21st of December………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….incredibly good shit.
— Paul Kelly (@itsthegravyman) December 20, 2017
Hell yeah, mates! The 21st of December. It’s…. the Gravy Day.
A very merry one to you and yours. Kiss the sleeping children, and don’t ever – EVER – forget that dollop of tomato sauce.
Don’t 👏🏻 forget 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 dollop 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 tomato 👏🏻 sauce
— Paul Kelly (@itsthegravyman) December 21, 2016
Sweetness and tang are of the utmost importance, after all.
