Americans of non-Italian origins usually call our Italian sauce "gravy" and the "war" has been a century-old running gag, especially in the 3-state area (well, OK, maybe not "century-old"... but close!).

In the early 2000s, when Bruce Springsteen inc. set up a forum on his official website, there was a famous "sauce or gravy" thread that lasted for dozens of pages and was so hilarious we would spill our coffee on the screen! And then it was exported to other Bruce forums with the same success. I don't know about BJ forums because I didn't read them back then...