Silly S/O...Stuffing or Dressing?

Stuffing. My dad was from Maine and my mom from Pennsylvania. Not sure if we call it stuffing because my dad did or if they both did.

I live in the southeast. My family says dressing but I prefer stuffing. They correct me all the time.

Where I live they are two different things - similar, but still different.

Stuffing.  Another New England girl 

Stuffing is cooked in the turkey.  Dressing cooked outside the turkey.  We call it stuffing no matter where it is cooked.

I call it dressing, and I grew up in NW Illinois. I don't 'stuff' anything, though, because I like the crispy edges; ours cooks in a casserole dish.

If it was stuffed inside the bird, I guess I'd call it stuffing.

Dressing...I'm in Texas.

I'm from Oklahoma too and I was taught the same thing.

We always have dressing.  

This is a complicated question in my family.

I live in Texas. I have lived here all my life and consider myself a Texan. My mom is from PA. I learned to cook from her obviously. So I stuff the bird. She calls it filling. Which always cracks us up. I usually call it stuffing because I put it in the bird. I also make dressing for my DH who is also Texan and had a Texan mom. They had cornbread dressing outside the bird. So we have both at our table. I eat both. I like both. My DH only eats dressing. My mom only eats filling (stuffing- lol ) and the rest of the family eats both. None of my PA relatives live here. We were military and none of my sibs or myself ever lived in PA.

Call it whatever you want...it's my favorite part of the meal!!

We've always cooked it outside the bird, but called it stuffing. I know if it's outside the bird, it's dressing; if it's inside, it's stuffing. But we just always called it stuffing.

Edited to add: Born and raised in Utah.

We call it dressing and cook it inside the bird (just to be contrary) - east coast Canada, although my Toronto born grandmother also called it dressing.

We had this thread last week.

The words are not interchangeable. They are two separate things.

Stuffing, by its very definition, had to be stuffed inside something. If you don't cook it in the bird it is not stuffing.

We eat dressing, which is not cooked in the bird.

We always called it stuffing, though raised in Texas, I am sure the term came from my Indiana raised dad.

I cal it stuffing and I am currently in Colorado. I have always called it stuffing and I have lived from Alaska to New Jersey. I am thinking it must be how we grew up saying it. I lived in Oklahoma, where I see some call it dressing, but I don't remember hearing that when I lived there. When I think of dressing, i picture little boots on the turkeys legs and maybe a bow tie. He needs to be dressed since he is the guest of honor at the party.