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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 24, 2015 16:59:10 GMT
What do you call it and what region are you from? I am a stuffing girl from New England.
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 24, 2015 17:05:14 GMT
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.
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Post by LeaP on Nov 24, 2015 17:08:33 GMT
I have learned, here in the pod, that we eat dressing but erroneously call it stuffing. Once upon a time we used to put it the bird, but we have smoked the bird for years so in the oven it goes. My husband is from St. Louis and I am from New York City.
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Post by scrapqueen01 on Nov 24, 2015 17:08:52 GMT
I live in the southeast. My family says dressing but I prefer stuffing. They correct me all the time.
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Post by padresfan619 on Nov 24, 2015 17:09:51 GMT
I'm from San Diego.
Stuffing = stuffed and cooked inside the bird. Drawing = not cooked inside the bird.
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Post by scrapsotime on Nov 24, 2015 17:10:01 GMT
Where I live they are two different things - similar, but still different.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 17:11:32 GMT
Stuffing gets stuffed in the bird and cooked.
Dressing is put in a baking dish and cooked.
I currently live in the South, and everything is dressing.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Nov 24, 2015 17:14:08 GMT
What do you call it and what region are you from? I am a stuffing girl from New England. 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.
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Post by esperanza on Nov 24, 2015 17:15:27 GMT
We eat dressing. It's in a dish outside the bird. I'm in Georgia.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 24, 2015 17:18:20 GMT
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.
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Post by rodeomom on Nov 24, 2015 17:19:14 GMT
Dressing out side the bird Stuffing in the bird I'm from Oklahoma
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Post by mellowyellow on Nov 24, 2015 17:21:02 GMT
Dressing...I'm in Texas.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 24, 2015 17:21:11 GMT
What do you call it and what region are you from? I am a stuffing girl from New England. 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. Well this is my learning moment for today...I did not know there was a difference. We call it all stuffing, no matter where it is cooked. Thanks for all the responses
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Post by auntkelly on Nov 24, 2015 17:22:34 GMT
Dressing out side the bird Stuffing in the bird I'm from Oklahoma I'm from Oklahoma too and I was taught the same thing. We always have dressing.
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Post by anxiousmom on Nov 24, 2015 17:22:34 GMT
Dressing. Actually specifically 'Mama xxx's Dressing" and the directions specifically say that it goes into a pan to be baked. I am in the south, as was Mama xxx.
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Post by TXMary on Nov 24, 2015 17:23:23 GMT
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!!
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Post by Kelpea on Nov 24, 2015 17:25:46 GMT
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Post by deafpea on Nov 24, 2015 17:31:44 GMT
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.
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Post by Mystie on Nov 24, 2015 17:33:22 GMT
I'm from Ohio, we always call it stuffing, even though we never cook it in the bird.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Nov 24, 2015 17:37:41 GMT
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.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 24, 2015 17:39:47 GMT
Always stuffing, whether cooked in the bird or not. Grew up in BC and lived in the PNW and San Diego. Dressing is something we put on salad .
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Post by myshelly on Nov 24, 2015 17:42:36 GMT
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.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 24, 2015 17:44:30 GMT
Stovetop Stuffing says on the box to make it in a pan... just sayin' just to confuse the issue a bit more, lol!
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 24, 2015 17:47:12 GMT
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. Sorry I missed the thread last week,I am surprised as I usually don't miss much here. Glad it gave you a second chance to educate me that they are not interchangeable...hahaha Sadly they are interchangeable in my world. ETA - I am going to have to go and look for that thread...wouldn't it be even more embarrassing if I actually posted on it.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Nov 24, 2015 17:47:43 GMT
Ours is stuffing inside the bird and we are from Washington state.
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Post by mjmone on Nov 24, 2015 17:48:51 GMT
We always called it stuffing, though raised in Texas, I am sure the term came from my Indiana raised dad.
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Post by Dalai Mama on Nov 24, 2015 17:49:42 GMT
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. Given that stuffing doesn't exist in my world (other than the abominable 'from the box stovetop' kind), they are absolutely interchangeable.
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Post by marimoose on Nov 24, 2015 17:52:40 GMT
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.
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Post by winogirl on Nov 24, 2015 17:58:24 GMT
The only thing I call stuffing is Stove Top, which ironically I serve as a side dish and never stuff anything with it. And it is never served on Thanksgiving!
on Thanksgiving, we have homemade turkey and dressing; the homemade is always called dressing whether it's cooked in the bird or out.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 24, 2015 18:29:05 GMT
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. No matter how insistent you are, the only definition I can find that uses dressing the way you do, defines "dressing" as "stuffing", which does make them interchangeable. I completely understand that the word is used regionally the way you do, but it doesn't make the rest of us wrong. They also appear in the thesaurus as synonyms. If you asked someone to pass you the dressing at our dinner table, a liquid to pour on your salad would be heading your way .
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