What do you call it?

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What do you call it?

Stuffing
14
78%
Filling
1
6%
Dressing
3
17%
Other
0
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Total votes: 18

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What do you call it?

Postby Indiana » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:35 pm

What do you call the bread or rice mixture that goes in the cavity of a turkey, chicken, or pork chop or steak pocket.

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Re: What do you call it?

Postby Emptynester » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:06 am

According to the Elton Brown on Food Network if it goes inside the bird/or other meat it is stuffing. If it is cooked in a pan it is dressing.

This comes from his Thanksgiving Special on how to Roast a Turkey.
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Re: What do you call it?

Postby Sunny » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:14 am

I voted for the "stuffing" because that's what my family always called it . We always have made bread stuffing and put into turkey, chicken or pork chops. Any of the fixins' that was left after stuffing we baked in the oven in a casserole.
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Re: What do you call it?

Postby Lisa B. » Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:34 am

We've always called it stuffing when we stuff our chickens - so that's what I voted for.
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Re: What do you call it?

Postby lucylee » Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:09 am

I would call it stuffing if we stuffed it in anything, but I have never actually eaten a turkey or anything w/stuffing!

We only do dressing. The question here is, do you want your dressing soupy/moist... or do you want it dry, almost like cornbread. DH & I vote for dry. DS likes it moist, and unfortunately for dh & me, so does most of my side of the family. :P DH's mother makes very good dressing though. My mom makes very good dressing, but for some reason, my aunts always make it for my side of the family.
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Re: What do you call it?

Postby trish » Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:34 am

I call it stuffing.

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Re: What do you call it?

Postby Indiana » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:00 am

I call it:

stuffing if in turkey, chicken, etc.

dressing if in a casserole

filling if in turkey, chicken, etc. (it is a hold over from my dgma who lived in Pennsylvania)

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Re: What do you call it?

Postby DeeClutter » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:31 am

We too call it 'stuffing' if it's inside something and dressing when it's not.
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Re: What do you call it?

Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:49 am

I didn't pay attention to the poll and only voted for stuffing. But we also call it dressing. I think, growing up it was dressing, and now it is stuffing, probably due to the influence of TV.

I think regional differences get homogenized by TV.

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Re: What do you call it?

Postby Harriet » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:10 pm

Bingo. That's why I didn't know how to vote. It has been "stuffing" at our house ever since dd28 fell in love with Stove-top Stuffing when a little girl, and always called it that from then on, whether her grandmother's homemade or what. So I think my answer is skewed. I THINK my grandmother used to say, "dressing".


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