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Roberta
 
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Default Terminology: stuffing vs. dressing

wrote:
> It's late at night and I can't sleep. So my mind is wandering to
> unimportant things. :-)
>
> I notice in the various Thanksgiving threads that some people
> use the term stuffing and some use dressing. I've always called it
> stuffing, as have most of the people I know. To me, dressing is
> something you put on salad.
>
> Is the difference in terminology a regional thing?
>
> ttfn,
> jan



I found an article somewhere on the internet last time this came up....I
can't find it now Anyway....it said that up until the 1800's it was
called stuffing and then people started calling it dressing because it
sounded more "proper". I personally call in the bird stuffing, out
dressing. *shrug*

Roberta (in VA)