"TammyM" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:12:08 GMT, Reg > wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> >I once saw a report about demographic specific food marketing
> >that used stuffing/dressing as an example. It was said that in
> >order to better target African American families one company
> >began calling their boxed stuffing product dressing.
>
> Interesting. I used to call it stuffing -- as did my family. Then it
> occurred to me (a big DUH moment) that we don't stuff the bird with
> it, we cook it along side. I now call it dressing. FTR, my dressing
> is on the drier side, not like the wet goo stuffing I grew up with!
>
> TammyM

Hey Ho Tammy! My idiosyncratic terminology seems to agree with you. Stuffing
is stuffed; in a bird or in pork, etc. Dressing is cooked separately.

Charlie, in sunny (81F) Sandy Eggo