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Where is the Anual Dressing or Stuffing Question?

PhilaLady1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:52:24 GMT

Well, here it is 😁

I say stuffing. What about you?

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haddon9 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:54:01 GMT

Stuffing!

It must be where we are from. I grew up in the northeast and continue to live here.....NY, NJ & PA

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Puppy Galore — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:06:08 GMT

Dressing !

Mom always called it dressing, she was from Oklahoma.

Cornbread sausage dressing.

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catter70 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:02:28 GMT

I say both, depends on what comes out of my mouth at the time.

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lgfan — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:03:00 GMT

I have always called it stuffing. When I hear the word dressing I think of salad dressing not stuffing.

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Ainhisg — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:16:29 GMT

Here in SW Missouri, my family calls it dressing if it's baked separately from the turkey, and it's called stuffing if it's baked in the cavity of the turkey.

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Sooner — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:45:34 GMT

ONLY dressing! None of my family wanted to eat the one from inside the turkey. Our preference was crumbled cornbread, sauteed onions and celery and maybe mushrooms, cream of mushroom soup and broth mixed to wet it down, salt and pepper, mixed up and baked until crisp on top.

No bread, no eggs, no turkey drippings. We topped it with a light giblet gravy and loved every bite. We make it several times a year--so easy--to go with chicken.

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JYWilliams — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:55:43 GMT

I call it dressing when it's baked in a pan alone and stuffing when it's put inside the turkey cavity.

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kze — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:57:21 GMT

Dressing. However, no one I know ever put any in the turkey. It was always on the side.

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shoesnbags — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:02:46 GMT

NOLA native here and my family always called it dressing. Oyster dressing, yum! And it was always cooked inside the turkey so the turkey juices blended with the other flavors.

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Queen of shop — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:13:44 GMT

In our home we always called it filling. My dads whole Pennsylvania family called it that. Go figure. LOL

I did not grow up in Pa.but we adopted the name filling.

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Miss Pepsi — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:24:56 GMT

Originally from the Suburbs of Chicago, we called it stuffing and my mom always stuffed the bird as did I when I still cooked. We also had extra outside the bird. It was all stuffing to us.

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Meowingkitty — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:50:25 GMT

I call it stuffing in Arizona. My parent were from from Ohio but moved here in the 60's so we always called it stuffing.

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meallen616 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:57:06 GMT

Stuffing!

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Sweet Kitties — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:06:17 GMT

I stuff turkeys. I never thought of dressing it. Is it because it's naked & we can't let the children see?

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chlema — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:47:35 GMT

Growing up in Philly we called it dressing. Here in Delaware it's stuffing. Although it is not stuffed anymore, it's cooked in a crock pot.

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PhilaLady1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:04:45 GMT

Hi @chlema

I'm in my late 60's and lifelong Philadelphian. I've never called it dressing and never met anyone around here that does...until now😀

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chlema — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:07:35 GMT

@PhilaLady1 wrote:
Hi @chlema

I'm in my late 60's and lifelong Philadelphian. I've never called it dressing and never met anyone around here that does...until now😀

Pleased to meet ya @PhilaLady1 Well my parents were originally New York born & bred so maybe that's why they called it dressing lol.

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Carmie — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:09:26 GMT

@Queen of shop wrote:
In our home we always called it filling. My dads whole Pennsylvania family called it that. Go figure. LOL

I did not grow up in Pa.but we adopted the name filling.

I am in PA and it's always been filling at my house too.

Re: Where is the Anual Dressing or Stuffing Question?

Etoile308 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:18:58 GMT

To me dressing and stuffing are two different dishes with different ingredients.

Stuffing is the typical seasoned bread cube dish. Dressing is a poultry seasoned mashed potato, grated onion dish.