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[BirkiLady]

From the midwest (North of the MDL). If you put it in the bird, it's Stuffing. My mom did that for years. If you bake it in a seperate dish, it's Dressing. I began doing that many years ago. My MIL cooked her stuffing beside the turkey in all the grease from the bird.  She called it breading. It was awful. 

[Carmie]

We call it stuffing, but my mother often called it Filling.  

[Moonchilde]

On the West Coast, when I was a child until I was in my 20s, it was stuffing. Everyone called it that and yes, back in the day turkeys were stuffed and the dressing was baked inside.

Over time and with changing customs and traditions, for many reasons people stopped cooking it IN the turkey (much better not, IMO), and it just kind of “slid” (I have no idea exactly when) into being called “dressing” more than “stuffing” - though note, the Mrs Cubbison’s box says STUFFING where I live - though apparently it will also say Dressing, presumably depending on where it’s sold.

I think most people I know use both words pretty equally.

[Carmie]

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@kcladyz wrote:

To me the most frustrating war on wards is  pop vs soda vs fountain drinks

In Pittsburgh  PA  it was pop  .... when I moved to Kansas City  it was called fountain drinks or soda.  To me a fountain drink is beer on tap so I was really confised to see  fountain drinks on signs in front of gas stations. I had no idea it was pop ( aka soda) . What was a mind blower  was at that time  gas stations  were only that  not a store  back home (I moved in the 80s)  and omg out here  they  were like mini marts that sold cases of beer. In PA  we had to go to a "State Store"  to buy alcholic breverages or we would buy packs of beer directly from a bar. It was unherd of to be able to just walk into a gas station or grocery store to buy beer.  I thought I moved into a magical foreign country LOL

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I am from the Harrisburg area of PA and we call it soda.  A fountain drink would be a soda that comes from a machine that mixes the syrup with carbonated water...like you would get at McD, instead of in a bottle or can.

I have never heard of beer being called a fountain drink and my family owned a bar.  We had beer on tap.

What a difference a few miles make.

[Moonchilde]

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@Carmie wrote:

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@kcladyz wrote:

To me the most frustrating war on wards is  pop vs soda vs fountain drinks

In Pittsburgh  PA  it was pop  .... when I moved to Kansas City  it was called fountain drinks or soda.  To me a fountain drink is beer on tap so I was really confised to see  fountain drinks on signs in front of gas stations. I had no idea it was pop ( aka soda) . What was a mind blower  was at that time  gas stations  were only that  not a store  back home (I moved in the 80s)  and omg out here  they  were like mini marts that sold cases of beer. In PA  we had to go to a "State Store"  to buy alcholic breverages or we would buy packs of beer directly from a bar. It was unherd of to be able to just walk into a gas station or grocery store to buy beer.  I thought I moved into a magical foreign country LOL

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I am from the Harrisburg area of PA and we call it soda.  A fountain drink would be a soda that comes from a machine that mixes the syrup with carbonated water...like you would get at McD, instead of in a bottle or can.

I have never heard of beer being called a fountain drink and my family owned a bar.  We had beer on tap.

What a difference a few miles make.

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My definition of a fountain drink is the same as yours. Made originally at a soda fountain, then later diners and drive-ins, by a machine that mixed the syrup and the carbonated water. I presume because originally an old-fashioned soda fountain was the only place where you could get it.

[libbyannE]

It was always " dressing" when I was growing up in St. Louis. But it doesn't matter to me, one way or the other.  Do we care?

[VanSleepy]

Have always called it stuffing, but I don't stuff it anymore.  We don't cook the turkey in the oven - I'd still be stuffing it if we did.

[TenderMercies]

Giblet stuffing!

[Bri36]

We call it dressing.   And it’s never made inside the turkey.   

[VanSleepy]

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@TenderMercies wrote:

Giblet stuffing!

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I eat those separately!