The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1217147]

Once again brought to you by celticmom1967

I may not get a poll posted tomorrow, depends on what is going on in the morning.

Comments

[powersalad.livejournal.com]

ya put dressing on salad, ya stuff stuffing in a bird. Nuff said. :-)

[budsharpe.livejournal.com]

What he said!

[ms-dblk.livejournal.com]

Some folks don't stuff, they just cook it on the side. If the bird is greasy (like duck) you probably don't want to stuff it either.

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

UNdressing.

(just sayin)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Aside from agreeing that dressing belongs on a salad (or a Reuben), I've been told that if you cook it inside the bird it is stuffing and if you cook it separately it is technically dressing.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

I'd agree somewhat with silver's comment -- and it makes a certain amount of sense that stuffing would be on the inside and dressing on the outside (as with turkeys, so with humans).

Of course, Alton Brown will tell you that unless you're willing to go through surgical-grade safety procedures, you ought not ever to stuff anything into the bird that you actually intend to eat afterwards, because it usually doesn't get hot enough to kill salmonella until the outside of the bird is way overcooked and completely dried out.

I solve this problem by stuffing turkeys with assorted aromatics, like onions and apples cut into quarters, and throw all that crap out once the bird is cooked.

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

If you buy stuffing for a chair, then leave it in the closet for a year, it remains stuffing. If you then use it to decorate your model train landscape, does it become dressing? Or remain stuffing?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Nah. However you cook it it's stuffing. If not for the bird, for ME!

[celtic-catgirl.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Dressing is a liquid that goes on a salad. Stuffing is a bread-based solid that you bake inside of the bird. How can anyone get these two terms mixed up???

[ms-dblk.livejournal.com]

model train landscape - window dressing?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

It's apparently a regional thing.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Stuffing is Evil!

[kyril.livejournal.com]

Yes, undressing before stuffing is the usual, but not strictly necessary, practice.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I think the REAL one-on-one should be stuffing vs. potatoes!

[ericcoleman]

My favorite Gong Show moment was a Thanksgiving Day show where Jaye P Morgan gleefully informed the waiting world that she knew everything there was to be known about stuffing.