What is Thanksgiving stuffing, and why is it also 'dressing'?

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Thought I was the only one

[@toothgnash]

I had never heard it called 'dressing' except in the context of my grandmother's joke "At the beginning of the meal its called dressing, midway through its filling, and by the end its stuffing."

[@bruhbruh7886]

Oh thats actually very clever

[@chris41952]

Dressing is ubiquitous in the South. It is cornbread based and mixed with heavy doses of sage, egg, and served with giblet gravy. It is NEVER cooked in the turkey.

[@user-tg3jl1mt4e]

@@chris41952 No one cooks it inside the turkey in the North either but we still call it stuffing. No reason to change the name just bc the method of cooking it evolved

[@chris41952]

@@user-tg3jl1mt4e it's not just the cooking method; it's the ingredients. Southern dressing is nothing like bread stuffing. Nothing in this video is even close.

[@absalomdraconis]

@@chris41952 : That all depends strongly on the family- with my bunch, we commonly have two or three. As for dressing vs stuffing, the dressing likely started as a distinct thing from stuffing, with stuffing being inside the bird, and dressing being in a large pan (ideally under the bird, to catch the drippings).

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[@andersbenke3596]

As a Swede, the word "dressing" gets confusing in context, since in Swedish "dressing" means "stuff we put on food, usually semi-liquid, like Ranch".

[@WolfeWrangle]

Dressing also means that in the US. We will refer to things as "Ranch dressing" or "Italian dressing" and it's the liquid stuff. Generally, we distinguish it by saying "thanksgiving dressing" or "cornbread dressing".

[@harrymalm]

For me, dressing has always meant a vinegar, olive oil and salt emulsion that you put on salad (svenne här också)

[@linusyootasteisking]

it makes sense, like Adam said, that dressing generally has come to mean "things that you put on top/supplement of the main course", that is, a condiment. so it is natural that the term stuck to different things in different places, especially before the internet. (svenne här också)

[@cliftonmcnalley8469]

In the Southern U.S. we typically eat "dressing" with our turkey at Thanksgiving and Christmas. (Dressing is also served on top of salad.) Dressing is baked in a separate pan and stuffing is baked inside the bird.

[@user-ze7sj4qy6q]

@@WolfeWrangle i usually say stuffing more than dressing, just based on where im from, but id add that if i were to use dressing and also my sense of how other ppl use it is that you can distinguish "salad dressing" from "turkey/thanksgiving dressing" but usually from context its p clear what you mean so u just say dressing in either context

[@alienpotato1834]

Personally, i like to eat dry bread and veggies, then stuff myself into turkey. I really love that maximum flavor.

[@mirillis6083]

*"That maximum flavor"*

[@frgwyn3760]

I like to feed the turkey bread and veggies and stuff myself in the turkey

[@treyslider6954]

"Why Alien Potato stuffs himself, instead of his turkey"

[@Tommy9834]

I season my cutting board, with white wine, and stuff that into my turkey, and use the drippings from that to make the best tasting gravy.

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Talk about efficiency

[@JustinY.]

Imagine going to a Thanksgiving dinner with Adam and he starts a dinner table debate about the definition of stuffing when you whip out the turkey

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[@godlyoblivion]

Imagine going to an Adam Ragusea video and Justin Y. says a joke about Adam starting a dinner table debate about the definition of stuffing when you whip out the turkey.

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I’m always so pleasantly surprised that I get such an amazing explainer along with a recipe in these video.

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[@pirate6616]

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[@Silverwind87]

It still counts as stuffing, it just stuffs the human rather than the bird.

[@mcdonaldworker4948]

*i don’t like it*

[@user-mc8lc2wv3i]

Hold up

[@wildnick7717]

Stuffs into the mouth, right? *Stuffs into the mouth, right?*

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Heaven forbid!

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[@vixen1143]

I'm from the UK and never heard it called dressing. It's interesting knowing differences like this, even if it's quite regional even in the US. Growing up we had stuffing every weekend with our Sunday roast dinner. We use a box mix of sage and onion. We always cooked it separately from the chicken partly because we don't always have chicken. You add water and butter to the box mix and cook it in a dish in the oven, sometimes like Christmas the stuffing would be rolled in to balls and cooked in the oven. We always have stuffing on the dry side and some times add in sausage meat to the stuffing mix, which tastes amazing. My brother like a to add chopped walnuts that tastes great aswell. Yourkshire puddings are also a must for a roast dinner in the UK.

[@WhichDoctor1]

Same here. As a brit its always been stuffing to me. Although I wander if this is another case of america holding onto traditional english words that the UK moved on from.

[@user-ze7sj4qy6q]

damn stuffing balls sounds nice, one time i had some left over and made waffles from it, that was also really nice

[@asturias0267]

My grandma makes a stuffing with sausage and dried cranberries. I highly recommend adding cranberries to your stuffing sometime just to try it out. Who knows, you might like it.

[@Bdubs-no7pe]

"A mass of wet bread." Thanks Adam. That's really what makes me want to eat stuffing this Thanksgiving.

[@JonathanRiverafrickinnice555]

Mmmm, delicious.

[@pennyfarting]

My mom would mix some instant mashed potato flakes into the stuffing to give it a firmer, silkier texture. It's really good, you should try it!

[@jasonslade6259]

Hey, moistening dry things with a combination of animal fat and water is a tried and true cooking method! That goes for bread too.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Eh, it's all going to turn into poop anyway.

[@recoveringsoul755]

I prefer drier dressing. the soggy stuff in a bird is gross

[@Jonathanhsax]

Adam, my family has an amazing Chinese-American recipe for a rice stuffing that would blow your mind. It's essentially a sticky rice stuffing with Chinese sausage, ground pork, green onions, shiitake mushrooms, water chestnuts. It's incredible with some turkey gravy over the top. Also delicious the next morning if you flatten it like a pancake, fry it up crisp in some vegetable oil, garnish with a little soy sauce. AMAZING.

[@Kimby02]

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[@marg200039]

I can practically taste that description 😩

[@Jonathanhsax]

@@marg200039 it's honestly the best part of the meal. Bread stuffing is terrible. Rice stuffing is the best. Edited the original comment to include ground pork.

[@rollychairs]

This sounds awesome! But what is Chinese sausage?

[@Jonathanhsax]

@@rollychairs Lap Cheong, roughly pronounced "lop chong" is a dry sausage. It has a slightly sweet taste. You can buy it at any Asian grocery store.

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"I sharpened my knife recently and it cuts great" also a bandaid on the finger... yikes

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A sharp knife is a safe knife

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@@Ananamitron - My Misen knife sliced through the tip of my thumb and the nail--had to get it stitched up.

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The bandaid on the finger might be *why* he sharpened the knife. Much more likely to have a cutting accident with a dull knife.

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[@archangel5627]

Because of my French background, my mother and grandmother always made their stuffing with little to almost no bread. Basically it’s equal parts ground pork, veal, beef, with mirepoix, minced garlic, fresh thyme, paprika, fresh parsley for color, a blend of chicken and beef stock, Cognac, salt, pepper, and a touch of freshly made toasted bread crumb. Just enough to bind everything together with a handful of oven roasted chopped chestnuts or sometimes walnuts. My family’s stuffing is absolutely delicious! It’s nothing like the American bread stuffing and we always make as a side dish. My family and I never actually stuff the bird.

[@user-ze7sj4qy6q]

wow that sounds extremely different but also really nice , i doubt ill ever remember to come back ro this comment at an appropriate time but i would theoretically rlly like to try to make this one time

[@jakemitchell1671]

Born and raised in Mississippi. I was 25 years old the first time I ever tasted "bread dressing." My wife's family is from Michigan. My family ALWAYS made CORNBREAD dressing. That was almost 30 years ago, and as sincerely as I've tried to love the bread dressing...well...I just cannot make the transition. Dressing/stuffing made from cornbread is just massively superior TO ME in taste, texture, and that "X factor" we all associate with the things we were raised with.

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

I have Family in the southern states and they have cornbread stuffing. I don't like it nearly as well as the northern style.

[@jakemitchell1671]

@@TheLionAndTheLamb777 It has so much to do with how and where one is raised. I will say this, though: IMO good cornbread dressing is harder to make than good "northern style." So chances are pretty good you haven't had some of the best cornbread dressing. My mom's is extraordinary, but when one of my cousins made it I didn't like it at all. Most people underestimate how much liquid is needed so it comes out dry and bland. My mom's was always super moist and incredibly delicious.

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that ending was fantastic, lol

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He's educating the masses about musical theatre with the reference

[@XcOM9871]

One of my favourite dishes is to coat pork chop in flour, egg, and stuffing mix, pan fry with sliced apples till golden and then finish them off in the oven. Love the little shop of horrors reference at the end lol

[@thefuzzize2975]

you mind sending me that recipe please?

[@motorbreath-4172]

@@thefuzzize2975 pork chop Flour Egg Stuffing mix Sliced apple Fry until golden and finish off in the oven

[@zambalic1]

Being from the Middle-east, we cracked wheat and raisins for stuffing.

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Man, I just finished a marathon of Lord of the Rings, and thought you said, "being from Middle-Earth."

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[@lq3552]

Where r u from? In Palestine we stuff it with rice ground lamb and onion

[@бронза.вафля.конус]

@@lq3552 that sounds better than bread

[@izuela7677]

In Sweden we have something called "dopp i grytan" at Christmas. It is also soggy bread. It's made to go, though. Basically slices of bread dipped for a few seconds in home baked ham juice.

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[@kvass_rodich]

Adam, thank you so much for this video. I'm from Russia and this thing called "stuffing" in US always confused me. But now it's finally clear.

[@Khristafer]

When I was a kid, raised in the South, I always thought stuffing was made from dried bread and dressing was made from cornbread. That was the line 😂

[@rdizzy1]

Yeah we still call stuffing made with cornbread, "cornbread stuffing", here in the North, and in the West as well.

[@zacharymiddleton9530]

I make all my dressing with cornbread, and stuffing if you call it that,

[@WolfeWrangle]

I was raised in the north and I legit thought the same thing. As well as my mom and other family members.

[@marloweirvine6740]

Gottaa love a corn bread "dressing" - and I grew up in Canada.

[@ryanfarquhar2561]

Was just about post a very similar comment. I thought the same and I know many of my family uses this as the contrast of the two.

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Adam: I just sharpened my knife, it cuts great!" Also Adam: Bandaged finger during narration So it would seem! :)

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He actually killed the assumption because someone else made the same meme 😂

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Likely scenario is he nicked himself before sharpening as dull knives are way more dangerous.

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*"putting things inside meat is a very old practice"*

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as old as mammals

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including meat inside meat

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"stretching your meat"

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"You just jam it in there and it absorbs a lot of the goodness"

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[@michaelzero3626]

Here in Georgia, dressing is generally describing corn bread dressing, but stuffing would still be primarily normal white bread. I've personally never heard them used interchangeably. Dressing was always corn bread dressing (basically a corn bread based stuffing made outside of the bird), and stuffing was the white bread stuff.

[@malloc5014]

Thank you Adam I live in the UK I am doing thanksgiving for my American Girlfriend. She told US stuffing is different to UK stuffing (a lot more pork in my stuffing) . When I asked her how to make it she said she always bought the packet stuff. Thank you for a quick and easy method!

[@rayy__7630]

I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS REFFRENCE THERE AT THE END

[@harbinger_2791]

To my Grandparents, who were from Tennessee, stuffing is wheat bread based and dressing is cornbread based.

[@fwizzybee42]

This is how I think of it as well, but I was never sure if i was just a correlattiton because the only family I knew that used corn bead was from he south

[@michelhv]

Fun fact, in French this thing is called “farce” which is also the word for joke, though they might not be related. We use “farcir” to describe the action of stuffing a bird, and “fourrer” for the action of stuffing pastry. Now guess which one also means filling a body cavity? You’re right: both, because we’re Pepe le Pew.

[@pennyfarting]

"farce" means joke because back in the 16th century, the word was used to refer to short theatrical comedic interludes that were "stuffed" between the acts of longer dramas.

[@fordhouse8b]

We have the term forcemeat in English, which is derived from the french farce and farcir. Swedish also has the related word färs, as in köttfärs (ground meat).

[@bluebirdsigma]

So.... literally, pardon your French?

[@headaqe1708]

If you put the bread in the oven on “warm mode” (170-200f) you can get pretty good stale bread after a couple hours with no risk of toasting the bread. I’ve done it with whole loaves before lol Use convection mode if you have it.

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[@TheSteam02]

Me a Chinese-American who has never had a traditional Thanksgiving meal: Interesting...

[@kvnyay]

Turkey is overrated. Peking duck and cha siu is 10/10 for Thanksgiving.

[@timitonagain]

I'm Russian-American. Welcome to the club!

[@foxwaffles]

Sameeee I always had dumplings from scratch (dad born and raised in Harbin)

[@ariwang8613]

@@kvnyayDefinitely. Peking duck is so much more flavorful and juicier.

[@austinthrowsstuff]

stuffing sounds super weird but if you had it done good its really yummy

[@paulportes6441]

As an Asian outside of America who has no idea what you guys mean every time you say those words on November, thank you for clearing things up

[@LeakyTrees]

Thanksgiving is the day a year where we spread a lie about how the pilgrims who came to america treated the american indians, and then ignore the genocide that occurred after, and thank each other for meaningless things.

[@TatharNuar]

My parents refused to make stuffing even though I love it. I haven't had it in over a decade and this video was hard to watch without eagerly looking for that recipe.

[@user-ze7sj4qy6q]

do it! look for a recipe! stuffing is great and every once in a while i remember i can eat it outside of holidays too and im always v glad when that happens

[@marloweirvine6740]

Great video. It explains why I was taught to put the "stuffing" in a single layer of cheesecloth in the bird. When the white meat was almost ready we pulled the stuffing out and threw it in a hot pan to finish cooking, dry out, and get a crispy crust.

[@comradecid]

it's also worth noting that long ago, not everyone had an oven in their home; rather, many had to rent the use of a local oven in order to bake their holiday meal - thus, packing as much food as possible into a single dish baked in a single go would be advantageous

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Tom Scott is prescriptivelly against prescriptive grammar. Ironic

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@@SKyrim190 He could save others from prescriptivism, but not himself.

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@Savya Acharya not from a linguist.

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[@603xxg]

I’ve lived in Louisiana my whole life and we’ve always said stuffing. That being said, your reasoning for why more people might say dressing down here sounds incredibly plausible.

[@fordhouse8b]

Maybe that map is inverted, and the reason more people google dressing down there is because they don’t know what the hell it is, and are trying to find out?!?

[@jaminwaite3867]

I’m from KY and we usually say dressing (we never ate the in the bird version)

[@kokofan50]

The Southern dialect has a lot of archaic features.

[@fordhouse8b]

@@kokofan50 Maybe, but this is not one of them.

[@Markle2k]

The moment he said the article was on the "History" Channel website, I began to doubt its veracity.

[@themakeupism]

Adam: Why am I saying stuffing and not dressing? Me: Why do people mix things with mayo and call it a “salad”?

[@justanotherweirdo11]

@@sim-nu9nf egg salad too.

[@minushuman]

With most menacing accent "You have something against Russian Salad"

[@minushuman]

Also we have seliodka pod shuboy - basically potato salad with beetroot and herring

[@representin614]

Mayo is just salad dressing. Oil, vinegar, a little egg. Why do you put salad dressing on your sandwich? 😆

[@frgwyn3760]

Fries are actually salads then. Now I don’t have to worry about my health because I eat a lot of salad.

[@purplealice]

I always hated stuffing. And once I grew up and got expected to make Thanksgiving dinner. One relative wanted chestnuts in the stuffing, one wanted applesauce, one wanted sausage. So I gave up and invented a seasoned combination of brown rice, Wehani (russet colored) rice, and wild rice. Everybody loved it!

[@HyperactiveNeuron]

My family is from the Cincinnati area and we had both. Specifically, "stuffing" was that which was actually stuffed into the bird and "dressing" was cooked in a pan because you couldn't fit enough in the bird to feed our massive family... Like about 2 dozen at Thanksgiving dinner. It's pure chaos. Christmas isn't much different. It wasn't uncommon to have 2 different kinds of "dressing" too. There was always the typical "dressing" and then there was another that had oysters in it... I wasn't a fan of that one but couldn't get enough of the regular stuff.

[@aidansilvia2663]

That meat that was roasting over the open flame looked really good.

[@jameswalsh1391]

This dude’s content is consistently amazing. Most slept on youtuber for sure.

[@WilliamPitcher]

'Slept on' ??

[@jgood005]

@@WilliamPitcher Slept on, as in people are "sleeping on" or unaware of his talents

[@603xxg]

@6:17 Thank you so much Adam. Easily the most informative part of the video.

[@numberboxgamer]

Generally in Georgia what I've heard as the difference is that Stuffing is made with stale wheat bread and Dressing is made with stale cornbread. There is also some argument over stuffing in the bird vs. dressing in the pan, as you mentioned, but everyone I know who grew up here differentiates between the cornbread and wheat bread as the base ingredient. However, it is common to refer to it as "cornbread dressing" as to avoid confusion with "them yankees o'r yonder".

[@maxcrss2845]

I love to use my very large roasting pan and put relatively dry stuffing mix on the bottom. The butter and bacon and all the stuff I use in my Turkey melts down and moistens it, caramelizes, and gives it an amazing flavor. I love super moist stuffing, but my mother doesn’t, so I also slightly tilt the pan by putting a bit of aluminum foil under one side. :)

[@bostonceltics727]

Love the Pepperidge farm stuffing mix, that’s what my mom used!

[@Kenneth_Fishing]

Adams bread: doesn’t dry or rot fast My bread: “screw you”

[@ericbao7740]

This video is stuffing me with information, I'm very thankful for it

[@tonkaGuy888]

Everyone probably has their own stuffing hacks. Mine: (in addition to the classic mirepoix) mushroom, diced apple, and some corn. Umami, sweetness, color, texture and deliciousness.

[@karlkutac1800]

I never really thought about the distinction between stuffing and dressing, but I like the semantic difference - seems to me to be a useful difference.

[@keithkilner4899]

“You’re looking for ways of stretching your meat”...😐

[@ionehkontehdiabo7627]

😂😂😂😂

[@marshallsuber3346]

My oh my😂,steaching your meat! If "stuffing" gave our mothers the vapors .... Ps: Mom wouldn't have called what you made either as there was no cornbread 😂😌. Blessings from New Orleans.

[@eac-ox2ly]

Lmaoooo

[@curtisthomas2670]

A weight hanging from it works, over time.....

[@marshallsuber3346]

@@curtisthomas2670 very funny. Point well taken😂😂

[@VirulentWalrus]

OMG Stuffing is my FAVORITE THANKSGIVING FOOD

[@karu6111]

fact checking, academia, science and food, what a weird combination. Did anybody expect this when they watched that New-york style pizza at home video and subbed? Neither did I. What a gem of a youtube channel.

[@tigereyemusic]

So. My parents during my childhood would make sausage stuffing and stuff it between the skin and the meat of the breast. The fat from the sausage kept the breast moist, the cavity of the bird was still open (apart from perhaps a small onion/clementine with cloves that would pretty much disintegrate within the first 20min of cooking), and the last place to reach the right temperature was the middle of the breast meat, meaning it was still juicy when it came to carving time.

[@kriswarren2469]

Where I'm from in Canada, stuffing is like how you are presenting it, made with bread and either stuffed or on its own. Dressing was made a little differently and had mashed potatoes as well as summer savoury added to it and was always served on the side

[@callmeval3542]

In my family, we have a mixture of bread and non-sweet cornbread as our "dressing."

[@demonbirb936]

Me, a Canadian who celebrated Thanksgiving a month ago: when is this gonna end!!!

[@QuincelSC]

As a Brit I was surprised to learn that US turkey stuffing is mostly bread based. Completely different to UK stuffing, even for turkeys at Christmas. Possible future video topic?

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

Most British ones also have a base of bread. Maybe it's just less so? I'm not too sure as in truth I only really use the packet stuff.

[@jaminwaite3867]

Also US dressing is often made with cornbread...that’s how I grew up

[@QuincelSC]

@@Oscar-vv6dn I may be biased by how my family does it, but our family recipe has very little bread in it and the Delia Smith recipe online (and does it get more British than Delia Smith? I think not) has no bread in. Possible other Brits do it differently though.

[@Oscar-vv6dn]

@@QuincelSC I imagine the traditional stuff has bread in it, but the more modern stuff doesn't and is quicker and just as good. Depends on the family I reckon.

[@Sprecherfuchs]

@@QuincelSC My family use a Delia recipe for stuffing and the bulk is made up of stale bread and sausage meat. I was surprised by the lack of even a mention of sausage meat here

[@ashleylala4293]

Here is my dream stuffing: homemade cornbread croutons or the ones from the Whole Foods bakery, chicken stock, turkey giblets, loads of butter, egg, chestnuts, Granny Smith apples, dried tart cherries, dried sage, thyme, black pepper, lightly caramelized onion. The chestnuts and cherries are crucial for me. The sweet stuffing with the salty bird and gravy is just a magical combo for me.

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It is amazing how seamlessly you went from history to recipe to sponsor all in the span of two minutes

[@m.s.a.s9194]

Adams son: hey dad what’s that Adam:

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*Yako's World song plays*

[@elusive_reverie]

I remember when someone at the dinner party had an allergic reaction because my mom put walnuts in the stuffing.

[@fordhouse8b]

She didn’t use enough walnuts.

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[@jeffreyxu6430]

Normal Thanksgiving gathering: Let's talk about politics Adam: Let's talk about the origins of stuffing

[@nowdefunctchannel6874]

Given he has a background in journalism, hes probably sick of politics

[@Froge4291]

I would gladly talk about the history of stuffing than politics

[@imari2305]

Great explanation Adam. I call it stuffing as well being a northerner (New York) but my mother was from South Carolina and they called it dressing. I also use both terminology interchangeably. This year I made an all herb bread stuffing/dressing from scratch; normally I mix both herb and cornbread together but this year I just wanted an all bread herb stuffing. I have been known to use both Stove Top and Peppridge Farms brands as well.

[@annek1226]

In my family, ours was always potato stuffing! Every Thanksgiving there were three potato dishes on the table. Potato stuffing from the turkey, candy sweet potatoes and then of course the masked potatoes! Yum!

[@Salty_Nutella]

Me: Can I get some stuffing? Adam: *ASKS PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION WHETHER STUFFING IS STUFFING OR DRESSING*

[@IVIRnathanreilly]

It has to just be stuffing because that is its name. If not, then why isn't it called stuffed?

[@sucoono]

A few years ago I hosted a thanks giving for a few friends, one was gluten intolerant. So I used rice (I think it was a long time ago) bread instead of normal. I don't know if its true for all non gluten breads but it was crumbly enough straight out of the bag. turned out perfect i think i used 2 eggs though

[@b9y]

We call it stuffing in the UK, but ours is actually quite different! It uses breadcrumbs so when cooked it's quite crunchy on top and very mushy, yet kinda dry. This looks a lot nicer. Sometimes we'll have stuffing with meat in which you cook in a separate dish, and we'll have pork joints / chicken / turkey with stuffing already in to buy in most if not all supermarkets, etc.

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[@allencribb4944]

Adam, Here in the Southeast US, "Dressing" when prepared, is more wet than stuffing before being baked, and usually comes out a little more dense after baking. Stuffing can also have sweet ingredients like fruit, nuts and berries in some countries. Also, in the Southeast US, dressing has cornbread or biscuits mixed in along with the bread. Sometimes Giblets and Chopped Hard Boiled Eggs are added as well. However, we still say "dressing" even when it's stuffed in the bird.

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[@kimsmoke17]

Mom’s side of the family is Eastern European. Roasted Birds get ‘stuffed’ with apples, onions, garlic, and oranges…

[@DrRiq]

Sounds good, till you get to the oranges (!?!)

[@SweetOdinsRavens]

@@DrRiq if you've never tries oranges inside poultry, you're missing out big time. Citrus goes absolutely amazingly with turkeys and chickens

[@rdizzy1]

@@DrRiq Sounds good, until there is no stuffing on the table.

[@centuryeggcongee]

After 29 years of living, this is the first I hear stuffing called dressing. Dressing is what I put on a salad. Give me that stuffing.

[@jaminwaite3867]

I rarely say stuffing. But we mostly use them interchangeably

[@bruhbruh7886]

As someone who never had turkey or stuffing, i have no idea what it tastes like

[@fnjesusfreak]

My family referred to it as dressing.

[@rdizzy1]

My grandmother used to call miracle whip "salad dressing", how about that.

[@fnjesusfreak]

@@rdizzy1 It does say that, last I checked, on the label.

[@MjikThize]

We make our stuffing(dressing) slightly dry but form them into balls about the size of a baseball, then bake the stuffing balls. This makes for a lot of nice crispy bits on these little serving sized stuffing balls. They're also great for freezing if you have leftovers.(not very often though) and they're great for slicing and putting on a turkey sandwich with a bit of cranberry sauce. 🤪

[@m41r34d]

I literally have stuffing every Sunday cause my dad makes us roast dinner...

[@propheticrain-maker1486]

British life

[@NovikNikolovic]

"I don't need sleep. I need answers!!!"

[@jessstuart7495]

My brain is full.

[@sukabluka]

Do you remember the stuffing wars? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

[@elamen2734]

In turkey, we stuff the turkey or the chicken with flavoured rice called "iç pilav" we put chestnuts and currants in it and we cook it with beef stock, onions and butter, sometimes with a little olive oil.

[@goularteschroer6257]

In Brazil's south region, the tradition is to fill Turkey with farofa, toasted cassava flour that is consumed regularly in the diet of Brazilians, however it gets the addition of raisins, bacon, and Turkey organs in some cases, every family has it's own recipe.

[@Gaburieru0728]

damn so we're not getting "why i season my oven, not my meat"

[@marcussong5864]

Me: Hey guys, can we make turkey for thanksgiving? My family: Ok. Also my family: **Brings a chicken**

[@m..w6877]

Dang

[@melatonin12]

Chicken tastes better than turkey tho

[@marcussong5864]

@@melatonin12 Guess so

[@Castle3179]

@@melatonin12 Yes, but when turned into gravy turkey is great. The problem with turkey is that it's very dry white meat but if you cover it in gravy it counter acts that.

[@melatonin12]

@@Castle3179 chickens are also much easier to manage than turkey. I would rather roast 2 chickens than 1 big turkey.

[@ebinjoephilipphilip2168]

Hey, remember, stuffing used to be called dressing. Pepperidge farm remembers

[@TheGameware]

UK sage and onion stuffing is a classic. We all get it from a box, and I've seen it cooked outside of the box and then shoved into the bird. Always served on the side as a big lump of stuffing, here in the north (dont know about south ) we stuff it into our yorkshire puddings on the plate.

[@trelard]

Stuffing is stuffing, whether it's inside or out. I'll give your oven recipe a try for this Christmas though, as Thanksgiving has already passed where I am this year.

[@TononiaWorld]

I would call it "Garnish", or "Compliment"

[@memo50123]

the legend says if you are this early you get a heart

[@oscallibur5597]

The what- explain?

[@grant1133]

I was really distracted by the multi-coloured thing on the wall behind him, it made me think it was some kind of native American flag.

[@FormerRuling]

Hmm, here close to you - northwest of Atl we use both terms, but to describe different things. They aren't used interchangeably. Stuffing is the mixture of dried bread with veggies, whether its in or out of the turkey. Dressing is specifically a subset of stuffing that uses cornbread instead of dried white bread, and it's always prepared separate from the bird. We fix both on Thanksgiving.

[@tyzerro]

i always grew up with stove top stuffing from my mom on a semi-regular basis but on thanksgiving my grandmother has always made a cornbread dressing where in she cooks a big loaf of cornbread in her cast iron skillet and just crumbles all but the bottom crust (she lets my papa eat that) and the various other ingredients into a sage heavy dressing before baking it in a sheet pan. she prepares this with a "giblet" gravy made from the drippings of the turkey but without using any actual giblets, hence the quotes.

[@ranulfdoswell]

In the UK, everybody calls it stuffing, and it's almost always made using powder from a packet that you just add water to. I've never seen any with carrots and onions added, although the packet flavour is normally sage and onion. To us Brits, dressing is almost always the thing you add to a salad, made from oil and vinegar (and whatever else you want, like feta cheese or avocado, but it's hard to know where that stops being the dressing and becomes the salad!)

[@ruthwikalamuru]

Me who is a vegetarian but still watches everything like this: mmH intresting

[@ryanhall8770]

Yeah me too lol

[@ryanhall8770]

I still find all recipes interesting even if I can’t eat it

[@manana6845]

Boring veggie

[@dadankracoon4060]

What is this strange thing i believe its meat

[@brass7059]

Shit i thought i was the only one

[@Berkana]

You had me laughing out loud at 8:17 about the term "stuffing" conjuring scandalous images of an object penetrating a body between its legs.

[@justinwinsbro7770]

I live in the south we Collett dressing if it’s made in a pan by itself if it is made inside of the turkey then it is called stuffing or if it is made on the stove top it is called stuffing! Dressing also has different ingredients in it then a regular stuffing does

[@Aethelgeat]

Growing up, it was always cornbread (no sugar, no wheat) dressing, both in the turkey and in a baking dish. It was stuffing insofar as the dressing that was stuffed into the turkey, but indifferent use would apply to the 'stuffing' that was never stuffed. We also occasionally ate the Stovetop product, but never at Thanksgiving with a turkey. It was a convenience food, not a holiday food. I liked the flavour, but not the texture (soggy bread) as much. Ironically, a number of my friends who grew up with wheat bread stuffing/dressing don't care for cornbread dressing because of the texture.

[@skullrider56YT]

"Putting things inside meats is a very old practice"

[@pantopia3518]

Bonk

[@justanotherweirdo11]

stab stab

[@Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF]

which includes stuffing meat inside meat

[@cannonball7850]

Oh heavens forbid (also someone more famous already said this)

[@erunion2]

Literally was scrolling just to look for this comment. Thank you. Because if someone didn't say it, I was gonna