Janet Baraclough > wrote:
>from (Steve Pope) contains these words:
>> According to Helen Brown, originally "stuffing" was what you
>> fed the bird *before* killing it,
> She may have got miixed up with forcefeeding corn to geese to make
>their liver hugely fat ( to make pate de fois gras). Or, with feeding
>chickens corn in the weeks before killing, to fatten them up a bit.
Her example was "stuffing" turkeys by feeding them a walnut
diet for a few days.
Helen Brown was seldom mixed up about anything.
>Either way, corn is not stuffing, it passed through the bird's digestive
>tract and people do not eat any part of the digestive tract.
Certainly true.
Steve