On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:39:26 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >, Doug Weller
> wrote:
>> Question -- you refer to dressing, as did my Birmingham Alabama friend.
>> Why do some people say dressing and others stuffing? I'm from Miami and
>> we said stuffing. Is it geographical?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Doug
>
>I grew up in MN with stuffing -- stuffed inside the birdy and cooked
>there. When TPTB decreed that practice to be often unsafe, it became
>dressing, cooked separately from birdy.

what, you want to live forever?

your pal,
blake