Dressing

Dressing with oysters?  After 33 years, I'm lucky that I don't mind dressing with my wife.  I used to warn her to close her eyes during the scary parts.

I can't think of anything more disgusting...ugh!

Oysters?  Ick.  They look too much like snot.

I'll take my dressing untainted with Bivalvia, thank you. 

I guess from reading the responses that dressing is another word for stuffing.  Where are you from?  Is that a regional thing?  Also when did oysters become part of the Thanksgiving tradition?  I thought we were supposed to eat turkey. 

I am sooooo confused!

I miss a lot of food, but there's not much I actually feel sad about missing.  Stuffing at Thanksgiving is one of them. 

Oh no you di'n't.

Stuffing acts like a big ol' Salmonella sponge. If you don't cook it enough, it'll kill your guests. And the only way to cook it enough is by overcooking the bird. So if you stuff the bird, you either get dead guests or a dry bird. And nobody wants either of those things.

Stuffing is in the bird (read other post...bad idea). Dressing is cooked on the side. Oysters are a regional thing. I think the New Englanders (or something) fancy them.

I don't know about New Englanders, but in the midwest we eat it up (at least at my house)!

Maybe you just don't know her guests....

I dunno.  We've eaten it that way for a long time.  I guess we've just been lucky.

Ok, thanks this helps with the dressing vs. stuffing.  I am a dressing guy myself.

And, I don't think oysters are a New England thing as that's where I grew up.  I will blame it on credit it to the MidWest. 

They may use a different kind of oyster...