We the Chefs credits this to the South's love of making meals into more formal affairs. While stuffing is traditionally found stuffed inside the turkey, dressing is made in its own pan (the larger, the better) and then placed alongside the Thanksgiving bird. It seems the South agreed and elected to do away with it as well (and seemingly did away with the actual act of stuffing on Thanksgiving too, just to be safe.) Get the latest from It's a Southern Thing by subscribing to our newsletter, where you'll find the latest videos, stories and merchandise.Īfter all, it isn't just the name that's different it's the way the dish is cooked and served. In the 1850s, Victorians came up with the term dressing to replace stuffing because they found the latter to be a bit, shall we say, distasteful, according to Food and Wine. At times throughout history, mothers have replaced “true loves” as the gift givers.) (We’re not the first to do this, actually. We changed “my true love” to “my mama,” because, well, mama is the heart of everything. To make the carol more relatable, we wrote the Twelve Days of Southern Christmas, just for y’all. READ MORE: What if Christmas songs were more Southern? And then there’s the food – we’re crazy for any casserole made with a can of cream-of-something soup and we love to see what kinds of things we can suspend in gelatin. For starters, it’s hot here.Ī look inside the "12 Days of Southern Christmas" Kelly Kazek Here in the South, Christmas is a little different. It spans from the day after Christmas through Epiphany on January 6, which was the amount of time between the birth of Christ and the arrival of the wise men.Ī lot has changed since the poem/carol first appeared, including many things about Southern culture. READ MORE: Remembering Southern Christmases at Granny'sĪlthough the items mentioned in the song are not religious, the 12 Days of Christmas is a period of time in Christian theology. When players forgot the lyrics, they would “forfeit” a kiss or other prize to their opponent. Historians believe it was a memory-and-forfeits game, in which players would see how many verses they could recall. The verses first appeared in an 1780 children’s book called Mirth With-out Mischief, according to. It turns out, the song was once a type of game, back before TV and internet and, you know, fun. So why is this song a beloved, or at least tolerated, classic? , where you'll find the latest videos, stories and merchandise. Get the latest from It's a Southern Thing by subscribing to our newsletter, where you'll find the latest videos, stories and merchandise. Perhaps that’s because it was written in the eighteenth century, back when having a partridge in a pear tree equaled dinner and dessert. We admit we wouldn't turn up our noses at five golden rings but much of the traditional song “The 12 Days of Christmas” is not relatable to the average person.
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