Stuffing or Dressing?

Did you know that dressing is only suppose to be called stuffing if you actually put it in a bird of some sort? So if you bake it in a pan or another way, it is called dressing. (Another bit of trivia I have picked up in my years!)
I will be making the stuffing/dressing (well dressing because it won't be cooked in a bird) for Thanksgiving for both my family and Jim's family this year.
Both my mom and Jim's mom made dressing differently, and when I hear others talk about their dressing, everyone does it a little differently.
My mom's had raisons, apples and onions along with the bread and hamburger. She put the hamburger in raw. The fruit definitely made it sweeter.
Jim's mom didn't put the fruit in and she fried her hambugar before she cooked it.
Both are good but I prefer my mom's and Jim prefer's his mother's.
Go figure.
So however you make your stuffing/dressing have a great Thanksgiving. Enjoy your family and friends. This is what it's all about.