"Hot dish" or "casserole?" Which do you say?

[raccoon]

Last night I was reading a Hannah Swensen mystery, and she and her sisters were discussing this.

Hannah lives in fictional Lake Eden, MN.

I thought everybody said casserole.

[bif]

1. Never made either one

But I've never heard "hot dish" before.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I say casserole, my dear raccoon!

I've heard the term "hot dish" too...

But I don't use it myself.


:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Either one, but I will never say "covered dish". Hate that term.

[mitchum]

13. John Wesley just rolled over in his grave

As David Letterman once said, "Being Methodist means you have to bring a covered dish to get into heaven"

[Brickbat]

4. "Hot dish" is pure Minnesotan. I had never heard it until I moved here; I always said "casserole"

before. Here, "hot dish" is the food, "casserole" is the dish you put it in.

[MrsMatt]

10. absolutely correct

life-long Minnesotan

[KamaAina]

5. Everybody says casserole

except Minnesotans, who don't really count. :-) I mean, come on, they even manage to bastardize the childhood game "Duck, Duck, Goose" into something called "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck"! :eyes:

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I say casserole. To me a hot dish is food that is warm as opposed to cold.

[Heidi]

7. Here among my Swiss-German influences, we say "gratin."

If it has a crunchy, oven-baked crust on top, it's a gratin. Here, a "casserole" is a certain kind of baking dish (glass).

[Kali]

8. casserole

or just "slop":P

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I've always said casserole. The only people I have ever heard say "hot dish"

were from the far northern regions of the country.

[auntAgonist]

11. casserole here too. I have heard 'hot dish to pass' said but

I've always referred to it as casserole.

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[foxfeet]

12. Glop.

It's a multipurpose term.