Nope. Because it is WRONG! 
Raisins are the work of the Devil and do not belong with such a Heavenly food as stuffing. In fact, send all raisins back to Hell to be with their Creator, for that is where they belong.
Amen!
-Syko
[family guy]
No raisins in stuffing! For every raisin I find, I shall kill you!
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AAAMEN!
Raisins are disgusting. Ick.
Raisins belong in the hamster dish, or in the hamster’s cheeks. They do NOT belong in any human food. Particularly not in spaghetti sauce.
Incidentally, it IS quite amusing to see the hamster stand up on his little hind legs and “dance” for his raisins. So I guess raisins have a purpose.
My word.
Who would have thought the lowly raisin would be the inspiration for so much passion? Well, I suppose that being an alleged foodstuff, such a situation is to be expected.
Spaghetti sauce?
Like all good-hearted, intelligent and sane individuals, I enjoy raisins. I like them in puddings, cereals, breads, and especially salads!
Raisins are of the devil. Their only legitimate purpose is as something to hand out to uncostumed Trick or Treaters on Halloween.
Well, I like raisins too, but I was NOT happy to find golden raisins in the stuffing this year. I like to shovel stuffing into my mouth in huge delicious gobs. That is impossible when one is forced into careful maneuvers with the fork trying to pick out and avoid those creepy raisins.
Harumph.
My brother makes a fantastic salad with broccoli, red onion, bacon, sunflower seeds, and raisins. He brought it for Thanksgiving (we do a sort of pot-luck thing in my family), and it was the only dish that was completely gone at the end of the meal, aside from the mashed potatoes, because it was so yummy. I think he got the recipe from Emeril Lagasse. I’d have to say though, I’d rather have apples in the stuffing.
I love fruit in stuffing.
What I hate is the “mystery meat” gibblets.
And clams! Who wants to eat clam guts full of clam crap?
Raisins should never be cooked into anything. They’re OK raw.
Raisins in porridge! Thats Hot Oatmeal to you North Americans.
Raisins, Golden Syrup and cream. Mmmmm. Makes a Melbourne Winter tolerable.
Oh and when I was a kid - raisins and raw peanuts and apple quarters, out of a paper bag, sitting in a tree house, reading a new book - Heaven!
Redboss
Ooh, now them’s fightin’ words. Barbecue sauce is sweet. Mole (as in chicken mole) has a certain sweetness. To say nothing of many Caribbean dishes in which fruit and meat are paired. It’s a good thing, I tell you!
Oh, and Zenster: You may be interested to know that the turkey recipe of the late, great Morton Thompson has a stuffing which contains not only celery, but water chestnuts as well. I made it this year. It was delicious; everyone said so. So :p.
I flew down to Texas to visit my sister and her family for Christmas '99 and stayed for the New Year’s festivities. This was my first time I was there for the Holidays in over a decade. My sister made this great stuffing, but I had one problem with it. There were all these weird tasting little light-green things in it, which I later learned were golden raisins. Like Cruncy, I love stuffing but y’all can keep your raisins to yourselves.
Oh, the bad memories this dredges up . . .
My mother-in-law, with malice and evil intent, adds golden raisins to her stuffing. It took me about 1.5 seconds to discover this (mmm! a big happy mouthful of – urk!), and another 6 years to figure out that golden raisins look a lot like the plump, squishy bready bits, making it damn near impossible to separate the good from the hideous. So I just stopped eating the crap; it was too much work. Thanksgiving without stuffing sucks, boys and girls.
Special insult-added-to-injury incident: one year MIL noticed a little pile of raisins at the side of everyone’s plates, and finally figured out what was going on. “I thought everyone liked raisins!” she said, and when we all grumbled our denials, she called for hands-up from everyone who did like them. Not one hand went up. “Well, I like them, so I’m going to keep putting them in!” she announced. And she wonders why there’s so much stuffing left over. (If I knew how to do the rolleyes, I would.)
One of my favorite Mexican dishes is chile rellenos. The Mexican restaurant closest to my house puts raisins in their chile rellenos. It’s sad, really; they make good food otherwise.
Our Dallas and Houston franchisees were in town a couple of months ago, and we were talking about Mexican food. I mentioned the raisins in the chile rellenos. They refused to believe that raisins were added to the dish, and insisted I must have read the menu wrong. I had to bring a menu to them to convince them I was telling the truth.
I’ve got nothing against raisins, and will eat them on occasion. But not in some foods. I will gladly add stuffing to that list.
Never tried it, so I must reserve my judgement. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with raisins.
The savory stuffing in our household contains smoked oysters and Amaretto. That’s good eating.
I hope everyone realized I meant Cranky when I somehow combined that with Crunchy! I have no idea what happened, Crunchy hasn’t even posted in this thread.