When stationed in Germany we attended a small church off base. One thanksgiving they decided to have a pot luck Thanksgiving feast. We didn’t participate because it was a long weekend and we wanted to travel.
On Saturday my phone exploded with messages of people being sick and church on Sunday being cancelled because the pastor was among the ill.
Turns out that someone cooked stuffing in the bird and that was the cause.
I grew up with the stuffing cooked in the bird, I’ve done the same and no one in our family has ever gotten sick at Thanksgiving. My grandmother used to say, clean kitchen, clean hands, happy tummy.
We had a similar thing on Eastern Shore of Maryland years ago, where a church noted for its yearly stuffed ham bake sickened scores of people due to improper meat refrigeration and cooking temps. It had been their big fundraiser and people came from miles around, but no more.
Our local church is very small, but requires all food handlers to take a certification course.