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Pudding, sweet or dessert?

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marthamoo · 06/02/2005 15:37

As prompted by Lonelymum's pancake thread.

We say "afters"! How common is that?!

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nerdgirl · 06/02/2005 15:38

Dessert here.

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Moomina · 06/02/2005 15:38

LOL martha - we've all gone very Debretts this weekend, haven't we?

Pudding for me. There's posh.

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Lonelymum · 06/02/2005 15:39

Very. I think pudding is to the point and unpretentious. Dessert maybe for a lighter dish. Sweet is just pretentious IMO (despite the fact my father uses it, or maybe because of it?)

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edam · 06/02/2005 15:39

Pudding here too - although we don't really eat it at home. Dessert is restaurant-ese, isn't it?

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marthamoo · 06/02/2005 15:39

I wouldn't sat "afters" in public - I'd say pudding

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fredtbad · 06/02/2005 15:39

Dessert, I think. Or point and say "that cake there please"

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NameChangingMancMidlander · 06/02/2005 15:39

nowadays it's pud. when i was a kid it was afters

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Elf1981 · 06/02/2005 15:40

I put pancakes firmly in "necessity" category!. I trasped around three supermarkets to find pancake mix one night. And I'm not even pregnant yet!!
Though, if I have to conform, I'll say dessert.

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Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 15:41

I use all of them!

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Moomina · 06/02/2005 15:42

LOL @ Fred. 'Can you see it on the trolley?'

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Ameriscot2005 · 06/02/2005 15:42

Pudding!

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fredtbad · 06/02/2005 15:42

No I ate in the time you posted & it was fantastic!! LOL

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roisin · 06/02/2005 15:45

Pudding! The boys always insist on 3!

(In my defence one of the three is fruit and one is yoghurt, and they're skinny as rakes.)

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fisil · 06/02/2005 15:45

pudding.

At uni where I learnt very little about history and a lot about eating & drinking & dressing up, I discovered that dessert is actually just fruit, nothing deliciously calorific or chocolatey!

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marthamoo · 06/02/2005 15:47

"Would you like a sweet?" is what you say if you're offering someone a Fruitella, isn't it?

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TinyGang · 06/02/2005 15:47

Pudding usually, or sometimes 'pud'

Dh's father calls it 'Duff'!

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lou33 · 06/02/2005 16:02

pudding

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Gobbledigook · 06/02/2005 16:05

Pudding.

'Afters' as a kid I think (not that we ever got one - JT was too skint, too mean and too scared of having chubby kids !)

Love ya really Mummy!

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Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:06

its a bad habit to get into ....

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Gobbledigook · 06/02/2005 16:06

Today for pudding we are having apple crumble and custard - yum-meeee!!!!

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marthamoo · 06/02/2005 16:07

Are you two mother and daughter????

How the hell did I miss that?

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noddyholder · 06/02/2005 16:07

pudding sweet is chocolate etc and dessert is on a restaurant menu

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Joolstoo · 06/02/2005 16:08

mm

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Gobbledigook · 06/02/2005 16:08

Marthamoo - how did you???!

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moondog · 06/02/2005 16:09

Sweet is so naff. Brings to mind shitty little seaside hotels where you can get a three course Sunday lunch for about £5.99 (hmmmm wonder why?) and some illiterate half wit has scrawled the menu up on a blackboard and stuck it outside.

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I used to live near an (un) fun pub and the landlord was a master at this sort of thing. Once pointed out to him that he had mispelt both the welsh and English parts of his sign.
His response?
'Some people are soooo fussy! What does it matter?'

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