Fruit is NOT a special dessert.

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Discuss.

I won't say which side I'm on.

Is a special dessert fruit?

Or

A big gooey sticky toffee pud/cheesecake/pie and custard.

Depends. I don’t normally eat desert but my guilty pleasure is tinned peaches and condensed milk. At a restaurant though it has to be chocolate fudge cake, maximum calorie to £ ratio.

Fruit is a bog standard snack unless it's in a pie...

A special dessert is cheesecake, regular cake etc etc. A fancy yoghurt with the chocolate pieces/bits to add in might just make the cut into a dessert.

It absolutely is NOT. Fruit Salad for pudding days at school were the absolute WORST

Desserts must have chocolate and/or cream. It's not really a dessert without tbh.

An apple? No! Not special- everyday filler.
Strawberries and cream, tropical fruit salad, perfectly ripe mango, lychees then that’s pretty special. So depends on the fruit!

I don't know. Sometimes a big bowl of mixed berries with ice cream and sauce is really nice in summer.

Although I do often have fruit after meals, I wouldn't class it as a "special dessert" - this is the fancy stuff for birthdays, Christmas, family dinners etc

Depends what fruit it is.. An apple, orange banana.. Bog standard and nothing special.

Cherries, melon, kiwi.. More exotic and more expensive so a special treat.

Obviously this is more relative depending on your income.

No!!! One of my colleagues once told me that her daughters get dessert on special occasions (like birthdays) and it's a handful of raisins...I've felt sorry for her daughters ever since.

Fruit was a special dessert when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s; I don't think I saw a real pineapple until I was an adult, similarly mandarin oranges. It was much cheaper to steam a syrup/suet pudding, or bung a rice pudding in the oven to feed a family than to supply fruit.

Now, fruit is the usual dessert; special occasions merit sticky toffee pudding, cheesecake and the like.

Nice fresh fruit salad or strawberries, lovely.

Banana, not so much

Fruit is not a dessert.
At all

If it doesn’t include chocolate and large quantities of double cream, it isn’t a dessert at all, and certainly isn’t special.

Could be - raspberries, mangoes, pineapple, strawberries, passionfruit etc are pretty special imo.

As a child I was allowed 1 banana a week - it was a huge thing

Normal pudding was none grown plum crumble with the stones left in

Depends on the fruit.

Fruit is not a dessert in my mind

Satsuma = not

You are correct OP imo.

Fruit is something we SHOULD ingest but honestly it is just something to eat as part of a normal diet.

Give me a sloppy dessert, tiramisu, vanilla ice cream with melted choc, anything other than fruit. I'd be disappointed myself.

BUT, strawberries dipped in dark choc with fresh cream on the side is OK.

Dessert/pud should be something to look forward to not something we eat as a rule.

I view a big pile of berries with ice cream as quite a treat

Well, the best ever dessert is a ripe banana, double cream and a sprinkling of brown sugar. So that wins against anything else.

If it’s fruit in it’s natural state then no, not a dessert. If it’s as mentioned above, tinned peaches with condensed milk then I’d say that is a dessert.

Fruit is not even a pudding.
Puddings by law, should contain chocolate, caramel or vanilla and obviously loads of sugar! 😬

Tinned fruit with evap was our weekday pudding as a child, so definitely not a special dessert in my eyes.

I'm a big fan of fruit but it is in no way a special pudding. My parents aren't originally from Britain so even the "exotic" fruits are standard in my house.

@KatnissK, I feel sorry for the daughters too! How sad.