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.

It is in this house, blueberries are also sweeties. Easiest way to get my four year old to eat fruit.

I do like a really nice fruit salad with ice cream when it's hot. Or if the fruit is in a crumble/pie in the winter. And I do like fruit compote with yoghurt.

But no, a special dessert is something like lemon tart, cheesecake, a rich chocolate pudding, sticky toffee with cream or ice cream.

I often have a piece of fruit with lunch but wouldn't class it as a dessert.

In my house we say "Now let's have some delicious fruit," in a bright voice with a patronising head-tilt, to indicate our contempt for the kind of people who think fruit is dessert and try to persuade others of the same.

Fruit is an essential treat, natural sugars, and essential.
puddings are nice, but you tend to see them round your middle and are unhealthy refined sugar, diabetes inducing.
I like both though, and everything in moderation.
Fruit is special if it's rationed or you can't afford it often.

A lovely ripe peach with clotted cream. Great dessert and pretty special considering the awful disappointment of a large quantity of the supermarket 'ripen at home' peaches.

Depends what you do with the fruit.
When we lived in Germany, ice cream Parlours had these amazing ice cream and fruit sundaes. They were amazing.
A well presented fruit platter can be a lovely treat.
My DDs live doing chocolate bananas on the BBQ/ campfire.
Fruit and dipping chocolate.

Then there's bog standard everyday fruit.

According to my mother, yes

I would class fruit as a special pudding. It’s something we eat as a snack or with breakfast/lunch or after dinner on a bog standard day.
I don’t count something as a pudding unless it’s chocolate based. I realise pavlovas and crumbles etc are all classed as puddings but I wouldn’t class them as a ‘special dessert’ because for me there’s no chocolate and I’m not excited about them.
I do eat them though, the rest of my family love a crumble or an Eton mess and so on.
But no, fruit is a snack or midweek ‘something to eat after dinner’ type thing.

I agree with others, depends on the fruit and how its prepared?

Banana in the skin- NO. Banana baked with chocolate/caramel and ice-cream- YES

Apple- NO Apple turnover/Apple Pie/Apple crumble- YES

Any tropical/exotic fruit is delicious, even just as a fruit salad in the summer. With cream or ice-cream, I'd be happy with that as a dessert. Its also lighter than a heavy cheesecake or toffee pudding.

Ok.

MIL = chopped banana and apple in a bowl is dessert. (No cream/sugar on top)

Me = brownie plus iced cream, apple crumble and custard, millionaire cheesecake is dessert.

MIL = cats bum 😠

Fruit is a filler. Dessert is something you serve with cream, custard, ice cream or evaporated milk or a trifle.

Nope, I feel cheated if fruit is a dessert. Dessert needs to have cream, custard, ice cream, chocolate and fat basically.
Feck off with miserable fruit 😊

To me fruit is what you eat during the day when you're on a diet/trying to be good and not eat crisps. It's in no way a "treat". It's filler.

Did Mil catch the end of rationing growing up? My mil spoke of serious deprivation whilst my fil lived in the country and never experienced any deprivation. For her, an orange would be a treat and shared. For him, it wasn’t anything special.

No! unless it's tropical fruits on a platter beside a sun lounger, somewhere sunny hot and exotic with handsome waiters and gorgeous cocktails ................................ sigh

Chopped banana and apple in a bowl is not pudding. It is a 1970s fresh fruit salad minus the orange.

My grandmother was an adult during the war and she would’ve at least put some evaporated milk over tinned pears.

I always saw fruit as a punishment pudding give me a cake any day over a bit of melon

Reminds me of the time my MIL and her live in boyfriend promised my very fussy eater daughter a cake if she ate all her dinner. The cake was a malt loaf bar!!

Mostly no. But a perfect peach or plum or even strawberry is a truly special thing. But sadly hard to come by.

It's a standard dessert, not a special one. Though lots of the suggestions here sound really nice. Does your MIL seriously think that apple and banana in a bowl is 'special'?

I read somewhere that fruit should be eaten on an empty stomach... something to do with digestion whatever whatever. So there ya go WRECK her argument with SCIENCE!

I might eat chopped banana and apple in a bowl after tea with no objections, but it would be more to boost my vitamin intake if I'd not eaten much during the day. I quite like it, but I wouldn't class it as pudding / dessert. Strawberries and rasberries with yoghurt or creme fraiche would be dessert, although "special dessert" ie for birthday or Christmas etc would contain cream or cake or chocolate or similar