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.

Fruit is not a dessert full stop IMO 👎🏼

I’m with you OP!

Yes - it's the dessert you get as a child if you've been naughty.

Unless it's stewed fruit. In buttery pastry with custard.

What's for pudding? Answer: there's fruit in the bowl. Worst day ever

Wrong.

A perfectly ripe Alphonso mango or a bowl of ripe black cherries is definitely a special treat, for pudding or at any other time.

Usually I'd say fruit is not a dessert, but I do enjoy a good poached pear.

No food should be ‘special’. It creates emotional attachments to food which can cause eating disorders!

Actually now I'm thinking about it I do tend to prefer fruit based desserts. Lemon tart, apple strudel, anything with cherries, Eton mess, puddings with raisins etc.

Nope. Fruit is fruit. I don’t try to sell it as pudding. DC eat a main course, followed by a fruit course, followed by pudding if enough of the other two went in. When they were little it used to make me less bothered about whether they ate all their main courses because I knew they’d eat the fruit.
Yoghurt is not pudding either.

No food should be ‘special’. It creates emotional attachments to food which can cause eating disorders!

Rubbish.

Fillet steak. Vs. Sirloin
Lobster vs tuna
Posh chocolates vs a mars bar

Etc..

Of course food can be a special luxury.

My 2 love a tin of peaches for dessert 😅

Fresh berries or luxurious fruit salad/platter yes. Unadorned banana maybe not.

I am on low carb diet so any fruit is a treat though.

Only when paired with something that isn't fruit. On its own it's just fruit.

I really hate the term 'dessert'.

Anyway...

Put it this way- fruit isn’t a desert at all in my house! 😂 like an actual piece of fruit 🍉 don’t get me wrong, my two love fruit and snack on it all day but when they ask what’s for pudding/ this would be the look of get if I said a piece of fruit! 😮😯😧😱😠

Tonight's pudding porn star martinis made with freshly blended fruit , dad is mashed on 2 lmao

I'd say strawberries and cream is bordering on the special side, especially when they are local and in season rather than imported. And probably a platter of tropical fruit (mango, pomegranate, pineapple etc) because it's darned expensive.

Coconut, kumquats & watermelon - more trouble than they're worth.

Apricots, grapes, red berries, kiwi, peaches, melon etc - not your everyday but not special enough.

Plums, rhubarb - fit only for crumble. Not special.

Your bog-standard apple, orange, pear, banana? Not special.

Banana or apple is not a dessert but a fruit salad that the children make is definitely a ‘treat’ dessert (to the children anyway)

Depends on the fruit - a plain apple , not. A well made exotic fruit salad - YES!

A piece of fruit such as an apple is part of lunch or a snack.

An everyday desert in our house is a yogurt. Or stewed fruit and custard or jelly and fruit. Or strawberries and cream/ice cream.

A special desert is an ice cream sundae or apple crumble and cream or cheesecake or chocolate torte etc.

Maybe you need to buy nicer fruit for pudding OP?

Nothing better than perfectly ripe strawberries with sugar and cream, I'd pick that over almost anything.

I'm old enough to remember when grapes were only bought for someone in hospital, they were such a special treat. And they had pips in. Strawberries, raspberries, peaches, apricots and currants appeared for a few weeks a year and that was it, so definitely special.

Lots of people had an apple or pear tree in their garden, so they were dullsville, and although oranges and bananas were commonplace, everybody older than you would keep going on about how they never had them during the war.

I'm not a great fan of fruit, to be honest.

I quite often make a huge fruit platter for dessert. Or a bowl of skyr with fruit on top. I’m not really a fan of puddings. So it’s special to me

Depends on how it’s served. My favourite childhood desert was banana and custard! If it’s strawberries with ice cream etc, then yes it’s desert.

An apple or banana etc after dinner is a snack after dinner/supper, not a desert.