Dessert, sweet, pudding or afters? Which do you say and where are you from?

[WildFlowerBees]

We've always said pudding, Lancashire born. Having this conversation with someone who says sweet. Haven't heard it called that in years!

Where does sweet come from then?

To me, a pudding is a subtype of dessert so this in particular drives me insane. Ice cream, for example, is NOT a pudding!

Cant believe theres no love for sweet! It was always sweet at school and I stuck with that forecer till I was put in my place and made to call it dessert

Pudding. My grandparents were the only people I ever heard use sweet.

Had parents with aspirations of poshness - so always pudding or pudding course.

Dessert was thought of as frightfully common.

Exactly! Pudding is very specific. How could a yoghurt or a fruit/cream combo ever be called pudding.

Pudding. I've been brought up all over but I guess my parents are mostly South East.

My son stared saying 'afters' when he went to school dinners? 🤣

Pudding - Yorkshire

Same. So pudding.

Dessert is actually a different course altogether.

Pudding!

Pudding. London and Cornwall.

Yep.

Afters or dessert - South Yorkshire

Sweet, rural Ireland

Dessert...unless I'm actually having a pudding. Midlands born but living down south.

As a kid we used to have mores, nexts or elses. Or just pudding if it was a good one.

Londons 70s timeline

This made me laugh. I’m not old or posh but my DF and DGPs were and pudding has stuck with me. Edited to say mid-Wales.

Pudding. London.

Pudding at home. Eating out? Bring me the dessert menu or push the dessert trolley over here please.

The class element is more of a factor than region imo.

Dessert - Ireland

Pudding, or sometimes dessert if in a restaurant. Was brought up to believe afters/sweet is extremely common.

dessert.....

grew up outside the uk until 12 then in London and south east

From memory it’s a ‘class’ thing isn’t it? Pudding (upper), dessert (middle), sweet/afters (lower). We say pudding- rural Scotland - definitely not ‘upper class’ but parents and grandparents always wanted us to know what to say and do in any situation. Still not posh but bring at desserts.

Pudding. Scotland.

We never had any 'pudding' type puddings. Except rice pudding. And bread and butter pudding. Would semolina be a pudding?

Scratch what I said then. We never had cake for pudding. Ever.