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

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

Dessert and pudding interchangeably- south west England.

I've never heard anyone say that one is hot and one is cold before. I just knew Americans only use pudding for a specific type of pudding so we probably confuse them a lot!

Grew up in a different country, called it sweets. Or dessert.

Came to the UK and partners posher than me brainwashed me into calling it pudding (which to me still means a plum pudding/choc pudding or similar saucy cake-like actual pudding

Depends what the actual dish is really.

Pudding or sweet growing up. I tend to say dessert now though. I have read the word pudding so many times now that it seems meaningless.

Dessert/pudding..Southerner now West Mids.

Pudding

West Midlands.

Pudding - North Yorkshire

Pudding, even if something like a bowl of angel delight or penguin biscuit when I was younger. I might say dessert occasionally now if I am out.

Desert - London, east end
DH says Sweet - Kent

from london here. We usually say either pudding or desserts…depends on the day I guess 😂

Pudding - Yorkshire

Dessert. Am from Belfast. I don't think I've ever heard anyone here call it pudding. But I have heard 'afters' occasionally.

Dessert - Jersey

Dessert, Irish.

Dessert, Ireland.

As a child it was always 'afters'. As an adult I call it 'pudding'. Family is from Nottingham, I live in Wales.

Dessert or pudding

I had no idea pudding was posh. I remember (I think) the grandad in the sitcom Bread saying 'where's me pudding?' He wasn't posh😆

Afters or dessert.

Pudding always makes me think of actual pudding, not ice cream, cake or fruit etc.

Pudding, always! South East

Afters.. ( West Yorkshire).
Pudding is Yorkshire pudding lol.
We say.. " what's for afters"

I grew up with afters, then went to Durham and developed notions of myself and as an adult I say pudding.

Oh now that's interesting because my Irish parents always called it afters.

I thought dessert was more English.

Also had no idea pudding was considered 'posh' as it's factually incorrect if it's not an actual pudding?

Pudding, south west wales. Dessert or afters is just too posh!

East Midlands. As a child, we always called it 'pudding', as did all my friends. Later started to call it 'dessert' if eating out or with anyone other than very good friends, in the belief that this was more proper/posh. Although my very very posh friend always calls it pudding so I suspect I got that wrong!

The only person I know who calls it 'sweet' is MIL. I think it may be an era thing, more than a class thing. Her heyday was the 70s and I think it was perhaps the done thing then (eg I remember restaurants bringing out the 'sweet trolley')