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!

Dessert, Ireland.

East midlands
Pudding if it's at home, or dessert if we're out for a meal.

Pudding - Scotland

Unless I'm in a restaurant and then I ask for the desert menu.

Dessert- Wales

Dessert when out or pudding at home - Yorkshire.

I don't think I'd ever use sweet or afters.

Depends what it is. Something with custard is a pudding. Something with, for example, cream a dessert or sweet. Not sure what we are having yet then afters.

Pudding - London

Pudding, I'm from West Riding Yorkshire

Dessert - Birmingham

Pudding from oop North

Same as some pp- pudding at home, dessert when out

My late father ( Glasgow ) always used ' sweet '

Pudding, Yorkshire

Dessert, on occasion pudding - Northern Ireland

Dessert, grew up outside of UK with a Brit dad
My DS says pudding, though!

Pudding north London

No, I'm Irish and nearly everyone I know says dessert now.

My mother did use sweet occasionally. As a pp said I think it's an era thing. I have heard afters used too, very rarely in recent times, but somewhat more often when I was a child (70s).

Pudding is never used unless it's part of the name of a specific pudding, eg Plum pudding, Eve's pudding, Bread and butter pudding.

Or black and white pudding as part of a fry of course!

Pudding. SW.

Pudding, Kent.

Maybe in a restaurant I would say, 'Do you want a dessert?' but it would normally be 'pudding' then too.

Dessert, London. Surprised to see so many saying pudding - no one at all calls it that in my circles

Dessert or afters - London

Dessert

Dessert.
Vancouver 🇨🇦

Grew up calling it pudding (NW England) but moved to Canada and had to switch to calling it dessert. The term pudding over here is used to refer to an "Angel Delight" type of dessert.

pudding (home), dessert (out) - New Zealand