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!

Pudding northwest

Except in a restaurant when I'll ask for the dessert menu

We would say afters or pudding. I was born in Kent. Parents both both in London.

Pudding - north Wales
But sometimes dessert in a restaurant

Never say afters or sweet

As a few others have pointed out, it's not the universal term in Ireland where I am, dessert is.
The only things we would call puddings are the type of ones you gave as examples. We don't use 'dessert' trying to be posh, i also had a settee growing up, lol.

The regional and country variations are actually really interesting to read!

U is for upper-class, not universal,@honeyfox.
For some people, using the 'correct' terms is a type of snobbery, a way of excluding others.

I think people on here sometimes tend to act as if all posters were living within a 10 mile radius of them

I think people on here respond with a UK centric perspective. Which is entirely reasonably given this is a UK based website.

imagine how tedious the conversations would become if you had to account for globally differences in every thread.

You don’t think use of “dessert” is comparable to “serviette” or “settee”?!

absolutely it is.

Fits for pudding..NE Scotland.

I feel the same about people who are “mortified” when their pet hamster dies or claim that “to all intensive purposes” they are a qualified person

not “dirty” just wrong.

As I'm quite sure you're aware, the above is the part of your post I was commenting on.
Saying something like "to all intensive purposes" - clearly an error - is not the same as using the word "dessert".

Actually, I think most people are England-centric (and sometimes only parts of England at that) rather than UK-centric.

Words that are commonly used and are, in fact, standard in NI and Scotland often seem to make people 'cringe' too.

Yes, the majority of mumsnetters are UK based, but people do post from all over and they're judged on their language quite unfairly.

Pudding - Northern Ireland

Pudding- south west England

Nope that wasn’t clear at all 🤷‍♀️

the malapropisms I quoted are used often, but wrong. Like “dessert”.

Okay then.

Again, using the word dessert isn't wrong.
It clearly isn't the word you'd choose.
That does not make it wrong.

Dessert - south east.

But that’s because it literally is a dessert if I have anything following a main meal. If it was just something following the main dish, I would use the name of the thing so do you want some ice -cream, yoghurt, chocolate etc?