Pudding or Dessert - which one is 'posher'?

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Sitting watching Bake Off with DH and Alison Hammond has commented in a joking way to Paul Hollywood that he calls dessert 'pudding' instead. DH and I have been debating on whether the word dessert is posher than pudding. What's your thoughts on this vital topic of discussion??

Dessert.

All I know is that they're both posher than 'afters'.

I’m from Paul’s neck of the woods and it’s afters here

Pudding

Pudding is posher. See U vs non U (Nancy Mitford)

Pudding

Pudding is definitely posher. Or 'sweet'. I've heard very posh people calling it the 'sweet'.

I always say pudding. When we’re out at a restaurant we’re always offered a dessert menu though, not the pudding menu. Anyway I prefer how pudding sounds so I’ll say pudding is posher.

Pudding

I think the posher one is pudding. Or so I’ve heard!

I've never seen a pudding menu so I go with Dessert

Pudding. It's one of those weird ones where the working classes and the upper classes share a word; like saying 'what?' If you don't hear something someone said.

My DHs very posh parents say "pudding". (Also loo not toilet, sitting room not lounge, sofa not settee etc etc etc).
I'm much commoner. We said dessert when we were trying to be posh. Otherwise we said "pudding" but apparently it's different when said in a strong WC accent if the pudding is something lower class (eg Vianetta! Yes- even puddings have class signifiers apparently.)

Foreign people think in this is weird and they're correct.

Pudding is upper class. Dessert is nouveau riche. I don't care what it's called so long as I get to eat it though.

I was once told that it's words derived from the French that mark one out as non-U, hence the posh person's pref for napkin rather than serviette, loo rather than toilet, pudding rather than dessert. God only knows why, as all the poshos are basically Norman.

Pudding

Anything French in origin is usually thought of as ‘not posh’. Like serviette instead of napkin.

Pudding, always. Dessert is American usage.

Pudding

Yes- even puddings have class signifiers apparently.)

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What would a working class pudding be? Roly poly?? Or banoffee pie, etc

This came up recently on Rivals - the answer was pudding!

Definitely pudding. Dessert is akin to serviette.

I’m Irish so I call it dessert.

Gosh, I always thought it was the other way around! What does non-U mean?