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??

Pudding

Pudding

god the word serviette sets my teeth on edge!

No one since C.S. Lewis says looking glass.

I would 🤷‍♀️

Always thought they were different things, really , one being sweet and lighter (dessert) and one being a bit more substantial (like a spotted dick or treacle sponge), but just found this on a ‘posh’ site!

https://www.etiquetteschool.uk/dessert-or-pudding

^^ This

Pudding to finish off supper (rather than dinner)

I was told by a chef years ago that a dessert was originally fruit based don’t know if there is any truth in that.
So I guess apple pie - dessert, sticky toffee - pudding, cheese and biscuit - afters.

Yeah, I definitely have! But I have noticed they’re generally labelled as dessert menus

I can’t stand the word ‘pudding’ for some reason 🤢

I've never heard anyone do that before.

If I saw the phrase 'pudding menu' I'd imagine a list of suety and stodgy and delicious things, the kinds of fare they feasted on in Pickwick Papers.

Pudding here

Agree, but I was quoting Nancy Mitford, as she specifically mentioned pudding in this context in the 1950s.

Yep… Is no one else watching this?! It’s fab!

Pudding. Dessert if dreadfully common.
See also, toilet, lounge, settee and serviette, pleased to meet you, pardon all very Non U and aspiring middle class.

Toilet is to lavatory

as

Dessert is to pudding

as

Couch is to sofa

It's posh not to worry about what's posh.

Dessert covers a wider range of sweet food items in my opinion. Puddings are hot served with custard (pie, crumble, suet etc) whereas dessert covers fancy cold creamy cakes etc

I was a Nanny for years, and I found the wealthier families (with generational wealth) said supper, pudding; the more aspiring families said dinner, dessert. I once Nannied for a family whose father was a Baron and he was son of one of the Lords in HoL. The mother was the daughter of someone extremely wealthy. They called it pudding.

You have sort of hit the nail on the head there though.
Anywhere they have a menu is Non U.
Upperclass venues don’t have menus. You are served pudding. You don’t select it!

Arctic Roll. Which I am now desperate for a piece of…

Correct. The word posh itself is the opposite of posh 🤣

Desert but I prefer to say pudding