If you say “afters” to mean dessert or pudding…

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….where are you, your parents and/or grandparents from?

Is it a class thing, or a regionalism, or fairly neutral?

I'm from West Lancs and say afters. My dad was born and bred in the same area but my mum was from South Wales.

Do you thinking cake from your mum or your dad?

I think “afters” is a working class north west thing.

dad used to say afters, from London

I was born in East London and growing up, we called it ‘afters’

Yes my dad said it, born in London during the war.

We called it Afters when I was growing up. Both of my parents are from Lancashire.

Yorkshire and afters here.

“Think it came…” is what I was trying to say.

From Bristol, dad Welsh. Always said afters - I didn't realise other people said pudding until I went away to uni!

We said afters in the Channel Islands when I was growing up. Your post has only just made me realise we don’t say it anymore!

Liverpool
Call it afters

Manchester. It's the dessert after your evening meal which is called tea, just to be clear.

That’s quite a national spread. Although no Scottish or NI cases yet.

I think I said afters as a child. We didn’t have it often though. West Country. We had breakfast, lunch and supper as a further point of discussion.

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Yes, always called it afters.
I’m from Essex. And I guess I grew up working class.

Another person who had just realised we no longer say it. West Lancashire also, and we definitely have it after TEA

East London/Irish family here and we've always said afters.

I wouldn't say pudding unless we were having an actual pudding.

Afters in Sheffield.

To be honest I don't know which side of thd family it came from.

My parents said ‘afters’ - she was from Lancashire, he was from Yorkshire. But I think school dinners had ‘afters’ too, that was in Essex.

From East Anglia, said “afters”. Definitely working class.

Used to say afters when growing up in Norfolk.

South Wales. It was afters unless we had company and then it was pudding or dessert.