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?

My parents say it and they both grew up in Devon. One is from a working class background, the other middle class.

Scottish family. We said afters.

Of course it's afters ( possibly dessert too I admit, at a pinch).
Pudding is a specific form of afters as in rice pudding, treacle pudding, sponge pudding etc. (long time refugee in Yorkshire from Manchester.) How can ice cream, strawberries eg be a pudding!

Afters in Sunderland although we never actually did afters in our family

I'm from Liverpool and say afters. Been here several generations.

After here, in Scotland. I always thought pudding was only said in England.

North Kent and it was afters.

NI it was always puddding

Ive never heard ‘afters’ in Scotland and only pudding!!

We say afters and we are from different areas of Greater Manchester but both very working class towns.

south west and always pudding (even if a yoghurt)

I was thinking about this the other day. I grew up in the West Midlands and it was always “afters” but I haven’t used the is word for years.

We always said pudding at home (never dessert) but I heard others say afters at school.

I might have to reinstate this!

Dublin, and always pudding.

I say afters. From South London

Also say tea for tea. But lunch for lunch. Im half posh

Cheshire here and always afters.

Why are you asking?

Makes perfect sense to me!

I was getting unreasonably (inwardly) irritated by DH saying “pudding” about twelve times in three minutes. (We having a debate about who was hungry and whether the fresh raspberries would last another day.)

So I started thinking about it, and our family use of “afters” and couldn’t pin it down.

It was the only term among everyone I knew when growing up. London burbs Middlesex.
Esp at school.
We didn't have it at home except high days and holidays so no particular word for it.
I like it. It's so serviceable. Does exactly what it says.
6Self explanatory.
Bit like front room.
I love these traditional terms.

So those who have stopped saying “afters” do you all say “dessert” now?

Liverpool!

Exactly! Very serviceable.

I used to say afters when I was growing up. Childhood in the Midlands but mum and dad both from South Wales.

We said pudding at home or sweet if we were trying to be posh. At school dinners, it was strictly afters - Norfolk.

East London and always called it afters, met my husband and moved to Kent now it’s pudding!