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?

Irish and always pudding - to me afters are receptions after weddings and funeral etc!

I say pudding now. Dessert sounds too posh. It would feel like putting on an act if I said it.

Scottish - we say puddding.

Pudding here, to mean anything after the main course. Could be fruit, yoghurt, spotted dick or even a cheeseboard- it's all pudding!

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It’s funny, posh people I met at university called it supper and pudding! I say dessert now. Growing up it was afters (London parents).

It was afters when I was growing up in the South West. Mum from home counties, Dad from London. In our family now it is just 'pud'.

That’s interesting. “Pudding” feels like the too-posh version to me. My mum has suddenly started calling the patio “the terrace” (🤭) as if she is Margot Ledbetter. “Pudding” is in that category in my head.

It obviously all varies quite a bit. Across England and Wales, anyway.

Afters - Yorkshire

Same here

Afters - Manchester.

I have never heard this before. I say pudding, but it’s always Vienetta which I love but have read on MN that it’s loved by people who think it’s posh to eat Vienetta 😂

No - pudding. Scotland.

Afters was used when I was a kid in east lancs not heard it for a while though

It’s a class thing.

Maybe also regional, dunno.

It’s not very attractive, but then neither is pudding.

Dessert 👍

A cheese board is not pudding, it’s cheese.

Puddings are sweet

Pudding is the ‘posh’ term, not dessert, unless you are talking about an actual fruit course, like wot they do at the palace, or used to, I think.

East London. To me a pudding is a pudding, and calling ice-cream or yoghurt pudding is just confusing!

Growing up we'd ask for, "something sweet", as asking for dessert could be rewarded with a plain yoghurt or an apple. Now I offer dessert or pudding if it's a 'pudding-ey' dessert (soft in a bowl).

Pudding, MIL says Sweet or dessert but FIL, DH and his siblings say pudding we’re all Welsh but my parents are Yorkshire.
We only say “Ahhfters” in a Kenneth Williams voice to be daft!

Gosh that brought back memories, my Father used to say ‘Sweet’ he came from London and would be 101 now if still alive.
Mum was from the Midlands and always said pudding.

Afters
Scottish here

My mum would never ask us if we wanted “ a pudding “
she would say
“Dae ye want yer afters “