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 tend to say "something sweet". I don't like saying pudding - it feels like a juvenile term. I'm from Ireland - lived all over the place for the last 35 years.

Scottish. We always said/ say pudding.
But we also say toilet, never lavatory which sounds horrible to me.

My parents came from very modest working class backgrounds but were typical of their generation in that they were first to buy a house / car/ foreign holidays etc.

I don’t think class distinction applies so much, north of the border, but I could be kidding myself.

I’ve never said afters and I’ve never heard anyone say it either. I’m SE

Afters here in West Yorks but my DH didn't grow up saying it in his family (also WY) so I assume it's a class thing.

My dad born in 1930 in south London. He called pudding afters much to my mums disgust. Although she was born a year later also in south London and hated the word. Every time he would ask her “ what’s for afters”, she would say “ well apple crumble is for dessert” obviously I thought the word afters was somehow a bit dodgy because of her reaction to the word so much to her chagrin I used it as often as possible .

My parents both say it. They’re from east London / Essex, lower middle class backgrounds.

Said it as a kid in Cambridgeshire

We said it in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Moved to the south as a tween - no-one knew what I was saying

Kent originally (me). South London for Mum and Dad. We never said pudding or dessert, always afters.

What do you say?

Dessert. Pudding just conjures up visions of boarding school and miss trunchbull

Yes! It sounds way too Enid Blyton.

Manchester, parents from Liverpool. Working class.

No. I say dinner when I mean dinner.
When you eat and what you call it is up to you.
The snobbishness in some of these comments is quite amusing.
as if they are graciously pointing out the error of our ways and correcting us so that will know better and do better.
ie be more like them.
Or seem to be.
As if being ourselves was a deficit.

Midlands here 😁
Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Then...
Dessert 😋

😉

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/FGK00Cf9vHY

I say afters for dessert and I'm from south wales

Same here

Yes 'afters' from London. Both parents Londoners. And we have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is only good if it's afternoon tea! Supper happens on a Sunday only.

I've never ever heard pudding referred to as 'afters' either in Scotland. Only pudding or occasionally dessert.

Despite visions, pudding is still the correct word to use for whatever sweet dish one has at the end of a meal.
No fish knives to be used
Then off to the lavatory!

I'm from Australia and I say dessert 😊

I grew up in Scotland, we never had afters. We had sweet or pudding, but not often! I haven't heard 'afters' for a long time.

Afters. Irish mother, SE sort of. Grew up in Scandinavia.

My mum says this and she's a Londoner.