How many people are pudding people?

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Not a major question i realise. But I’m curious…DP and I are both mid 40s, both been married for 20 years before meeting each other.

How normal is pudding in your house? I’ve never been a pudding person, didn’t grow up with it, ex DH wasn’t a pudding person either.

DP is a dyed in the wool pudding person. Like, every meal has a pudding.

This is not a class/health goady thread btw. DP and i had similar demographics growing up and pudding was very definitely a ‘thing’ when I grew up, just not in my family.

Just wondered, is pudding a regular after dinner thing these days or not?

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My DH was, I trained him out of it as we were both putting on weight. His mum and first wife both believed a meal wasn’t a meal without a pudding. In his mums case (she’s v slim) crumble and custard, his ex wife it was more a fruity yoghurt or something. I’ve never been that bothered….

we aren’t ‘pudding’ people. But do have sweet tooth’s. Before we went on a weight loss journey, we were having chocolate every night after dinner.

Now we might have a yoghurt or popcorn

Love a pudding though definitely didn't have them as a child other than on special occasions basically because we couldn't afford them

Avoid puddings now because I don't want to weigh 20 stone

the introduction of mini puddings at my local pub is the way forward 😆

I love the idea of a pudding more than the reality!

I wasn’t raised in a pudding house - we’d occasionally have apple crumble in winter and there was always ice cream in the freezer but otherwise “pudding” was a yoghurt or fruit.

I could be but realise they are just pleasure calories, so limit.

Probably once a week, over Christmas it was more. I make very nice crème brûlée and also old fashioned steamed puddings with custard that I make from scratch. We had strawberry yogurt with a few fresh strawberries on top last night, that’s not pleasure calories though certainly ok. I don’t eat chocolate or sweets and rarely biscuits or cake. I think ready bought sweet stuff is rarely nice and the time to make home made is not always available.

Neither of us have a sweet tooth and we don't have puddings. In fact, the Christmas puddings I bought this year are still untouched in the cupboard because we had a cheese board instead.

“What’s for pudding?” Is the annoying nightly refrain in my house. It drives me mad.
DH requires a pudding and a yogurt every evening, he also appears unable to eat a lunchtime sandwich without a bag of crisps.
I’ve broken the crisp habit for the kids but they all love a pudding. I love baking so try to make my own but as the main cook it’s still an extra faff.

We love puddings but don't have them normally as they are not needed. Taste great but too much extra calories. We do have a pudding usually when eating out and on special occasions or when entertaining.

We love puddings but there weren't after every meal - in fact a lot growing up would be fruit or fruit based baking desserts. It's not always after christmas or sunday lunch either but not unknown.

During our kids childhood it would also more likely to have been homemade if it was there after a meal. We do have sweet tooths.

Don't always have them when we eat out - though Dmum did.

These days a lot of bought desserts have a lot of sweenters in - did go out to a dessert place as treat once and it went straight through me which I suspect may have been sweeteners and it wasn't particulary nice - never been back.

I am a pudding person. By which I mean, I love them, I bake/ cook them very well, and I am shaped like a pudding. (Short and fat, like a traditional English pudding, even though I'm not traditionally English!)

So nowadays, I don't make as much pudding. For fear that me and the pudding will become one.

Not to derail but I absolutely loathe the word ‘pudding’ when describing dessert. It’s up there with ‘supper’ and ‘meal’. Instantly screams old fashioned. Anyone else? 😅

I don't think it's an age thing - I do think it regional english and often class based and google seems to be backing me up with that though could also be an age thing on top I've not heard yet.

It can be confusing as some people I know use it for only actually pudding desserts and others any kind of dessert - though actual pudding desserts I think are getting much rarer generally.

MN generally reacts to the idea of 'pudding' with predictable disgust and horror, and 'never in our house!' but I'm old, and my Nan was a great cook (she had been a housekeeper for elderly lady whose teenage grandsons regularly came to stay and who loved puds) and she would make a lovely apple pie and custard, or a crumble, or a bread and butter pudding, or a Queen of Puddings (my favourite ever) but mainly only at weekends when we all had the time to sit and eat together.

We also had a pudding every single day at school - they were delicious - things like chocolate crunch and pink custard, gypsy tart, something called 'Majorca slice' (a traybake with glace cherries and sultanas) - as well as a much more dispiriting selection of semolinas and a steamed sponge in various flavours, known universally as 'Stodge' ("is it Treacle Stodge or chocolate Stodge today?"

Obesity, even being oveweight at all, was so rare. I suppose we all got more exercise - I had a 6 mile (round trip) daily cycle-ride to school.

I don’t know anyone that says dessert. Mostly pudding, a few say sweet or afters which are both awful IMO.

I love pudding and we mostly have something. Nice homemade cake, a hot pudding in winter, bowl of fruit in the summer. Also sometimes cheese and biscuits. Always smallish portions of pudding though.

We mostly don't eat breakfast, and are slim ish and fit ish in our late middle age I'd say.

I use supper as well as well as pudding @Nutmuncher . Each to their own but WTF is wrong with meal?

Queen of Puddings is my absolute favourite too @ApplesinmyPocket . I often make one for myself when DH and DS are away 😁

I think my DH would love us to be a pudding house and we all do have a sweet tooth. When I was growing up it was only fruit or yogurt for pudding and so I carried this on with my kids, and DH is appalled by this, saying they are not a pudding!

We have pudding when we have people round for a meal, thats about it.

I have to have something sweet straight after a meal, whether that’s a chocolate biscuit or a yoghurt etc. I do honestly think that this is because I grew up eating a pudding after each meal which usually consisted of cake and custard, apple pie with ice cream, Vienetta, sponge pudding.

but no as an adult I don’t have pudding as such. I’d be the size of a bloody house 🙈 not to mention the heart burn!

I haven’t brought my kids up to have pudding either as I don’t want them to get into the habit. It would cost me a fortune anyway on the shopping

Sweet and afters are absolutely as bad as pudding. It’s dessert.

‘Dessert’ is an abomination to an inveterate snob like me.

@dazedandblue same here. When I first moved to the UK it took me forever to comprehend that people were just talking about desserts in general.

I tend to bake a cake or pie at the weekend and eat it during the week. Or we will have fruit or yoghurt for pudding for something lighter.

Grew up with puddings (DM & DB are sweet hounds) and I enjoyed it but could take or leave it, as I prefer savoury foods.

Nowadays, DH likes a sweet treat after dinner. I notice I fancy something when I'm in that part of my cycle, but it's not a formal pudding, more like a piece of chocolate. We have so much from Christmas!