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?

growing up pudding was a sunday night thing and usually just ice cream. other nights were fruit.
I rarely ever have pudding these days even when eating out.

I like them, but never have room. DH will eat if one is going, but certainly wouldn't want one more than once a week. He's really into eating yogurts though.

Are you baking pies in winter? If so, what kind?

Pies are normally a winter thing, aren’t they? Hot from the oven. Apple pie, apple crumble, that sort of thing. We wouldn’t have them in summer.

Interesting! I was thinking of berry pies, rhubarb, lemon and cream pies.

@JingsMahBucket haha!! At first I was so in awe on why some damn pudding cups were all the rage and eaten so often until I figured it out!

It still feels odd for me to call dessert pudding even though I know what it means here now.

We only got pudding on Sunday evenings after a roast of some sort

Pies in Britain are fruit in pastry, generally ones grown here. So apple is most common.

We like puddings, but only have one about once a month - we’d be making pigs of ourselves otherwise.

I’ll make crumbles, apple pies, Eve’s pudding, cherry clafoutis, and recently made my first blueberry pie.

I always have desert, but I'm on a diet so it's a healthy one! Mainly a portion of tinned fruit, I especially love peaches and apricots.
Growing up we always had desert though. Fruit pies and crumbles with custard in winter and fruit with evaporated milk or jelly/angel delight in the summer.

I don't care what you call it if it involves chocolate. 😁

Someone asked me which pies I bake in winter, sorry I've lost my place holder for you.

Over winter it tends to be apple, or variations on the theme of apple. If I can get them in M&S it might be apple and pear or apple and plum.

I've probably made you think I'm some bake-off star, I'm absolutely not- my bakes at the weekend tend to be pies (making pastry is a fools game in my view, so the pastry is always ready made) or loaf cakes- marble cake, lemon or orange drizzle, and parkin are particular favourites in our family.

We never have them. Never had them grouting up (except for tinned fruit cocktail and Carnation Evaporated Milk in a Sunday with our egg sandwiches). Maybe a Viscount with a cup of tea after dinner was the best your could hope for.
Me and DH haven’t had dessert as standard in 30 years! If we have people to stay I always have to apologise for no dessert as it just doesn’t enter my head and they sit there expectantly!