'I'm not a dessert person' What a bloody silly thing to say.

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Like saying 'I'm not a savoury person' or 'I'm not a main course type'.

fecking daft thing to declare. nobbers.

and it's pudding. not dessert.

I need to hijack this thread for a minute.

I am a heathenish Yank by upbringing and I do not really understand the idea of calling someone else "common". It just seems so .... weirdly judge and class obsessed! Actually calling someone "common" seems like the most "common" thing you can do.

...but in so far as I understand the British class system, I always thought "pudding" was the common word for "dessert". Because surely pudding refers to a specific type of dessert? As in, bread pudding or sticky toffee pudding? It's a boiled dessert, right?

It may just be because pudding is such an awful word that I think this.....

*weirdly judgy

revolting (great name) I am a Brit and I think the same as you. A pudding is a certain type of 'dessert' . But can be baked or steamed

Ahhh

God I want cheese now

best not or cheese dreams will happen, erk!

Yeah I know. Fuck "pudding" for a common game of soldiers.

I want Godminster, pecorino peppato, Cornish blue and manchego.

Love cheese but again not a chip person

Can I have the whole shebang plus cheese a wine?

EmmaFreud do you want to go out for a 3 course dinner and we can have 3 desserts each?
That would be ideal RaspberryRipple

I'd definitely take cheese and crusty bread over anything sweet. Cause I'm not a dessert person.

...Said chipshop after a quick name change from sweetshop...

Anyone?

Goes with cheese and GU chocolate pudding.

revolting I think the upper class and working class eat pudding, whereas the middle class have dessert.

I like neither because they spoil the taste of my wine

Revolting - words like dessert, toilet and settee are frowned upon in some quarters because they are perceived as frenchified words being used by lower classes in an attempt to make themselves sound more cultured. Supposedly the upper classes say pudding, loo and sofa.

Also using the terms living room or front room marks you out as being lower class than those who have sitting rooms.

'Dessert' is so widely used to mean the sweet pudding served at the end of a meal that it's pretty much now correct. But yes, strictly, it means the fruit course, which was usually served between cheeses and pudding at elaborate meals.

But 'pudding' is never called 'sweet'. Years ago Smash Hits magazine ran an article where they interviewed loads of celebrities and asked them the same questions, one of which was 'what is your favourite sweet?'. They all responded with 'sherbet dibdab', 'toffees' etc, except for one of East 17 (I forget which one) who said something like 'apple crumble'. I couldn't understand how he'd misunderstood the question and only realised years later what he understood 'sweet' to mean...

I hate it when people say it as if to say you are greedy having a pudding. My SIL does this and it pisses me off as she is all holier than thou as she is 'sooooo full' but will proceed to eat a cheese board bigger than 4 desserts!

One of my other friends is not a pudding person but will happily admit she would eat her body weight in crisps instead!

I'm very picky about my desserts. Pavlova is the biz. As is sticky date and chocolate pudding.

Ice-cream? I'd sooner throw it at you.

We used 'sweets' as kids. "Muuuuum!! Wot's for sweets???"

We also said "Wots for tea??!" Common as muck, innit?

I love chocolate and cake but not at the end of a meal.

If I'm doing dinner for friends I will serve something sweet and something savory at the end of a meal, usually something cheesy (as in cheese based not something sung by steps) with enough plates and cutlery for everyone to have both if they want.

I'm definitely a pudding person. I always look at the pudding menu first before I decide whether I'm going to have a starter or not.

And tbh I'm not a 'pudding person' but I don't feel the need to say so. I'd rather have a brandy and a coffee and once upon a time a cigarette while everyone else has pudding.

"As for what it's called, come to Ireland and call it pudding. Then bask in the eye rolling and sniggering in your general direction."

I'm irish and we have always called pudding.......pudding. this has never been commented on or laughed at.

I know a couple of people who don't have a sweet tooth and tbh I am envious of them!

What does 'sweet' mean then? Some people use it to refer to dessert to pudding but I am not sure if this is correct or not?

Why do people take against those who don't like sweet things? There are comments on here about holier than though, and weirdness around food in general. Some people just don't like desserts, puddings, cakes, chocolate, etc because they don't. They aren't taking a pop at those who do. 'I'm not a dessert person' is often a polite way of saying 'no I don't want any of that grossly over sweet offering that you have spent half a day making and really really want me to eat'.

I'm not a dessert person btw. Can you tell

Only time I liked cake much was when I was pg.
Puddings, genuinely not interested.
Starters: always want 3.

I obviously don't eat 3 starters, unless ordering 1 as starter and 2 as main. Why are starters so much nicer than mains?