'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.

Definitely pudding.

You're right though. How can you not be a pudding person? You either feel like eating pudding and have room for it, or you don't feel like it and say 'no, I'm full ' no I'm just having coffee' 'no but any more wine left?'

I'm Irish and we always say dessert. The only person I know who says 'pudding' is a friend who lived in England for a few years. But then we also don't comment on people who say serviette or toilet both of which I understand are frightfully infra dig across the water.

ceres I have never in my life heard an Irish person say pudding. Until you now of course . Dessert only. Where abouts are you from out of curiosity?

In the case of Come Dine With Me, YANBU. Why go on a show set around a three course meal and then say you don't tend to eat one of the courses? I do realise you weren't explicitly referring to the show but when I saw your subject title that's what I thought it would be about!

I would quite happily order all the starters and work my way through until everyone else has got to dessert.

Is it infra dig to say infra dig?

Clearly I have no idea if this is a good thing or not.

I'm not a dessert pudding person. I usually don't have room for 3 courses, and faced with the choice, would rather sacrifice dessert for a starter. I love soup.

I'm not really a dessert person - I don't dislike cake etc but I find a lot of cakes and desserts disappointing. Chocolate that just tastes of sugar, any stuff that tastes fake and factory made...

I often like the starters better than anything else. Just give me a big fuck off bowl of garlic mushrooms or calamari and I'm as happy as Larry.

If there are certain things on the dessert menu I really like, such as homemade trifle then I will make room for one. I also like the mini desserts with coffee in Pizza Express, they are just right.

it was indeed a come dine with me rant. load of bollox.

Also I can't resist a slice of my mother in law's cakes. Or my own, most of the time. But I'd rather have a poke in the eye than a slice of Mr Kipling's Victoria Sponge.

I don't like disappointing pudding. If I'm not convinced it will taste good then I'd rather go without.

Whoever upthread said tapas though, I'm with you.

Its not the actual comment 'I am not a dessert person' that pisses me off it is the fact people say it suggesting the dessert eating person is being greedy or that they have so much more will power for not having dessert (then proceed to eat 2 tonnes of cheese and biscuits!)

I'm not a dessert person either, I'd much prefer a starter to a dessert but I couldn't eat all three as I'd pop!

I dont refuse dessert because I feel smug and ungreedy, I refuse it because I really don't like sweet food. Am more than happy to pig out on cheese.
I don't refuse dessert if I'm at someone else's house because I think its rude when someone has gone to the effort of preparing a dessert (or pudding!).

I'm not a desert person either. Hate sweet things. Whys it a silly thing to say?

Clover you are projecting. I say it and I have no hidden agenda. I'm just trying to politely get out of eating something I won't enjoy.

Definitely projecting.

I'm not fond of puddings, and don't order one in a restaurant. At a private dinner I'll eat one out of politeness. When entertaining I always make one, and it will be very very good.

Worsester I see how that post looks but in my 1st post I did actually sat that my friend is not a dessert person but always says she would happily eat her body weight in crisps so she isn't being smug or anything so I wasn't actually agreeing with the OP rather than saying IME when said in the way I describe (like my SIL does) can be quite unpleasant.

This is so often said by a dieter. As in " I get to look marvellous as I'm dieting! You obvs look shit coz you are eating that (hand to brow) dessert."

Said by mil. And I could shoot the old bat every time

Sorry I didn't see echts post at first. Why the ganging up - not really in the spirit and also we are all allowed opinions!

I can eat my body weight in chips with salt 'n vinegar - and bread with real butter and marmite - oh and bagels, salty popcorn or real pretzels but there are very few sweet things that do it for me, I used to crave chocolate "at that time of the month" but I'm many years past that so might have the odd one at Christmas - but it does not occur to me to buy sweet things - or have desserts/puddings unless it it is one I REALLY like (and there are a couple that I will have e.g. creme caramel - but I think that's because the sweetness is offset by the burnt taste) I love christmas pud and christmas cake - but the latter has to be the yorkshire way with cheese to offset the sweetness - and genuinely don't like many other cakes - a proper baked cheesecake can be nice but I'm truly indifferent to others.

OTOH, when I even think about fish and chips my mouth starts to water

I'm not a dessert person

I tend not to have pudding/dessert/sweet after a meal when I am out because I am too full and don't have room. Also most puddings in the places I eat at contain cream which upsets my stomach so I wouldn't eat it anyway.

I do enjoy sweet things, but tend to indulge on special occasions only.

Puddings are stodgy foodstuffs. They can form a subset of afters. No way is fruit a pudding unless it has something stodgy attached to it.

Also how else can you explain the best pudding of all - the black version.

Don't get me started on supper.

Not sure what your point is clover.

I was agreeing with the post by worcesester that said you were projecting, i.e. ascribing motivations to other people. Which you were: that is you assumed their motivation, a kind of magical thinking. You can't know what they were thinking when they didn't want puddings, so assumed an attitude. No-one's ganging up on you, just pointing out the flaws in your thinking.

I HATE dessert/afters/sweet referred to a 'pudding'.

Pudding is a particular type of dessert. It can also be savoury. It is not a catch-all term for sweet things consumed after a meal unless you are my DP. Ice cream is not a freaking PUDDING.

I particularly hate 'pud' and 'puddin'.

I have no opinion on dessert people, book people, cat people or the like.