To hate the word "pudding?"

[Misswrite89]

I hate it when people use the word pudding instead of dessert. AIBU?

Ha, are you American? Perhaps you also call the main course an 'entree'?

I say both. Pudding if it has custard, dessert if it doesn't.

I do call the main course the entree. Or just the main course.

Me too Bunny - Pudding is what I call "afters" but it's a dessert menu in a restaurant. Also agree that Dessert is lighter & fluffier than Pudding I prefer pudding

Off topic but why do Americans write about applesauce? Do they also write about frenchdressing? Or barbecuesauce? I find that weird. Are they secretly German?

And yes definitely pudding. A) because it's a good sounding word, B) because it's very British and C) because it is a class marker and although I claim to disdain such things, I don't want anyone thinking I don't know what's what

Must try an orange

My grandmother's technique (part of her Swiss finishing school curriculum) was to cut off the top and the bottom of the orange, so it stood stably on her dessert plate, and then use the knife and fork to peel downwards in strips. Then you just use the knife and fork to cut up & eat. It's quite easy really.

My other grandmother always thought (but would never say) that napkin rings meant you were poor because it meant you didn't have a fresh napkin for each meal. She taught me to make sure I always leave my napkin crumpled up on or near my plate. I still do - well, it's easy enough to throw a cotton damask or linen napkin in the washing machine each night.

I don't like the word pudding, it reminds me of stodgy, sickly sweet cake, and I don't really like cake, I'm afraid to say! People try to foist it on me all the time and when I refuse, they assume I'm "trying to be good" and will tell me to stop being silly and just treat myself to a little bit...no-one seems to be able to get their heads round the fact I DO NOT LIKE CAKE.

There, I've said it

It's pudding!

Dessert is continental, so it must be better, no? Er 'what fop pud'?' would annoy me too.

Pudding is a course, not a type of food.

Go and sit in the corner, Sausages, you're in disgrace. On a thread like this, too!!

I say: Where's the fucking cake/ice cream?

But I live alone, so it's cool.

DH and MIL order a sweet and look at me all when I say pudding.

(DH is obsessed with the idea that he is working class and I'm some sort of bourgeois nightmare. Interestingly his sister nearly spat when he said that they were both working class. She's tried very hard not to be, and he's trying terribly hard to be as working class as possible. It's fascinating!)

Pudding is what I call my little baby girl.

I refer to the food variety as dessert and I think dessert sounds posher I don't say it because it's posh. Just putting them side by side I think dessert sounds posher

Is there is a North / South divide? I'm South.

I wonder about class.

My parents were definitely both of working class origins, however my dad joined the army and I had a rather middle class upbringing and didn't grow up in this country, so I have no roots here other than a place where I was born and left at three months old. I've been disabled since my early twenties, to the degree of being unable to work for the past decade, so I cannot look to my job or means to identify class either, and indeed I believe many would deem a life surviving on benefits to be some sort of underclass as I'm certainly not "working". I'm too posh for some people, and not posh enough for others.

So rather than looking at any sort of guidelines for fitting into any class bracket, I simply try to piss everyone off equally. In fact, that generally pissing people off thing has worked for me my entire life, nobody tries to tell me what to do or how to do it.

Arfarfanarf my mother (Welsh, not sure how that fits into the mix, but with Hyacinth tendencies) says serviette, settee, tea and pudding. She also used to name drop Lady X (an ordinary octogenarian neighbour who happened to be the last generation of an about to become extinct minor aristocratic family) with whom she was on nodding acquaintance terms) into conversation whenever possible... and uses napkin rings... which she calls serviette rings...

Saying pudding doesn't mean you are salt of the earth non pretentious nor that you are U (how it can be both is a bit baffling anyway).

Ooh, I want to see a list of class marking words to see where I fall.

Pudding surely. You can't call anything hot with custard a dessert. The same with rice pudding, bread and butter pudding etc.. They can't be called a dessert.

If it's cold maybe dessert is OK. I have cheese if I bother........and a cup of tea. Coffee is very over rated.

I did own some proper napkins once but after forty years of marriage they had only been used a handful of times so I shoved them in a Charity bag.

Whenever this subject comes up people always mention glass/mirror and scent/perfume. I say sofa, loo, pudding and napkin but does anyone under the age of 80 really say glass and scent? If so they obviously move in far posher circles than me.

Pudding is a beautiful word, amd a beautiful thing.
Yabu

Pudding comes from French originally too though. Almost all modern English comes from some other language.

Pudding is a kind of food that can be either a dessert or a savory dish. The word pudding is believed to come from the French boudin, originally from the Latin botellus, meaning "small sausage", referring to encased meats used in Medieval European puddings.

People objecting to desert as being "continental" might be being a wee bit hypocritical!

"Saying pudding doesn't mean you are salt of the earth non pretentious nor that you are U (how it can be both is a bit baffling anyway)."

The very posh and the very not posh have much more in common than either of them do to the lower middle classes- they both have an utter horror of the pretentious or refained...............

I know a 30 year old who says scent. However, she is very concerned anxious with social status and I suspect she has read a handbook on such things. She went to Marlborough and although she is fairly posh, there's always someone posher than you and I suppose it got to her somehow. Sad.

The very posh and the very not posh have much more in common than either of them do to the lower middle classes- they both have an utter horror of the pretentious or refained.........……

So true, BertrandR. I am old enough to remember that book by Jilly Cooper entitled 'Class'. VERY funny. Caroline and Harry Stowcrat et al.

I say scent. And no I am not anxious at all about my level of poshness. I just say what I was brought up to say.