To hate the word "pudding?"

[Misswrite89]

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

Id say the French have a pretty intense set of class rules too including what sort of French you speak.

In cities it matters if your grammar is wrong, and if you sound foreign or make grammar mistakes (in German).. in the countryside it matters whether you say Junge or Bube, or Mädchen or Madel... at (my) work my patients/customers embrace me because I have weird foreign accent yet say Latzerl not Klieder Schemer and Mädel not Mädchen, and say Schaumal and Jetza a lot... in other areas (cities) the same expressions would go down like a lead balloon... I think city v rural and level of (perceived according to state school category) education, and __East v West Germany are the social dividers here...

I suspect in countries where the vast majority of people go to state schools (as in France) the whole class thing is more of a shruggable matter than in Britain.

Everything is shruggable in France Math

The Darlings, orlandofuriosa ?

Thumbwitch - we watched it online on ABC iView . It's not on currently ( there was only one or two series iirc- it's a few years old), but you may find its still online somewhere. Otherwise, buy the dvd from the ABC shop. It's extremely funny. Basically a woman in her 30s/40s (raised by an extremely snobby upper middle class family), realises she was adopted,and her bio family are bogans (live in a Mc mansion, involved in car racing...)
It's comedy much more than social commentary...and yet...

Oh cool, thanks for the tip, I'll look out for it. As a general aside, did you know that ABC are closing ALL their shops? Online buying and Neflix etc. have buggered them (Got told this in Jan by a very disgruntled ABC shop employee)

I did read that, yes. It's very sad, I love the ABC shop! I think they will still be online? Not the same though :(
I haven't posted much for several years, but I recognise your name I think. Are you the same thumbwitch from 6 or so years ago? mathanxiety is another name that seems familiar. I didn't expect to see familiar names after so long! (I just started back on mn as fell pregnant again and have terrible sickness, so spending long hours on the couch bored...)

Yup. Don't think I've got the name wrong... V old, v unobtrusive, Vic money.

And a family we knew in S Australia, loads of premiers in the family, bought in drought and famine. But don't boost about it. Reverse of nouveau.

indeed it is. Maybe that is the next big French thing that should be adopted..

I have been here for far too many years, Astrophe. Congratulations, and welcome back (and hope your morning sickness passes soon )

Pud!!!!! Urrgh! Unacceptable!

Pud?! That's horrendous.

Why?

Stumbled across this today and couldn't resist posting it here having followed the pudding/dessert debate......!

That was so funny - he is so sure that he is right!

It still doesn't explain the widespread and older use of pudding as a word to describe a food , sweet or savoury, wrapped in a casing or cloth. I sense cultural appropriation .

I clearly remember long ago at university being (rudely) corrected by (then) boyfriend, who was an old Etonian, for NOT saying 'pudding'!

Eton mess?

I remember always laughing at an Old Etonian friend at uni for calling an informal evening meal 'supper' rather than 'dinner'. 15 years later and I now say 'supper' without quite knowing when I switched and whether it was a deliberate affectation or just subconciously picking up on what people around me say.

Ummm I've just eaten pudding - chocolate cheesecake with fresh raspberries and a dollop of whipped fresh double cream, yum. I love pudding and I love the word 'pudding'. Pudding, pudding, pudding, pudding! I would rather have pudding than dinner.

This is actually DH's pet name for me when he wants to wind me up . Needless to say I hate it in all its forms.

YANBU. It's a horrible word. Dessert or sweet are far more preferable

Pudding is perfectly OK in the vlad household if preceded by the words "sticky toffee". Not otherwise.
Dessert: something lightish and borderline fancy
Handing small child a yoghurt: definitely afters!
Sweet is an adjective not a noun, unless it's a toffee.
Pud: never!