To hate the word "pudding?"

[Misswrite89]

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

Definitely pudding here, but what's a cruet? From a few pages back, used as an example of a non-u word along with serviette and dessert.

There's no other suitable word, really, Flogging . I just hate the way it sounds. I can't explain it. If anyone can come up with an alternative, I'd be forever in their debt

"pouch" is unacceptable

Pudding, lounge, sofa. .. tea (unless going out for it when it becomes dinner), dinner (midday) unless going out for it, in which case its lunch...unless its a Sunday, in which case its Sunday Dinner... but always pudding!

Fink, cruet is the small containers that hold the condiments on the table.

I call it 'the salt & pepper'

"what's a cruet?"

It's the salt and pepper.

"If anyone can come up with an alternative, I'd be forever in their debt"

Could you go all Regency and change to a reticule instead?

It's all 3 feet tall phallic shaped pepper grinders these days, Fink. And salt is evil so is not allowed anymore.

Fair, I loathe the word pouch too. It made my toes curl just typing it.

I also loathe 'purse' and 'wallet', as well as 'portion' and 'batch'.

They all seem in some way I can't quite describe to be linked/similar...

Pudding is what I call DD so I love it.

I also call dessert pudding.

The Queen says pudding. Apparently.

You'd be disappointed with afternoon tea if there were no sandwiches or cake...

I never call salt/pepper containers cruets. At my house, we use salt and pepper grinders, but most people have salt and pepper shakers. I think of a cruet as a glass bottle that holds things like vinegar and oil.

I usually say pudding, even if it's fruit, at home but usually dessert in restaurant. I chop and change when I feel like it though. DH and DC say dessert. Technically though I would say something stodgy and delicious served with custard is pudding. Mmmm love a stodgy jam roly poly and custard. Hungry now.

Does the Class thing just apply to people whose Parents/Relatives are from the UK? How would you know by just listening to someone what there background was? We tend to use the words that we have grown up with.

I heard Dessert used growing up, there are a lot of French down one side of my family.

My Father used 'Afters', or named what it was, being from SA, that was his Norm.

I tend to speak in a full sentence so "do you want anything for after tea/dinner/lunch".

Also, I'd never think to say 'cruet' that's what contains the condiments.

"Pass the fish knives Bertrand Norman..

But I think you'll find it's "Send for......"

There is often an interesting correlation between the very posh and the very not posh. Both have an utter horror of the refained.......

Ah, I missed your lovely comment floggingmolly, nothing to do with being middle class, I just don't like the word youagressivelittleupstart

Thank you for telling what a cruet is. I don't think I've ever seen one. But I was born and raised old-fashioned upper middle with servants staff.

This thread has made me dash to Saintsbury's (I'm downwardly mobile) to buy some pudding wine).

Now off to shout at The Archers

PP hit the nail on the head:

if you have your pudding with your tea, you're "common"

If you have your pudding with your dinner/supper, you're "posh"

I have dessert because im worth it French

That doesn't add up, almostenglish, because in Scotland the evening meal is always tea or dinner, usually dinner, but I know plenty - myself included - who would have "pudding" afterwards but definitely aren't posh.

Pudding for me. Though I do say "dessert spoons". I wonder why. Maybe I'm partly common.
I've been trying to find an article I read in the Independent a while ago about dining at Buckingham Palace. It explained that the dessert course is served before pudding (as some pps have said) and it will typically be just a single piece of fruit, chosen from a platter ... and, wait for it ... eaten with a knife and fork. WTF? There were even specific ways to cut up different pieces of fruit. For example a banana had to be peeled and cut into discs with the knife, then eaten from the fork. Just weird, hey readers?

Just to digress, I think it's 'Phone for the fish knives, Norman' which come to think of it I don't really understand.

But it's definitely pudding. Not dessert, afters or sweet. Though I did once go to a pub that offered deserts

Haud : unless you have a fish supper or sausage supper!

Pudding all the way here.

birds yes you get clues to their background by the words they use. The English language has a lot of hidden meanings.

You need to know apparently so you don't mix with the wrong class.

Like the names you call your children. All secret signals. I often wonder whether other countries have such hidden meanings.