To hate the word "pudding?"

[Misswrite89]

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

Pudding is a created confection. dessert is nuts and dates etc served after cheese.

Ha, who knew eating fruit with a knife and fork was upper class, rather than the savagery it sounds?

You're right about the phone, debbie

I have a special implement for eating my orange. Not sure if that's posh or common. Or just common sense.

Agree Abigail - a proper pudding is served with custard.

(Obv in our family we just have a couple of grapes if it's a special occasion so we don't use any of these words hides Ben & Jerry's )

honeylulu that's pretty standard. My grandmother learned how to peel and eat an orange with a knife and fork at her Swiss finishing school. It was a great party trick!

"For example a banana had to be peeled and cut into discs with the knife, then eaten from the fork. Just weird..."

Well, you're hardly going to eat one end on in front of the queen, or the Duke of Ed, (or Prince Harry ?)

Tinysombrero, true and now I could murder a sausage supper.

This thread keeps making me hungry!

A special implement? It sounds very posh.

Salt 'n' sauce?

I really want to know how to peel and eat an orange with a knife and fork!

If there's a similar method for conquering an avocado so I don't have to rinse off my fingers five times every time I prepare one I'll be delighted.

Pudding - fine.

'Pud' / 'Puds' - hell no.

Salt and sauce!!

Stop - you can't get that in England!

Pudding just sounds so much more substantial.

Dessert sounds a bit thin and mean.

According to dp, Escofierre who has written the cookbook bible tells the difference between puddings and deserts.

Dp also says that the correct general term is dessert and a pudding is a classification of dessert made from suet (originally steam pudding but you can now microwave some of them). You can also have a main course pudding too. E.g kidney pudding.

The majority of deserts are not pudding hence the reason most pudding have the word "pudding" after their names.

Soufflé, mousse, fondant are all desserts and not puddings.

Most puddings are either served warm or hot and he could only think of one which is served cold.

I have learnt bit from him today. It never really crossed my mind to know the difference.

I loathe the word pudding.

It makes me think of very round, snotty, red faced children. No idea why.

onlylovers
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One element of class markers is that upper- and working-class ones often resemble each other. It's the insecure middle classes (so the narrative goes) who try to distinguish themselves by using pseudo-posh terminology. The upper and working classes are happy/resigned to be where they are in society.*

This is sooooo true! I just nodded along with it.

I'm from a mixed background. Parents separated. Mothers working class, father middle. Father says dessert, mother says pudding. I'm in Yorkshire, pudding and 'afters' are very much the markings of the working class. It's a dessert menu, not a pudding menu so I use dessert.

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

I have just asked dp about pudding wine, his response is that it must be a slang word.

It's fab flogging it cuts and removes the peel otherwise you get it all in your hands and fingernails. Always slightly worried when I go to large outdoor events in case they check my picnic basket for sharp implements. Mind you I don't think a middle aged woman carrying matching set of picnic ware is likely to alarm anyone.

I don't mind either but DH hates pudding too, preferring dessert. He's a foreigner though so not his fault. He also prefers to say serviette rather than napkin, and got very annoyed when I told them they were class markers in the UK

Afters here . Very northern and very working class but living in the Midlands now.

Also *I have no preference but can't say "pudding" without in my head saying it in the style of the Grandad in Bread in a strong spouse accent.

"Where's me pudding?!"*

Grandad didn't have a scouse accent. The rest of them did, obvs.

Pudding is actually a proper course. Solid, sweet, spongy, dense: sticky toffee springs to mind. You'll sleep well after 'pudding'.

Deseret however, hmm, another character. Something like lemon sorbet - light, a bit sweet, bit flaky really.

Know what I prefer.

Dessert is something you might eat in your lounge..

Does anyone know if the Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding factory delivers abroad?

I've just ordered one from Lakeland, HeadoftheHive. Never knew such a thing existed. Should do wonders for the old scurvy, now that I can get some Vitamin C again...