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Pudding or Dessert?

276 replies

TheShellBeach · 10/01/2023 18:27

.........or even "Sweet" or "Afters"? What do you call it?
And what do you have, if anything?

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DinDjarin · 10/01/2023 18:28

Pudding if it's hot, dessert if it's cold. More or less!

Findyourneutralspace · 10/01/2023 18:28

Pudding. Dessert is a bit Hyacinth Bucket for me.

Iam4eels · 10/01/2023 18:29

Pudding.

Findyourneutralspace · 10/01/2023 18:29

I really want pudding now. I’ve just finished my tea.

Doje · 10/01/2023 18:30

Pudding if I'm at home, dessert if I'm out for dinner!

BamBamBilla · 10/01/2023 18:30

Pudding

whiteroseredrose · 10/01/2023 18:30

Pud

SpanishSalsaing · 10/01/2023 18:30

Can I have both, please?

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 10/01/2023 18:30

Pudding - dessert is a bit pretentious.

Soapnotshowergel · 10/01/2023 18:30

Pudding at home.
Dessert in restaurants.
Pud puds for the kids.
Not even slightly sorry about that last one

notacooldad · 10/01/2023 18:31

I use all of those words interchangeably.

FlashAhhh · 10/01/2023 18:32

Pudding.
We have things like
Chocolate mousse
Yoghurts
Swiss roll
Ice cream
Angel delight
Jelly (with/ without ice cream)
Choc brownies
Flapjack
Millionaires shortbread

Kissedbyfire1 · 10/01/2023 18:32

Pudding. Could live with dessert but not sweet or afters. No.

DouglasTea · 10/01/2023 18:33

Dessert!

Pudding is black, white, suet or even bread & butter. Ie stodgy and heavy and intended to necessarily bulk out food for those working serious physical jobs like farming or down th'mines!

Dessert says ice cream or lemon posset. Chocolate mousse and the like: light and luxurious and indulgent.

Yesterdaywasntreal · 10/01/2023 18:33

We say dessert for everything We would specify pudding for the dessert if it is steamed/hot oven cake, for instance sticky toffee/chocolate/treacle pudding. I know Americans use pudding for a chocolate/banana etc creamy dessert like an angel delight thing.

poetryandwine · 10/01/2023 18:33

In my home country and in America where I Iived before coming to the UK, it’s ‘dessert’. A pudding is a specific type of dessert.

I have been informed that ‘pudding’, ‘sweet’ and possibly ‘afters’ have class connotations in the UK. That is enough to convince me to stick with ‘dessert’.

ZacharinaQuack · 10/01/2023 18:34

Pudding, and I have it when DS is asleep, so he doesn't call it anything

Original poster
TheShellBeach · 10/01/2023 18:35

ZacharinaQuack · 10/01/2023 18:34

Pudding, and I have it when DS is asleep, so he doesn't call it anything

Lol

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TheShellBeach · 10/01/2023 18:36

Mmm. Love lemon posset.

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tedgran · 10/01/2023 18:37

Pudding, dessert feels pretentious

Stichintime · 10/01/2023 18:37

Never have it, but call it afters. May be desert in a restaurant. Never, ever pudding or sweet!

pelargoniums · 10/01/2023 18:38

Pudding in all circs. Dessert is frightful.

XJerseyGirlX · 10/01/2023 18:38

@Stichintime I call it 'afters' too

Geppili · 10/01/2023 18:38

Pudding. My mother would shudder if anyone used the D word. 😂

sanityisamyth · 10/01/2023 18:40

Pudding.

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