Pudding or Dessert?

[TheShellBeach]

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

Cheese and biscuits!

Posh people have dessert AND pudding, I believe.
They are two different courses.

Desert but I'm Irish. Pudding is eaten with a fried breakfast.

Pudding.
Dessert is for people who use toilets. I know this because I've learned some arbitrary rules made up by folk who consider themselves posh

Pudding. Though I'll call it dessert if offering to bring one to a party/bbq.

Where do pudding people go for a wee?

So, @Geppili , @pelargoniums what is it about this insular little island that makes the word ‘dessert’, which lacks class connotations in countries that are manifestly functioning better, ‘frightful’ and something to make an older woman ‘shudder’?

This is quite true. The correct word is "lavatory".
Well, not for the course which follows the entree.

The bog, normally. Or the loo.

The lavatory.

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’.

Yes dessert and sweet are non-U.

Indeed.

This.

Pudding. Hot or cold, it's always pudding.
I can remember when restaurants would have a sweet trolley.

I'm totally "non-U" - common as muck - and I say pudding.

Because the UK and MN in particular is absolutely obsessed with class.

Dessert. Pudding is a type of dessert.

When I hear (or read) pudding meaning dessert it makes me ragey.

Pudding is in a bowl, dessert comes on a plate.

The shitter

Actually I think dessert is fruit. So DS does get that, I'm not a monster.

I think posh and working class people have a lot of vocab in common. Dessert etc are used more by people in the middle.

Pud. We don't even bother with the ding. Just pud. Dessert definitely feels like it's trying to be posh, although I accept that strictly speaking an actual pudding is a type of dessert. But it's like nobody says vacuuming now, it's hoovering even though technically most people don't own hoovers.

@RagzRebooted
Pudding people wee in the loo or lavatory.

Arbitrary rules to identify the common folk.

Daft innit?

The very idea! We do not. It’s the loo.

Dessert, because it was always dessert in my (very working-class, northern) home when I was growing up.

Although I'm being a tad inconsistent there, because I don't call lunch dinner or the sofa the settee. 😄

Dessert. Pudding sounds too Oliver twist and it makes me think of American chocolate pudding.