Pudding or Dessert?

[TheShellBeach]

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

Ooh I fancy some mince pies now.

This.

Puddings are just that, puddings. Hot and usually with custard. They key is 'pudding' is a cooked hot sweet dish served after the main meal.

Dessert is a cold sweet dish served after the main meal.

Both are correct depending on what is served.

That the equivalence between U and ‘correct’ goes unremarked is quite striking to some of us who did not grow up here. I would be willing to bet that in France, Germany or America -to name just three countries with functioning health systems and reasonable, consumer friendly energy policies - this unquestioning equivalence would be very difficult to imagine. Then there is all of Scandinavia, the haven of life well lived, where the notion is laughable

An honest question: where is magic, if you are not born of the very small class it protects? Is the stress of training up worth the rewards? As a foreign academic married into a fairly well established family this question doesn’t bother me personally very much. I am honestly baffled

I use any of the suggested terms, as my family is a mixed bag in both geographic and class terms.

Contrary to most on the thread, I find the snooty insistence on "pudding" way more pretentious than "dessert", because fussing about U and non-U is very silly.

I'm sure it ought to be non-U to wang on about how U you are, to the extent that the words plebs use make you shudder, but apparently not.

Pudding at home

Dessert at a restaurant (because that’s what they call it on the menu).

Never sweet or afters!

We have:

pie
crumble
ice cream
chocolate mousse
fruit
chocolate biscuits
yoghurt with topping
trifle
boiled pudding
gateux
cheesecake
chocolate cake

yum yum!

Quite true.

Pudding if eating at home
Dessert if eating out

@TheShellBeach I thought that as a question of linguistic anthropology, your OP was fine. I ‘ve not intended to criticise it

Pudding

Mostly I say desert.
Although not sure why but of late "afters" has crept in.

Pudding, regardless of what it is. Even if it’s a bar of chocolate 😂

I don’t care what anyone else says though.

Well quite. Folk such as yourself who are common as muck, are also very plain speaking and down to Earth. Just like the aristocracy and upper class who have no need for pretensions.

Pudding. Always. Never anything else in any context, ever.

Depends if I’m speaking with my northern relatives and which meal it is.

Hole in the garden?

Out the window?

In a pan held by their butler?

I know the answer to this is the loo, but it’s a question with such possibilities…

Dessert.

I’m surprised how overwhelmingly the responses favour ‘pudding’, don’t feel like I encounter it often!

Pudding for the children.

Desert if an adult dinner party

None if it's just DH and I eating alone

I’ve always called it pudding. But my Gran who was ‘in service’ as a girl in the 1920’s called it ‘the sweet’, as in the sweet course. I think that’s how they often referred to it then.

Pudding for each and every occasion. Even if it says "dessert" on the menu (shudder) it's "pudding".

Also, never "lounge" or "patio".

Pudding or afters

Pudding. Always.

Afters.

Also call my evening meal 'tea'