Pudding or Dessert?

[TheShellBeach]

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

This is what's so daft about U to me. How is it unpretentious to literally pretend that you're plain speaking when you're not? Having a list of approved words is very affected.

John Betjeman would have a wry laugh at some of the comments!!

How To Get On In Society

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.
Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs in the grate.
It’s ever so close in the lounge dear,
But the vestibule’s comfy for tea
And Howard is riding on horseback
So do come and take some with me
Now here is a fork for your pastries
And do use the couch for your feet;
I know that I wanted to ask you–
Is trifle sufficient for sweet?
Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I’m afraid the preserve’s full of stones;
Beg pardon, I’m soiling the doileys
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.

Pudding in winter, dessert in summer. I have no idea why.

Pudding.

In a way I don't care what it's called. I just like eating it.

Does anyone eat flaked rice pudding? It's yummy. I make it with sultanas and a little nutmeg.

Don’t they call it ‘sweet’ in Scotland? That’s the only place I’ve heard it used like that.

Pudding doesn’t follow the entree in the UK!

afters

"afters"

Maybe some people do. I live in Scotland and I say pudding, but I don't think it matters.

I call it pudding but we hardly ever have it. Growing up, we always had something called pudding to follow a meal, even if was only a penguin biscuit or Angel Delight!

Dessert . No desserts for me at the moment. I'm trying to detox 😄

Pudding.

Oh yes, my MIL, who was London jewish, born in the 1920s, used to call it "sweet". Not THE sweet. "Are you having sweet?". No, I'm 'avin pud

Pudding, and always have it. Also 'settee'.

Dessert is fruit or cheese and comes after pudding, at least from what I remember.

Entree is only main course in America I though?

If British people use it at all, I thought it was another word for starter (but not one I use). We call main course “main course” don’t we?

Pudding. As mentioned above, dessert is fruit - but only in very smart circles, and eaten with a knife and fork, I think.
Sweet and/or afters - both just unthinkable!

My Mum for some reason, having always said pudding when we were young, has started calling it all kinds of mad things, and I’ve no idea why

Pudding

You eat settees?

I would if it was made of pudding 😀

now you're showing off, OP !

Dessert. I thought ‘pudding’ was a northern saying.