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Pudding or Dessert?

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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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mondaytosunday · 10/01/2023 20:18

Dessert

Donotgogentle · 10/01/2023 20:19

poetryandwine · 10/01/2023 19:34

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

Good point very well made.

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TheShellBeach · 10/01/2023 20:19

SocksAndTheCity · 10/01/2023 20:18

I would if it was made of pudding 😀

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So would I. I would anything if it was pudding.

In fact, I just have. I ate a toffee tart with cream and it had toffee sauce drizzled over the top.

I'd forgotten it was in the fridge.

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fairywoo · 10/01/2023 20:20

I've never said pudding in my life. It's always a dessert.

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TheShellBeach · 10/01/2023 20:21

alexdgr8 · 10/01/2023 20:18

now you're showing off, OP !

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As usual, according to my DC.

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123woop · 10/01/2023 20:21

Pudding!

SenecaFallsRedux · 10/01/2023 20:22

I'm American so it's dessert. Pudding is a category of dessert, like banana pudding, which is actually more technically a trifle.

Pudding or Dessert?
porpy · 10/01/2023 20:22

Dessert! I’ve always thought ‘pudding’ sounds really posh, like something the royal family would say lol

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 10/01/2023 20:22

You beat me to the Betjeman, @AutumnalLeaves38.

Pudding, but we try not to have it at home. DD has an ice lolly at weekends.

Freshstarts22 · 10/01/2023 20:23

Breakfast
lunch
dinner
afters

dessert if I’m in a restaurant or around people other than family as I must be subconsciously aware that afters sounds common (although my general dialogue and accent gives me away anyway 😂)
but always afters at home.

WhereIsMyRollingPin · 10/01/2023 20:23

Pudding. Our town has a tea shop which does Pudding Nights. Five or six puddings (small quantities of each). Some are what people would call a dessert but they call them all puddings 🙂

SocksAndTheCity · 10/01/2023 20:23

TheShellBeach · 10/01/2023 20:19

So would I. I would anything if it was pudding.

In fact, I just have. I ate a toffee tart with cream and it had toffee sauce drizzled over the top.

I'd forgotten it was in the fridge.

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And I am having Christmas pudding with cream, since M&S were selling them off at 75p the other day. I have another four in the cupboard Grin

FabFitFifties · 10/01/2023 20:26

Desert in our house, we didn't have desert growing up, I think if we ever did it was pudding, and sweet at school (70's primary). If we had pudding at home it would be a seperate treat, rather than tagged onto a meal.

FindingMeno · 10/01/2023 20:27

Afters.

FabFitFifties · 10/01/2023 20:27

Dessert! 🙄

Bideshi · 10/01/2023 20:29

Longwhiskers · 10/01/2023 20:07

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

Pudding here.

Tessisme · 10/01/2023 20:29

It's almost universally known as dessert here in NI. Pudding is only used to describe the specific type of hot dessert, such as Christmas, sponge, sticky toffee pudding etc.

Pudding always sounds like a particularly English expression to me. I always think of it in a Yorkshire accent😅😅 (Disclaimer, I love a Yorkshire accent!)

greenspaces4peace · 10/01/2023 20:32

Pudding is a specific item similar to custard. I would only say pudding if that what was on offer. Otherwise we’re having dessert. Who in their right mind would call cake pudding, or fruit salad pudding?

jojojanner · 10/01/2023 20:33

Pudding, there's something quite comforting about pudding.

EasterIsland · 10/01/2023 20:35

Pudding is a sweet dish at the end of a meal. Dessert is the course of fruit (with maybe cheese I think?) between the main course and pudding.

NoBoatsOnSunday · 10/01/2023 20:36

porpy · 10/01/2023 20:22

Dessert! I’ve always thought ‘pudding’ sounds really posh, like something the royal family would say lol

’Pudding’ is indeed what the RF say’

PristineSnow · 10/01/2023 20:37

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’.

But ‘dessert’ has class connotations too!

EasterIsland · 10/01/2023 20:37

@TheShellBeach you are very brave. This topic could start WWIII. Personally, I think anyone who calls pudding "the sweet" or "after" deserves to have grenades lobbed over their roof. Grin

poetryandwine · 10/01/2023 20:38

Thank you, @Donotgogentle . May I just say that your user name references one of my very favourite poems in any language ( not that I have many). I get something new every time I read it

EasterIsland · 10/01/2023 20:39

Pudding is a specific item similar to custard. I would only say pudding if that what was on offer. Otherwise we’re having dessert. Who in their right mind would call cake pudding, or fruit salad pudding?

Well I do, as does my whole extended family. So that's around 100 people you've called mad. Whereas I just think you're common.

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