Pudding, sweet or dessert?

[marthamoo]

As prompted by Lonelymum's pancake thread.

We say "afters"! How common is that?!

Dessert here.

LOL martha - we've all gone very Debretts this weekend, haven't we?

Pudding for me. There's posh.

Very. I think pudding is to the point and unpretentious. Dessert maybe for a lighter dish. Sweet is just pretentious IMO (despite the fact my father uses it, or maybe because of it?)

Pudding here too - although we don't really eat it at home. Dessert is restaurant-ese, isn't it?

I wouldn't sat "afters" in public - I'd say pudding

Dessert, I think. Or point and say "that cake there please"

nowadays it's pud. when i was a kid it was afters

I put pancakes firmly in "necessity" category!. I trasped around three supermarkets to find pancake mix one night. And I'm not even pregnant yet!!
Though, if I have to conform, I'll say dessert.

I use all of them!

LOL @ Fred. 'Can you see it on the trolley?'

Pudding!

No I ate in the time you posted & it was fantastic!! LOL

Pudding! The boys always insist on 3!

(In my defence one of the three is fruit and one is yoghurt, and they're skinny as rakes.)

pudding.

At uni where I learnt very little about history and a lot about eating & drinking & dressing up, I discovered that dessert is actually just fruit, nothing deliciously calorific or chocolatey!

"Would you like a sweet?" is what you say if you're offering someone a Fruitella, isn't it?

Pudding usually, or sometimes 'pud'

Dh's father calls it 'Duff'!

pudding

Pudding.

'Afters' as a kid I think (not that we ever got one - JT was too skint, too mean and too scared of having chubby kids !)

Love ya really Mummy!

its a bad habit to get into ....

Today for pudding we are having apple crumble and custard - yum-meeee!!!!

Are you two mother and daughter????

How the hell did I miss that?

pudding sweet is chocolate etc and dessert is on a restaurant menu

mm

Marthamoo - how did you???!

Sweet is so naff. Brings to mind shitty little seaside hotels where you can get a three course Sunday lunch for about £5.99 (hmmmm wonder why?) and some illiterate half wit has scrawled the menu up on a blackboard and stuck it outside.

Starter
Roast
Sweet

I used to live near an (un) fun pub and the landlord was a master at this sort of thing. Once pointed out to him that he had mispelt both the welsh and English parts of his sign.
His response?
'Some people are soooo fussy! What does it matter?'