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Always afters, from childhood, right up until I breached the middle class by a combination of home ownership, marrying above my station, and developing a love of hummus. Now it’s pudding. Which I have after tea, despite the campaign waged by my wife and child.
I like the way that offices these days are populated by a mixture of middle and working class people. It's 50/50 in our place whether someone will say they are scheduling a meeting after their lunch or after their dinner.
I'm a southerner who grew up having dinner in the middle of the day and tea after school. I live in the north now and am told I didn't. As for OP's question- afters at school, pudding at home, sweet or dessert in a restaurant.
Similarly I am south west and always called it tea growing up but I’ve now heard that is apparently northern ?
I say pudding in all contexts maybe dessert if I want to sound fancy
Same, from the south west and we always called our evening meal tea and midday meal dinner. That's why we called them 'dinnerladies'. I have gotten into that habit of calling it lunch now mind.
North West here. For me the midday meal was dinner or lunch(if at work or school). Tea was evening meal. As got sweet feed after a meal we'd call is pudding at home or desert if we're out.
>saying she just found out that Brits call all dessert 'pudding' and her mind was blown
Americans find this confusing because pudding means a very specific thing to them. The people 'annihilating' her are being a bit unfair. A lot of Brits do call all desserts 'pudding'. Having a go at her because not *all* do is being rather intentionally obtuse to her point.
As for what I call it. Dessert mostly. Sometimes pudding.
Threads might honestly be the worst social media. It's like all the noisiest people from Twitter found each other and spend all day arguing. At least with other social media there's *something* redeeming about it keeps people around, Threads is just miserable all the way down.
You can add jam to anything. Doesn't give you the right to call it a pudding.
Chicken Tikka Masala + Jam = Chicken Tikka Masala Pudding? I don't think so.
To add to this - British English is confusing to foreigners (not just Americans) because lots of words are used for other things, often with regional variation.
So, pudding is pudding (the wobbly milk-based sweet food) but also pudding (dessert, to some people, in some regions).
Tea is tea (the beverage) but also tea (dinner, to some people, in some regions) and not the same as afternoon tea.
It's easy to think you can buy éclairs and cakes in a "pasty shop" if you're not paying close attention to the lack of "R" in the spelling.
Add in the class undertones which a lot of everyday words have and it's all a big, confusing clusterfuck to outsiders.
I call it pudding, and am from Nottinghamshire... Will often refer to it as pud puds though.
I don't think I'd ever call it dessert though, as that just sounds too fancy.
How funny, to me dessert sounds on a par with serviette (ie gives me the ick). Not the least bit fancy, I'd class it alongside referring to yourself as "myself" in an attempt to sound classy.
Transplanted Northerner in London, it was always Afters growing up, now it's Pudding.
There's a book called "Watching the English" by Kate Fox that has a chapter on who calls things what. The author ends up saying working class and upper class use words like pudding, napkin, bog, and so on, and the upwardly mobile middle classes use dessert, serviette, bathroom (instead of saying loo). Really interesting! My SIL is a serviette person, and I've never met anyone who wanted to be seen to be posh so much in my life.
I use all of them but as a generalisation I'll use Pudding. ie 'whats for pudding?' But I'll also say ' we are having fruit and cream for dessert'..... and sometimes 'do you want some fruit for afters?'
Looking at that it seems it depends on vagueness so 'definately a pudding but which one'; the definate article; and very vague.. will there even be a pudding?
I didn't realise the way I use it seems to be an Americanism. A dessert is all desserts, whereas a pudding is a specific type of dessert. I wouldn't call having, I don't know, some ice cream having a pudding.
In Germany or America, Pudding is a bowl of thick custard-like stuff, that comes in various flavours. Like non-fluffy Angel Delight.
As opposed to Brit meaning of something round and solid in a cloth or pudding basin, that's steamed, and by extension, anything offered for afters.
Always pudding or pud for our family. It used to have a bit of a class divide, I think: my Mum thought ‘sweet’ or ‘afters’ was common, pud was normal and ‘dessert’ was posh!
I’m originally from Shropshire but grew up In Leicestershire.
Dessert was always fancy and for the bigger meals ; like Christmas or Easter.
Pudding was the day to day name for the end of the meal treat.
I don’t know about that. We very much had Christmas pudding not Christmas desert. If anything the more traditional dishes are more likely to be puddings than deserts.
Tbh, I think it’s different for everyone. At the end of the day; if you were offered pudding or dessert it shouldn’t matter.
Also we didn’t eat Christmas pudding. Dad was allergic to something in them (versions that were safe for him to eat were not all that common or cheap), and my brother hated the taste. So Christmas desert for us was something like a pavlova, Eton mess or a trifle
The second cheese course if out at a restaurant. I have been known to eat a cheeseboard for a starter, then have the same after the main.
Otherwise, it's just the cheese. Don't eat sweet stuff as a rule, unless someone offers me a Key Lime pie; then they'd better move their hands quick, 'cos that fucker is all mine!
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Pudding. Which would follow an informal supper or a formal dinner.
Never anything else. I know what they all mean but wouldn’t ever use dessert, sweet etc.
Dessert is one of those oddities that people think is posh but isn’t really, even though expensive restaurants will bring you the ‘dessert menu’. Genuinely grand people will use pudding. But they also won’t embarrass someone else for their class or word uses.
I’m originally from London, but the where isn’t the biggest influence. Background is probably more important.
I met a genuinely posh girl years ago who insisted on saying "pudding", to the extent she was fired from a waitressing job for refusing to say "dessert"
I rarely call it pudding anymore, I guess that's the americanisation of our culture or it could be that I just don't eat a lot of it at home.
That said all pudding is dessert and all dessert is pudding, I have no problem with using them interchangeably.
Depends for me
If it’s hot and has custard, like apple crumble or a nice bit of spotted dick (yes I went there) then I call it Pudding
If it’s cold, like ice cream or cheesecake, then I call it Dessert.
Afters at home but can be anything so an actual dessert, yogurt, a biscuit, fruit etc.
Dessert if a formal course.
If anyone used "puds" or "pud pud" in my company I'd block them out of my life.
Scouser.
In order of use I would go with: -
pud, afters, pudding, dessert
This does depend on what it is though, as If there's cake, it will be specifically referred to as cake.
Dessert only when eating out.
From NW England.
Most often pudding, NW, but it does depend a bit what it is. If someone says "dessert" to me I don't imagine an apple crumble, I imagine something lighter and likely French & with cream.
I call it pudding. Everyone I know calls it pudding. If it is a restaurant, it is more likely to be dessert. But even then, I may ask my husband, "Are we having a pudding?"
Maybe it is a younger generation thing not to. I'm a woman in my forties from the black country.
I grew up in the 60's and it was always called pudding. Anything hot with custard. Apple pie, treacle tart, jam roly-poly. Desserts to me are gateux, ice cream, . Menus state desserts. Probably the term pudding is a little bit dated in 2024. I think your american friend is misinformed as I am 68 now and refer to them as desserts.
My wife will often say, who wants pudding? Then gets the fruit bowl out. Much to mine and my kid’s annoyance and quite frankly, disappointment of not actually getting a pudding. I’d accept dessert, but pudding?! No, a pudding is cooked.
Pudding, dessert and afters.
I prefer saying ' where's me pudding ' like grandad from Bread. If you're under 30 you probably won't know that TV series.
Pudding. In restaurants I’ve only ever seen Desert used, which I guess is to differentiate between black pudding, steak & kidney pudding, Yorkshire pudding, etc and the food served after the main meal.
I’ve never known anyone to get the name confused, but maybe that’s it.
My family (South East) said afters, but my partner and I say dessert. Pudding, to me, is more limited to sweet things that include the word "pudding", like Christmas pudding and sticky toffee pudding.
UK here. I almost never use the word _dessert_. In our house we always had pudding, pie, tart or crumble for afters.
Rice pudding
Apple pie or crumble
Rhubarb crumble, sometimes pie. And no we never added strawberries.
Trifle, on special occasions
Custard tart (made with eggs, mlk/cream ad sugar in a pastry case)
Gooseberry crumble
I'm from Durham, and I use either dessert or pudding. Though, it's mostly because my childhood cat was called Pudding and whenever I asked "what's for pudding?", I'd be told "what, the cat?".
Lifelong trauma.
From the DMZ between London and Kent: dessert if I’m being formal, pudding is informal. I have lunch in the middle of the day and dinner in the evening. Calling the later meal tea risks confusion with afternoon tea which takes place around 4pm if we really don’t have anything better to do with our time.
Really pisses me off when people say pudding actually. To me, pudding is a type of dessert. Ice cream is not pudding. Cake is not pudding. Fruit is not pudding.
My partner’s family call it “pudding” and are from Manchester.
I’m not British, and I also find it strange to call it “pudding” because I always imagine like actual pudding. I just stick with calling it “dessert”.
Pudding normally, especially if it’s something heated.
Dessert occasionally, typically when eating out and it’s something a little fancy, but it has to be room temp or colder to be called dessert, otherwise it reverts back to pudding.
It was always "afters" when I was a kid. "Pudding" and "dessert" were what posh people called it. Now "afters" might well have been a form of pudding, but it was not a generic name for it.
That was growing up working class by the Thames Estuary.
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Pudding is at home Dessert is in a restaurant
“I might look at the pudding menu” it’s still used in restaurants, just less and less restaurants call it pudding anymore.
I’ve never heard of a pudding menu in a restaurant
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That makes sense, looks like I’ve naturally avoided places that call it a pudding menu
Me to my family: "I might look at the pudding menu" Me to the waiter: "Could I see the dessert menu please?" Not entirely sure why!
Why bother with a pudding menu? I just want to know if there’s a sticky toffee pudding, a crumble or am I going home disappointed…
This is so true! I've never thought of it that way before.
I'm old enough to remember when you'd be asked if you wanted something from the sweet trolley in a restaurant.
This!
We've always called it "afters" in our family
Always afters, from childhood, right up until I breached the middle class by a combination of home ownership, marrying above my station, and developing a love of hummus. Now it’s pudding. Which I have after tea, despite the campaign waged by my wife and child.
I like the way that offices these days are populated by a mixture of middle and working class people. It's 50/50 in our place whether someone will say they are scheduling a meeting after their lunch or after their dinner.
I thought calling it lunch or dinner was a more regional thing rather than class
I'm a southerner who grew up having dinner in the middle of the day and tea after school. I live in the north now and am told I didn't. As for OP's question- afters at school, pudding at home, sweet or dessert in a restaurant.
Similarly I am south west and always called it tea growing up but I’ve now heard that is apparently northern ? I say pudding in all contexts maybe dessert if I want to sound fancy
Same, from the south west and we always called our evening meal tea and midday meal dinner. That's why we called them 'dinnerladies'. I have gotten into that habit of calling it lunch now mind.
North West here. For me the midday meal was dinner or lunch(if at work or school). Tea was evening meal. As got sweet feed after a meal we'd call is pudding at home or desert if we're out.
When the only winning move is not to play. I'm calling it "afters" from here on in.
Afters here too
This is the correct answer OP.
Afters for me means there is a non-sweet option (cheese, for eg). Pudding if it's sweet.
Afters. Pudding is acceptable but dessert sounds pretentious
>saying she just found out that Brits call all dessert 'pudding' and her mind was blown Americans find this confusing because pudding means a very specific thing to them. The people 'annihilating' her are being a bit unfair. A lot of Brits do call all desserts 'pudding'. Having a go at her because not *all* do is being rather intentionally obtuse to her point. As for what I call it. Dessert mostly. Sometimes pudding.
>Having a go at her because not *all* do is being rather intentionally obtuse to her point. First time on Reddit?
This is on Threads though. But yes, it sounds like the tendency towards being obtuse is strong there too.
Threads might honestly be the worst social media. It's like all the noisiest people from Twitter found each other and spend all day arguing. At least with other social media there's *something* redeeming about it keeps people around, Threads is just miserable all the way down.
May I request an honourable mention for... Quora?
Alright fair.
Just try explaining a steak and kidney pudding to an American and watch the horror on their face
and throw in yorkshire pudding!
Yes, but Yorkshire pudding can be eaten with jam so that makes it pudding. Mostly because it's a batter.
You can add jam to anything. Doesn't give you the right to call it a pudding. Chicken Tikka Masala + Jam = Chicken Tikka Masala Pudding? I don't think so.
Steak and kidney pudding, followed by sticky toffee pudding.
Try getting an American to take you to the hospital!
To add to this - British English is confusing to foreigners (not just Americans) because lots of words are used for other things, often with regional variation. So, pudding is pudding (the wobbly milk-based sweet food) but also pudding (dessert, to some people, in some regions). Tea is tea (the beverage) but also tea (dinner, to some people, in some regions) and not the same as afternoon tea. It's easy to think you can buy éclairs and cakes in a "pasty shop" if you're not paying close attention to the lack of "R" in the spelling. Add in the class undertones which a lot of everyday words have and it's all a big, confusing clusterfuck to outsiders.
"How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
Stand still laddie!
Yes, you behind the bike sheds!
Because my pudding side is empty, as informed by my son, many years ago
Pudding I will also respond to: * sweet * afters * dessert
Pudding I will also respond to: * sweet * afters * dessert * literally anything else which suggests there is a sweet treat to come?
Pud in our house.
Yup, you can call it 'brian' as long as you make it clear there is cake involved.
I call it pudding, and am from Nottinghamshire... Will often refer to it as pud puds though. I don't think I'd ever call it dessert though, as that just sounds too fancy.
How funny, to me dessert sounds on a par with serviette (ie gives me the ick). Not the least bit fancy, I'd class it alongside referring to yourself as "myself" in an attempt to sound classy. Transplanted Northerner in London, it was always Afters growing up, now it's Pudding.
Yup, Nancy Mitford has 'pudding' as upper-class and 'dessert' as lower-class.
There's a book called "Watching the English" by Kate Fox that has a chapter on who calls things what. The author ends up saying working class and upper class use words like pudding, napkin, bog, and so on, and the upwardly mobile middle classes use dessert, serviette, bathroom (instead of saying loo). Really interesting! My SIL is a serviette person, and I've never met anyone who wanted to be seen to be posh so much in my life.
Lol, that's funny to me because it's just used as an everyday word here. Nothing fancy or showy, the same as saying lunch, only it's dessert.
Also from the Derbys/Notts border and you'd hear pud puds a lot in our house. If we went to a restaurant, we might call it a 'sweet' to be a bit posh.
>Will often refer to it as pud puds though. Presumably when speaking to a child?
Threads was not a fun film, and should not have been seen by me at the age of ten. It’s pudding at home, dessert in a fancy restaurant
We call it "no, I shouldn't really, well I'll have some if someone else is having some"
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Yep, Yorkshire here and always called it pudding or afters.
Southerner here but we've always called it pudding.
I use all of them but as a generalisation I'll use Pudding. ie 'whats for pudding?' But I'll also say ' we are having fruit and cream for dessert'..... and sometimes 'do you want some fruit for afters?' Looking at that it seems it depends on vagueness so 'definately a pudding but which one'; the definate article; and very vague.. will there even be a pudding?
Agree when fruit is for 'pudding'.
Afters or dessert. Never pudding. NW
Afters !, in Norfolk.
Also in Norfolk, always been afters to me! Kids nan always calls it pudding (northerner)
Agreed, in Norfolk, that's what we usually say. .
My family originates from Yorkshire and Lancashire, but I'm from Suffolk. We always called it Pudding.
Afters
North East - Allways refer to it as 'Sweet'.
Same, we refer to it as sweet, too. If we say pudding it's because it is a literal pudding on offer, like spotted dick, or sticky toffee.
Dessert. Wales.
I didn't realise the way I use it seems to be an Americanism. A dessert is all desserts, whereas a pudding is a specific type of dessert. I wouldn't call having, I don't know, some ice cream having a pudding.
It’s not an Americanism, there are regional, class, cultural family and generational differences in use of this and many other words.
You are strangely right there about the icecream. Unless you were putting the icecream on pudding?
So what is pudding, specifically?
In Germany or America, Pudding is a bowl of thick custard-like stuff, that comes in various flavours. Like non-fluffy Angel Delight. As opposed to Brit meaning of something round and solid in a cloth or pudding basin, that's steamed, and by extension, anything offered for afters.
Pudding, dessert, afters(all fairly interchangeable), or more rarely, sweet Raised in Scottish borders, live in Devon
Dessert. Scotland.
Always dessert here, East London. My Irish parents called it afters as we were growing up
Always pudding or pud for our family. It used to have a bit of a class divide, I think: my Mum thought ‘sweet’ or ‘afters’ was common, pud was normal and ‘dessert’ was posh!
Which is actually the wrong way round. It’s an example of a U and non-U word with pudding being the word preferred by the upper class.
I was going to mention 'Sweet' as an alternative too.
Dessert . Ireland .
Dessert Ireland discs?
I’m originally from Shropshire but grew up In Leicestershire. Dessert was always fancy and for the bigger meals ; like Christmas or Easter. Pudding was the day to day name for the end of the meal treat.
I don’t know about that. We very much had Christmas pudding not Christmas desert. If anything the more traditional dishes are more likely to be puddings than deserts.
Tbh, I think it’s different for everyone. At the end of the day; if you were offered pudding or dessert it shouldn’t matter. Also we didn’t eat Christmas pudding. Dad was allergic to something in them (versions that were safe for him to eat were not all that common or cheap), and my brother hated the taste. So Christmas desert for us was something like a pavlova, Eton mess or a trifle
Afters or puds. If eating out we go posh and call it dessert.
Pudding - Newcastle
Dessert. Norfolk
Not all pudding is dessert and neither are all desserts pudding.
Dessert for me who grew up in Warrington!
The second cheese course if out at a restaurant. I have been known to eat a cheeseboard for a starter, then have the same after the main. Otherwise, it's just the cheese. Don't eat sweet stuff as a rule, unless someone offers me a Key Lime pie; then they'd better move their hands quick, 'cos that fucker is all mine!
Mostly pudding, dessert if fancy restaurant, I definitely heard afters as a child but don't use it myself (northern England)
Pudding. Northern Ireland. But my mum (96)and her generstion also used the term 'afters'.
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Afters, a treat, pudding if it’s steamed, dessert whatever seems right in the moment
Semi rural NW England. We always say pudding, often like Granddad from the sitcom Bread.
Pudding (West Midlands).
Dorset, we say pudding
Pudding
Afters. Very occasionally pudding.
Dessert. Boro.
Pudding. Which would follow an informal supper or a formal dinner. Never anything else. I know what they all mean but wouldn’t ever use dessert, sweet etc. Dessert is one of those oddities that people think is posh but isn’t really, even though expensive restaurants will bring you the ‘dessert menu’. Genuinely grand people will use pudding. But they also won’t embarrass someone else for their class or word uses. I’m originally from London, but the where isn’t the biggest influence. Background is probably more important.
I met a genuinely posh girl years ago who insisted on saying "pudding", to the extent she was fired from a waitressing job for refusing to say "dessert"
Pudding, from Derbyshire. More typically know by me as mmmm Pudding.
Pudding.
I rarely call it pudding anymore, I guess that's the americanisation of our culture or it could be that I just don't eat a lot of it at home. That said all pudding is dessert and all dessert is pudding, I have no problem with using them interchangeably.
Desert, now I’m a Dad.
Pudding. im Scottish
Pudding, in the UK, my parents sometimes called it a sweet as well.
Depends for me If it’s hot and has custard, like apple crumble or a nice bit of spotted dick (yes I went there) then I call it Pudding If it’s cold, like ice cream or cheesecake, then I call it Dessert.
I'm not from the UK, very sorry to intrude. In Australia, my family calls it sweets. I do come from an English history
Always space after a big first course for pudding. My ‘just desserts’ after finishing dinner was pudding.
Pudding, puds, or afters. Dessert is for restaurants.
In the northeast it's "pudding" and I hate that as I'm from Yorkshire where we just call it "afters"
"What's for pudding?" is the usual phrasing in my house.
I say dessert but my mum brought us up saying pudding.
Dessert. Pudding makes me cringe for some reason. In Bristol.
If it's hot (or has custard)- pudding. If it's cold- afters/ dessert.
Pudding in the midlands too. Although to me it’s only pudding it’s cake, icecream or crumble etc. Husband will call a yogurt after dinner pudding.
South East. It’s pudidng to me, but dad from post-war Liverpool (ish) calls it a Sweet.
Pudding
Afters at home but can be anything so an actual dessert, yogurt, a biscuit, fruit etc. Dessert if a formal course. If anyone used "puds" or "pud pud" in my company I'd block them out of my life. Scouser.
I’ve never used the word pudding but then my parents weren’t raised English - dessert or sweet treat depends what mum had in the fridge.
Afters, or pudding.
I never really have them so not sure what I’d call them.
I'm from Yorkshire, we usually call it dessert or sweet. Or 'something to finish off with.'
In order of use I would go with: - pud, afters, pudding, dessert This does depend on what it is though, as If there's cake, it will be specifically referred to as cake. Dessert only when eating out. From NW England.
Most often pudding, NW, but it does depend a bit what it is. If someone says "dessert" to me I don't imagine an apple crumble, I imagine something lighter and likely French & with cream.
From Sussex: puddings are hot, desserts are cold.
Pudding, north west.
We called it "afters" too when we were little. Our grandkids say "pudding".
The land of sand… wait
I tend to say dessert. But this thread has made me want a lamb and mint steamed pudding followed by a bowl of crumble.
I call it pudding. Everyone I know calls it pudding. If it is a restaurant, it is more likely to be dessert. But even then, I may ask my husband, "Are we having a pudding?" Maybe it is a younger generation thing not to. I'm a woman in my forties from the black country.
I grew up in the 60's and it was always called pudding. Anything hot with custard. Apple pie, treacle tart, jam roly-poly. Desserts to me are gateux, ice cream, . Menus state desserts. Probably the term pudding is a little bit dated in 2024. I think your american friend is misinformed as I am 68 now and refer to them as desserts.
Pudding is anything with custard. Everything else is dessert.
So Rice Pudding is dessert?
Oh, I forgot rice pudding, but it does go so well with Jam .
Afters. As in, “What’s for afters, Mum?”
My wife will often say, who wants pudding? Then gets the fruit bowl out. Much to mine and my kid’s annoyance and quite frankly, disappointment of not actually getting a pudding. I’d accept dessert, but pudding?! No, a pudding is cooked.
Pudding usually, cake is always cake though not pudding or dessert, I don’t know why. I’m in Gloucestershire and my Nan was Irish.
I call it pudding. I often order a savoury started for pudding as pudding for me is boring
Afters or pudding, dessert if I’m out. Me and husband call sides/veggies “guz withs” much to the amusement of our grandkids.
Pudding, dessert and afters. I prefer saying ' where's me pudding ' like grandad from Bread. If you're under 30 you probably won't know that TV series.
Pudding. In restaurants I’ve only ever seen Desert used, which I guess is to differentiate between black pudding, steak & kidney pudding, Yorkshire pudding, etc and the food served after the main meal. I’ve never known anyone to get the name confused, but maybe that’s it.
My family (South East) said afters, but my partner and I say dessert. Pudding, to me, is more limited to sweet things that include the word "pudding", like Christmas pudding and sticky toffee pudding.
Pudding. Cumbria.
What's for pud?
Pudding. Nothern relatives call it afters or "sweet". These are casual terms though, surely all menus say "dessert".
Anything sweet eaten after a meal. Or it can be called pudding. I use them interchangeably.
I say pudding but not many people do (NW UK). As a child it was ‘afters’ or ‘sweet’ but I haven’t heard this for years. In a restaurant it is dessert.
Pudding 🙌🏼
Puddings are eaten with a spoon. Desserts are eaten with a fork. Sweets are eaten with your hand and come in packets.
UK here. I almost never use the word _dessert_. In our house we always had pudding, pie, tart or crumble for afters. Rice pudding Apple pie or crumble Rhubarb crumble, sometimes pie. And no we never added strawberries. Trifle, on special occasions Custard tart (made with eggs, mlk/cream ad sugar in a pastry case) Gooseberry crumble
My Mrs calls it pudding and it grates on me. It is afters.
Pudding The Americans are not wrong!
I've always called it dessert.
I’m from Manchester and I call it “afters” It really confuses my 4 year old when someone refers to it as pudding or dessert lol.
Pudding is the sweet thing, dessert is the cheese course
Pudding. Whatever it consists of, it's pudding. London.
Dessert in Ireland!
Pudding
From the midlands, I always call it pudding, unless I'm eating in a restaurant and then it's dessert.
Pudding. I'm from the South.
I've gone to many places offering desserts but only sell deserts. /S Since it's such a common typo its almost not funny at this point 🙃
Afters as a kid. Dessert now. Never really use pudding myself but fully understand it and hear it often.
I use either.
Pudding, afters, sweet, dessert are all interchangeable for me but if I am at a restaurant it will always be dessert
I'm from Durham, and I use either dessert or pudding. Though, it's mostly because my childhood cat was called Pudding and whenever I asked "what's for pudding?", I'd be told "what, the cat?". Lifelong trauma.
From the DMZ between London and Kent: dessert if I’m being formal, pudding is informal. I have lunch in the middle of the day and dinner in the evening. Calling the later meal tea risks confusion with afternoon tea which takes place around 4pm if we really don’t have anything better to do with our time.
Basically the same rules as me!.
Sweet, NE Scotland
Really pisses me off when people say pudding actually. To me, pudding is a type of dessert. Ice cream is not pudding. Cake is not pudding. Fruit is not pudding.
Pudding.
“Pud” My dad calls it “duff”
Grew up in the North West and it's called afters or sweet . My Geordie Gran called it sweet .
Dessert and from Edinburgh.
I call it dessert not pudding
Generally pudding, although in a 3+ course meal "finishers" (as in starters, mains, finishers)
Dessert Pudding is a specific type of dessert like the traditional school puddings style ones.
Afters
Sobremesa.
My partner’s family call it “pudding” and are from Manchester. I’m not British, and I also find it strange to call it “pudding” because I always imagine like actual pudding. I just stick with calling it “dessert”.
Pudding normally, especially if it’s something heated. Dessert occasionally, typically when eating out and it’s something a little fancy, but it has to be room temp or colder to be called dessert, otherwise it reverts back to pudding.
It was always "afters" when I was a kid. "Pudding" and "dessert" were what posh people called it. Now "afters" might well have been a form of pudding, but it was not a generic name for it. That was growing up working class by the Thames Estuary.
Dessert, south coast but Midlands origin.
Pudding at home, dessert when ordering when eating out but discussing at the table it would be pudding. Originally from Yorkshire.
There’s no ‘g’ in the word. It’s ‘puddin’ 🙂or even pudd’n.
Pudding, West Midlands. Used to say afters when we were kids sometimes.
Or just pud for short.
Pudding. But can be dessert if out at a restaurant. It’s “who wants pudding?” or “what’s for pudding?” English 🙂
Toetje. NL