Desert, Pudding, Sweet or Afters?

[smudge]

Following on form the Dinner/Tea question, what do you call the yummy tasty treats after dinner?

Desert, Pudding, Sweet, or just plain Afters?

[Lillabet]

I've always called it pudding.

[smudge]

Before you say it - I meant Dessert - not the sandy kind of desert!

[acw]

Pudding if it's something nice and heavy - like a yummy crumble.

 

Desert if I'm eating out.

 

Rarely use the other two words in this context! Gawd I could murder a rhubarb crumble and custard now! :-)

[kaktus]

Dessert - Don't know if my answer counts though :0)

[funkychicken]

pudding

[IndieSinger]

Pudding.

[spudqueen]

Pudding at home, dessert or sweet when dining out.

[tetherend]

Pudding or afters.

[smudge]

kaktus - of course your answer counts! :o)

When I was little, it used to be 'afters', but now I'm all grown up with a family of my own, we call it: Dessert!

[kaktus]

Thanks Smudge :0)

[Gef]

Cheese and biscuits!

[netibiza]

Dessert - or to actually name it ie Strawberries etcv.

[thikasabrik]

I call it pudding, but  my daughter calls it afters and my son calls it seconds (as in 2nd course of school dinners.)

I always assumed that dessert was something eaten down south (a regional thing again) but I recently read in a book called 'Class' by Jilly Cooper that the upper classes call it pudding. I'm not that common after all it seems!

[Sammy Snake]

Afters!

[normyc]

pudding or afters

[Robinia]

To quote grandad from Bread (remember?) ...

"I have two puddings"  :-)

[smudge]

You're back Robinia!

I placed a question on P&P asking if you were ok - glad to see you are.

Thanks again folks.

[flaming]

I think it is a class thing.  Over the years one calls it the other word to seem posh.  But that might not apply in some regions, where everyone uses the same word.  At home when I was small we said 'afters'.  When I was a young adult and we all wanted to not seem common our lot said 'sweet' but I later discovered that saying sweet was a bit naff and  better people called it 'pudding'.  What rot it all is really.  I rarely have any, whatever it is called - unless there is a hot sweet something & custard on offer (and I mean the 'pretend' custard made with Bird's custard powder - wonder what it is like with soya milk?)

[smudge]

flaming -  We always called it 'afters' at home too, but when I married with children of my own it became dessert.

I always associate 'pudding' or 'sweet' with spotted dick & custard type things too! After all cheese & biscuits aren't sweet & don't resemble a 'pudding'!

But there you go - everyone to their owm.

[kaktus]

Smudge - that is almost exactly how I think of it. In Danish we only use dessert or the equivalent of afters (very rare). So if my only contact with English would have been what I learned at school, and I was offered pudding, I would have thought it was 'real' pudding :0)

I like these 'what do you call it' questions, because even though I read lots of English/American litterature and regularly speak with British people, I sure do learn something from these kind of questions :0)