Pudding, dessert, sweet, afters.

I love that everyone on this thread is calling a pudding a pudding! I've noticed people seem mostly to refer to 'dessert' these days, which I find pretentious and ridiculous. Or sometimes they call pudding 'a sweet' which might even be worse to my ears.

whitewave I have never made one in my life!

Mind you if there is one thing we British are good at it is a pudding, it would be a shame to lose them.

Thankfully I do not like any puddings, especially rice or custard. I am not a fan of pastry either so I never have anything. If I have fruit it is usually during the day, not as part of my evening meal.

PoshGran - my own Gran used to say "wait and see" if you asked her what's for pudding? The favourite was Yorkshire puddings with golden syrup.
We usually just have fresh fruit, though I make icecream and we often have that with fruit compote.
In winter I make a stodgier pudding with real custard.

We don't have puddings on weekdays. I make puddings on Sundays which has become a family tradition. Yesterday I made a raspberry cream flan, as I had my SiL and his Dad here for lunch.

Mum always made a rice or macaroni pud on Sundays. She also made superb steamed puds. I love puds as long as they don't contain chocolate.
I usually have yoghurt or fresh fruit these days and H will have a small portion of icecream with fruit as he dosen't like yoghurt. He's none to keen on pastry either so I'm not tempted to make pies or crumbles which is good

Mums 99th at the weekend so am doing amongst other things a trifle with raspberries and strawberries. Vanilla mascarpone will replace the traditional custard and I can't remember what the booze is - it's a Nigel Slater recipe. I also have to cater for diary free so will do a compote of some sort with diary free ice cream.

Usually no, but I do love puddings of all sorts. When the grandchildren were younger we always had a sponge pudding of all sorts with thick custard. They loved it. One of their favourites was an apple sponge custard with mincemeat at the bottom - divine!!

Only yoghurt most days, or strawberries, a peach etc. But on Sundays we allow ourselves a pud, or when we have visitors.Yesterday we had golden syrup sponge with creamy custard travelsafar your fave!
My fave pud is my own apple crumble, made with Bramleys.

We never normally have puddings, though we quite often finish a meal with a lump of blue cheese.
For birthdays and anniversaries I make a chocolate mousse of very dark chocolate, egg and cream and at Christmas we have something exquisite in chocolate from the patisserie. The family are coming next week so I shall buy a fraisier for the day they arrive.
Today we are having some French friends for lunch so I have made a limoncello and raspberry semi-freddo.

Most often nowadays we have fresh fruit. High days & holidays might find frozen fruit fool with home-made almond shortbread or mincemeat streusal on the menu. Party time might just involve a huge fruit salad or Tipsy Ginger Cake (ginger snap anyone?)

Standard fare with DC was/is "Wait & See" pudding.
My favourite childhood pudding was chocolate Instant Whip with chocolate vermicelli strands on top!

I have puddings most days, but its mostly berries or other fruit and Greek yogurt.

Yes I remember my grandma's old fashioned steamed puddings I have lots of lovely memories of my mother making them too, although they tended to be occasional, which made them more of a treat. We did have rice pudding fairly frequently, I remember the lovely nutmeg sprinkled on the top, I did it for my own children when they were young, delicious, unlike the vile stuff the school forced down our necks I do a proper pudding if we have guests. Things such as Pavlova, Lemon Meringue Pie, Banoffee Pie, Summer Pudding, Crumble. Other than that we don't have a pudding, aside from a few strawberries or a nectarine (my favourite fruit) I do love puddings though but unfortunately they tend to be calorific

We just have fresh fruit with a plain yogurt topping on a few occasions a month we might share a small bowl of ice cream.

I love puddings but am wracked with guilt if I eat one except a Xmas or birthday.

Yes we always had puddings too, loved steamed apple pudding with lots of custard like travelsafar
Also crumbles, rice pudding made with evaporated milk, baked egg custard. Nothing very healthy there but hey ho they were yummy

We always had puddings as a child but now we rarely do as so aware of weight gain.

Love apple pie or crumble, and my all time favourite has got to be golden syrup sponge with creamy custard!!!