I used to be before I was diabetic. I was brought up on suet puddings, apple pies and crumbles, tinned fruit and cream, rice pudding, figgy pudding - every day there was a pudding after dinner (at lunch time) and home caked after tea.
I developed a love of sticky toffee puddings, cheesecake, roulades but can't remember the last time I ate any pudding.
I'm not bothered about puddings, but to Mr. J2 they are an integral part of a meal. Sometimes, if we go out, I'll have a pudding to keep him company and I enjoy it. Different tastes, that's all.
I can't always eat a 'sweet', but sometimes if I still feel a little hungry my favourite is a passion fruit and mango sundae at my favourite eating place, they are SO delicious ...
// nice savoury meal, there is a tradition to squeeze//
oh read a book on food history and you will understand
Pepys mentions mixing and matching sweet and savoury ( mince pies being er mince)
Parson Woodruffe listed everything he ate for forty years
( a LOT of meat) 1758 - 1800
Escoffier cooked for George IV and this is minutely described
and today - dinner ladies serve lunch to kids and not dinner
Sometimes! Sometimes we will not bother with dessert; sometimes it will be nothing and sometimes it might be cheese and biscuits later. And sometimes I knock up something like a lemon-meringue roulade and we indulge for a few days.
// And sometimes I knock up something //
you can knock me up anytime Barmaid hur hur hur
alphabet soup served with a legal ladle
statutory suet with cootar - hard bits difficult to digest
I prefer to be left with a savoury taste in my mouth. Not keen on desserts. If still hungry, then yogurt and fruit is ok. Years ago cheese and biscuits was always available in restaurants, which I loved. I haven't got sweet tooth, but do like sweet and sour dishes.