Do you have pudding / desert every night after dinner!?

Van Hellseek said:
I mean calling the evening meal 'tea' would still be wrong, as even if dinner is at lunchtime, the evening meal would be 'supper', and not 'tea'.
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Tea is still valid as an evening meal as is supper. Depending on where you are in the country. A lot of them are interchangeable. Supper/tea are or at least used to be lighter meals in the evening. When you had your main meal (dinner) at midday.

But these days fashion has changed and main meal is usually in the evening. If you go back further in time, dinner was breakfast as that was the main meal.
 
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It's a crazy world.

Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal occurring about noon, which broke the night's fast in the new day. The word is from the Old French (ca 1300) disner, meaning "breakfast", from the stem of Gallo-Romance desjunare ("to break one's fast"), from Latin dis- ("undo") + Late Latin ieiunare ("to fast"), from Latin ieiunus ("fasting, hungry").[2][3] Eventually, the term shifted to referring to the heavy main meal of the day, even if it had been preceded by a breakfast meal. The (lighter) meal following dinner has traditionally been referred to as supper or tea.
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I always have pudding after dinner, although it's usually fruit/yoghurt. Sometimes a cake from the bakery when I'm feeling daring :p Strawberries tonight though for pudding, delish :)
 
When I was growing up anyone who said they had "supper" used to mean a small meal (usually cheese and biscuits, a bowl of cereal or a slice of toast) not long before bed after tea *shudder*. Dinner to me is just a miscellaneous large meal, usually with guests *shrugs* not that it matters.

Anyway the dessert thing. I have something sweet after both lunch and tea - not something I would have ever thought to have done back when I lived with the olds or back when I was in uni. Now I just don;t feel right with out it. These days it tends to be something small though not an actual "pudding" or what I would call dessert.


ETA: Strawberries and Nuttella - awsome pud!
 
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If you get a relatively low calorie one I find there's no issue, and you actually enjoy eating it more. The chocolate sprinkled orange muller lights are a new fave of mine. I love them :o
 
I tend to, yes. I have seriously low blood sugar so unless I either eat lots of regular meals (often inconvienient), I have to have a fairly high intake of "sweet" foods.
 
Usually a joghurt or bits of fruit in natural yogurt. I always hanker after something sweet after dinner.
 
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