Is cheesecake a pudding?

Or apple pie? They seem more like desserts, not like a fool or trifle.

Well, I use the words pudding and dessert interchangeably to mean 'the sweet course eaten after the main course'... So, for me, cheesecake and apple pie are both puddings...and they are also both desserts .

So pudding covers it all then. When I asked my neighbour, he said "afters".

Yep, pudding, dessert, sweet and afters can all cover the same thing... The sweet course at the end of a meal. It usually depends where you're from and where you're eating (i.e. at home or eating out) as to which one you use. I think 'afters' is more commonly used in the north, while 'sweet' is more midlands/north, and 'dessert' or 'pudding' may be used more in the south.

For real, SoS?!
Haven't you been here for like, years and years... and didn't know this?  

(maybe I just think about food wayyyy too much!)

Alb, a while, but heck I just found out that England won the World Cup in 1966, and discovered Test Card F recently.

I was reading up on it, and it seems to me that dessert is called pudding because historically most British desserts were puddings. So I figured that something like cheesecake might be so completely different that it would not fit the category.

Slow news day.

I'm the type that would also eat either for Breakfast!! 

Alb, a while, but heck I just found out that England won the World Cup in 1966, and discovered Test Card F recently.

Surely it was mentioned once or twice?  That seems to be hubby's fave subject.  Maybe because he is a football nut.

He's from the north, and calls it pudding or afters.

Surely it was mentioned once or twice?  

You know I am a secret celebrity gossip junkie, so I am much more likely at any given moment to know what Coleen Rooney wore on holiday over how many goals Wayne scored last week.

My football knowledge:

Wayne Rooney seems to always let people down.
John Terry seems to be a bit of an a-hole.
Christiano Ronaldo's girlfriend seems too young for him - like in a Leo DiCaprio sort of way.* 
Italians, Spanish, Portuguese - you know, emotional Latin types -  seem to pass the ball around more.
Germans crush the opponent with efficient attacks.

*not quite Cloonied, though...

Wayne doesn't always let people down. Sometimes we are right proud of the guy.
Terry is more than a bit of an a-hole.

Think you are right on the rest of them. 

Italians, Spanish, Portuguese - you know, emotional Latin types -  seem to pass the ball around more.
Germans crush the opponent with efficient attacks.

This was my logic in filling out a world cup bracket at work this week...
Combined with "Yeah, <enter country> has similar climate to Brazil; they'll do alright", I think I've got chances of winning!

Cheesecake is undoubtedly foreign so doesn't qualify as 'afters' or 'pudding'.

Cheesecake is undoubtedly foreign so doesn't qualify as 'afters' or 'pudding'.

This is sort of what I am thinking.

Cheesecake? Cheese and cake? Cheese in a cake? 

Cheesecake? Cheese and cake? Cheese in a cake? 

Garlic...bread??