How often do you usually have dessert?

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1. Friday is the official “candy day” in Denmark where candy is allowed in many families with children. In other Nordic countries it’s usually Saturday. It was something I used to think all countries had.

   Both candy, pastries and other desserts are a huge part of our culture and cuisine. We are the largest consumers of candy in the entire world.

   My family never had it as an official rule but even as an adult it still feels… weird to buy candy on other days. Like taking a walk with a martini glass filled with water. Just wtf, out of place. Still do it though because yolo

2. Personally I very rarely eat dessert, but growing up we had cake almost every day. My mum would bake one every Sunday and then we’d eat it the rest of the week until it was gone.

3. In my family, we would have “proper” dessert, like a cake, tart or trifle every Sunday, as well as on birthdays, Christmas, Easter etc, but on other days we’d often eat fruit or yogurt, or occasionally a scoop of ice cream, after our meal.

   Smaller things like chocolate, sweets or biscuits would not be dessert for after a meal, they would go with a cup of tea at other times. Not every day, but not only on special occasions, just.. whenever we had them in the house.

4. When I was a kid we used to have some sort of cake/tart and a piece of chocolate every Sunday morning when my parents drank a cup of coffee (and cake again in the evening) and ice cream after dinner. On other days a piece of candy every day when we came home from school and a dessert (yoghurt/”vla” which is a type of thin and often flavoured custard) every day after dinner.

   I wouldn’t call sweets/candy desserts though. And in my experience cake is not generally eaten as a dessert but as a snack. If you say dessert people will probably assume you mean some kind of dairy product. Yoghurt, vla, ice cream, pudding, etc.

   I still do the cake and the ice cream on Sunday though not as consistently as we used to. Dessert after dinner only if I feel like it which isn’t very often. And I rarely eat sweets or chocolate these days.

5. Same as you, on special occasions. But then again if I have lunch in the work cafeteria there is always dessert. And If I work from home and I have Ice cream in the fridge there is always dessert. So, it depends.

6. I’m a major sweet tooth and I love to bake, so we have dessert whenever I’m in the mood for it! I save the more elaborate and time-consuming desserts for special occasions.

7. In Spain we usually finish a meal with a piece of fruit, I can have something sweet like a yoghurt once or twice a week instead of fruit and I save some treats for the afternoon snack (merienda) on the weekend such as chocolate cookies or a muffin.

8. Everyday. A piece of fruit or a yogurt on most days, a pastry or a cake on Sundays.

9. Almost never, might have some chocolate or ice cream after dinner sometimes, but it’s very rarely a whole course in itself

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11. I stopped having dessert after I was (I think) 14. I’m a skinny person, and if I’m full after dinner, I don’t want to eat anything else soon after.

    On birthdays or special occations tho, I’ll definitely eat at east a bit of dessert

12. nearly every day, desserts are one of my top reasons to live.

13. Never really. We don’t even offer it to dinner guests. I don’t know anyone who eats dessert at home. Maybe at dinner out but usually not.

14. ‘Dessert’ in the sense of something sweet after lunch or dinner…maximum once or twice a week (usually Sunday after lunch,or else on a special occasion as you mentioned above).

    Rarely at a restaurant after a meal.

    As a snack..ice cream in summer is fairly common.And instead of that during the winter we often eat a piece of chocolate…usually a couple of squares a day,not a whole bar each!

    A sweet breakfast is pretty common in Italy (cake,biscuits etc),but personally I don’t eat it often..I usually have oatmeal or museli,or else yogurt and fruit.

15. Very rarely. I just forget most of the time. Example: I bought some Ben & Jerry’s recently and ate it once. I keep forgetting I have it.

16. Culturally, it’s part of every meal. For me personally, this depends on what other things I eat on this day because I keep my weight. 😃

17. 3/4 times a day. Sometimes I have dessert with my dessert

18. Growing up we definitely had more (homemade) dessert on holidays and special occasions, mainly because it was very holiday-specific and also took time and effort to make. Back then, confectionery-bought cakes had a reputation of being not very fresh, or made with dodgy ingredients (my mom still thinks that only lazy people buy *cozonac* instead of making it at home lol).

    Outside of that, my mom would sometimes make a tray of brownies, sponge cake or some crepes, nothing too complicated. During summer, ice cream and watermelon are a classic dessert after lunch. We also had chocolate, biscuits, candy etc at home but they were more like a sweet snack, not an actual dessert after a meal.

    Now as an adult I still have similar habits even though I have the power to buy myself an entire cake whenever I want (the consequences for my belly fat are definitely holding me back).

19. Well i rarely eat anything as a dessert but i do eat everything you listed.

20. Dessert being part of the classical meal, i would say twice a day. But desserts include fruits and yoghurts in our definition

21. Deserts as something you eat after dinner at the table: very rare. Essentially only birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and Easter

    But if you count [fika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_culture#Sweden) as a stand-alone desert… then it’s basically every day at around 14–15 (2–3pm). In Swedish *break-rooms* are colloquially known as *fikarum* [fika room]

    Then we also have *Lördagsgodis* [Saturday candy] which is, according to many parents, the only day children are allowed to eat candy.

    But in my family we often had [pick ‘n’ mix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_confectionery) or a chocolate bar (to share) in front of the TV every Friday and Saturday

22. way too often, I got a huge sweet tooth, especially for ice cream

23. >but apparently some people have them daily in small doses.

    I am one of these people for better or for worse!

24. We usually have some dairy-based dessert (yoghurt, vla, quark, pudding) every day.

25. People in Greece only eat chocolate on special occasions?

26. Yeah, desserts are usually for special occasions, but sometimes we have them after lunch or dinner.