Afraid I'm in the same boat as Sue943 LOL!

Semolina can be ok if you mask it with jam/syrup/honey . Honestly.
I used to give it to my children. I well remember serving up a plateful with a blob of jam on to my daughter in her highchair. I turned my back and there it was , upside down on her head with the jam still in the middle. It took quite a while to remove from her ears, hair etc. Wish I had had the camera.

You obviously didn't have school dinners in the 50's, with a blob of jam in the middle. I loathed the stuff and refused to eat it, they used to make me sit there until I had eaten it but used to have to let me leave when it was time for classes to start again.

I'm with you sue943 - our school desserts were often tapioca, semolina, sago or rice pudding. All basically the same sort of white gloop, but only rice pudding was anywhere near palatable.

Another pudding was a sort of pink blancmange/gunge. That was even worse.

But the worst was the sponge with jam and desiccated coconut on it. Oh dear. Desiccated coconut is the stuff of nightmares.

Ooer, I love dessicated coconut and a special treat as a child was to have some on a saucer with some sugar.

Too much like toenail clippings for me.

Once upon a time I went to see my mother who asked if I'd like a cup of coffee... and how many sugars? It had been a long drive in miserable weather so I said "two please" to cheer myself up with an extra sugar rush. She spooned, she stirred, she handed over the coffee and without looking I took a quick slurp. Have you any idea how far I can spit coffee made with two heaped spoonfuls of dessicated coconut which is no longer dessicated because it has been spooned into hot water? A looooooong way.

I've never had it with jam. That sounds positively horrid! I guess my sister and I are the strange ones, lol, even my mom doesn't care for it that much. When we were kids and mom would make the tapioca pudding, she was surprised at how much we liked it.

The jam was the only palatable bit!

I had my suspicions that the brown things in the raspberry jam weren't pips, but were pieces of wood.

TMI Flopsy ROFL

Ooops , sounds a lot like Lamingtons!

Ooh - they don't sound like my cup of tea. Shudder.

You are correct, I remembered that one when I was hanging out the washing yesterday - I just forgot to come in here and add it to my post!

So I shouldn't bring the lamingtons with me then?

I'm in the same boat as Sue - diabetic. I don't eat dessert most days but when I do, it's usually a fruit- and yoghurt-based "icecream" that I make myself in my Thermomix. It's low in fat and sugar and the only ingredients are fruit (whatever fruit you feel like using), an egg white, a very small amount of sugar and frozen yoghurt. It suits my family because in addition to my diabetes, my daughter is mildly lactose-intolerant (but she can tolerate certain types of yoghurt, and my husband has cholesterol issues. They both prefer my "icecream" to regular icecream and it's much healthier. In fact, I recently had "real" icecream for the first time in months and it just tasted "greasy".

I do have a sweet tooth so in the days when I did eat dessert, I would eat most of them but wasn't overly keen on anything that relied on oodles of whipped cream. Whipped cream in small doses only, please.

As for sago and tapioca, I like them and my family is always asking me to make them.

Anything chocolate is good!

A kind thought , but no, thanks so much.

Boysenberry cobbler.

I have about 1/2 acre of them trailing from my back yard line to the bayou. In season right now, I want to take off work (which I would, but I'm a teacher), and just pick the entire lot. I took mother for a walk (don't ask, well, go ahead, ask, but I'll not answer), and we discovered the floor of the forest buried in berries. And don't I just happen to be the best crust maker in southeast Arkansas?

One of my best buds is the reigning queen of cookies. I feel a fund raisers coming on.....

Can I contribute to that fund raiser with my raspberries Bittleryold? Got millions of them

I'm not an expert in the various blackberry-raspberry crosses. What are boysenberries like?

I'd love it!

I plan to plant several types of raspberries this year. I'm particularly interested in a golden strand I found in my Burgess catalog.

I love raspberries.

boysenberries are a large, sweet strain of blackberries. Native blackberries (here, anyway) are really rather small and bitter.

I used to love our school dinners - the bright green or pink semolina was my favourite. I used to fight my best friend over who would get the skin. I suppose I should have realised then that something wasn't right - should puddings have skin?

I'm about to part company with me breakfast Chavs ...

The skin's the best bit!