Cream, icecream, or custard?

I prefer puddings without any ... ah ... lubricant at all, but if I was pushed I'd pick 'cream'. Ice cream is only good when on its own, and then only when the weather is hot. However, Pizza Express now has what I consider the most ambrosial pudding I've ever tasted: baby figs in a wine sauce poured over mascarpone. Oh. My. God. Heaven in a dish.

A puddings' lubricant will depend on the density and destination of the pudding.

Custard if it's a jam roly poly, cream if it's a chocolate fudge cake. Don't really have ice cream unless it's served on its own and it's got to be Movenpick, otherwise I find ice cream boring. There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed - Dennett

Custard every time. With or without pudding. I especially like the skin when it starts to cool. I'm getting peckish now!

Ice cream, without question! Please don't talk of custard skin or I will be sick on my keyboard. "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." Oscar Wilde

I'm on the fence on this one! (surprising, I know) I do like a bit of hot apple pie with thick creamy cream, but when it comes to treacle sponge pudding or jam roly poly or any of those other thick stodgy English puds, I can swing either way... cream or custard, depending on the mood, depending on the weather, depending on whether it's Birds custard-out-of-a-tin or Marks & Spencers Extra Thick Single Cream or whatever. Agreed, though, re ice cream... generally not a goer... it should be eaten on its own, especially if its Carte D'Or... erm... well anything by Carte D'Or... and I'm not a cheap ice cream eater, anyway... I love those new Iceland chocolate orange Magnum-type things! ~PEPS~ Latest on The Art of Tea ( http://pepsoid.wordpress.com/ )... "In Defence of txtspeak"

Ok, I admit - I would not trust a dessert that needed a lubricant. I like ice-cream on its own too. "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." Oscar Wilde

It occurs to me that lubricants of most kinds are very depressing. "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." Oscar Wilde

And what is the basis of your remark, galfreda? I would be thankful if you could present empirical evidence to back up your assertion... ~PEPS~ Latest on The Art of Tea ( http://pepsoid.wordpress.com/ )... "In Defence of txtspeak"