Christmas Pudding versus Panettone?

Panettone makes a great present, and I would have it as part of xmas tea/ boxing day tea yum!

Pudding on Christmas Day, panettone any time of any day here!

And smells divine when toasted

It’s a bread, perfect with coffee for breakfast.

I've never understood panettone is for. Is it cake? Is it bread? What to do with the stuff?

Surely, they are not interchangeable. One is breakfast and one it pud. One can be toasted or made into bread pudding, the other a pudding or fried in butter the next day.

I don’t think you can compare them - it’s like comparing the toast you have for your breakfast with a trifle, as one’s a bread and ones a dessert, so you don’t eat them at the same meal? Of the two I prefer panettone though, I’m not mad about Christmas pudding.

We wouldn't have panettone for Christmas dinner - it's Christmas pudding, trifle or Yule log. Panettone is lovely at other times though, especially for those not keen on Christmas cake or mince pies.

Surely nobody is choosing panettone as a pudding.
It's usually served like a brioche, surely?
Unless it's a filled version which is more like a cake?

Pannetone will presumably outsell Christmas pudding though as you will only buy one pudding I'd think and may buy several of the others - for eating and for gifts?

Pannetone is great. My husband loves it in the run up to Christmas, sliced and buttered. But on Christmas day my homemade Christmas pudding is his choice with large dollops of brandy cream. In the New Year if pannetone is on sale he will buy it to have buttered or made into bread and butter pudding.

We bought two of each! Panettone makes delicious bread and butter pudding! I also like leftover Christmas Puffing fried in butter. The outer layer goes crispy.

No contest! Christmas pud every time

Totally agree Margs. Christmas isn't Christmas without the Christmas pud and lashings of cream.