A small plastic container containing several ounces of vanilla, chocolate, or tapioca pudding. Parents often send their children to elementary school with one of these and a plastic spoon in their lunch box. They make an excellent quick dessert treat, and are very satisfying. However, when you consider their price relative to that of buying real pudding and several reuseable plastic containers, pudding cups tend to be expensive. For some time, Bill Cosby has done American commercials advertising Jell-O pudding products, even though Jell-O built their reputation making various gelatin products.

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