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Originally Posted by Mikala43
Yes. I find our desserts sweeter than most other cultures, EU, Asian, etc.
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REALLY? You have clearly never experienced an Indian dessert.
I swear Indians have the biggest sweet teeth in the entire world. That I know of. They would put sugar on sugar. Much like my dad, bless his heart, who would go through 2 of those restaurant style sugar-shakers just putting sugar in his coffee per day. When I was a kid this is how I made his coffee, from a percolator, so strong it could climb out of the pot by itself -
Take the coffee cup.
Fill 1/3rd with sugar.
Add another 1/3rd coffee
Now fill it up with cream.
His favorite pie was pecan, which is basically a layer of pecans on top of a couple of inches of sugar. He would put ice cream on that.
Indians are just like that. His sweet tooth is typical of every single Indian I have ever known, and I have known a lot of them over the years given my ex was from Vijayawada, LOL!
I have never known any Americans other than my dad who slugged down the sweets and sugar the way my dad did. Did I mention he kept a bowl of chocolate candy next to him at all times? He could go through 5 pounds of candy a week! And no, he was not diabetic nor was he fat.
Anyway. Indian desserts.
Jalebi. Basically sugar syrup soaked fried things.
Gulab Jamun. Kind of like a syrup soaked donut hole.
Ras Gullah. Imagine a soft, fresh cheese. Now imagine that soft, fresh cheese - SOAKED IN SYRUP.
I actually love Ras Gullah. It at least has a nice bite to it to counteract all that sugar.
Mysore Pak. There are two kinds. There is the fudgie kind, and the crunchy kind. Both are basically butter, flour and sugar, only one is cooked to the candy stage until it foams up and makes a frothy foamy mass that then cools to crunchy goodness. WAY sweeter than a doughnut in either form.
Kheer. Rice cooked in sugar and milk until the milk thickens to the consistency of cream.
Mango pulp. This comes out of the can already loaded down with sugar. I love mango, but mango pulp is already so sweet it makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it.
A donut by itself is generally not all that sweet. Sprinkles - not sweet. They taste chalky to me, I don't know why anyone likes them. Icing, sure that's sweet. But I don't think a donut with icing and sprinkles is anywhere NEAR the top, let alone over it.
In the USA, our problem is not so much the actual desserts as it is the sugar they put in every goldang thing. It's in canned food, its in bread, it's in EVERYTHING. Plus salt and fat. If you look at any individual item, it doesn't seem like much - but in the aggregate - DEFINITELY over the top. I'll take an overdone Indian dessert in lieu of the cumulative effect of the crap they add to prepared food here any day.