The culture around sweets in India is different than from the West. You're supposed to eat one little square piece of a sweet or a couple of gulab jamun balls a

The culture around sweets in India is different than from the West. You're supposed to eat one little square piece of a sweet or a couple of gulab jamun balls and that's it. Indians don't sit with a big plate of Indian sweets like it's the "dessert" course of their meal. That's why Western sweets are less sweet. You don't just eat a single one-inch cube of cheesecake, you eat a whole plate-sized portion of it which is like ten such cubes. Naturally it can't be as sweet as an Indian sweet. Even growing up my parents said you're supposed to eat 1 Skittle and put the packet away (no joke). The fact that people in the West snack on a whole packet of Skittles was a culture shock.