Despite the competition of international companies to attract the Saudi market, the glow of the old Eid sweets has not disappeared, but the popular sweets still compete with international chocolate shops, and are witnessing a demand from citizens to buy them as a social heritage that has been inherited by generations, while a number of women prefer to make the popular sweets themselves.
The most prominent of these desserts are: luddoo, labneh, mashabk, harissa, and dubyaza. Housewives dedicate long hours to making them inside homes, while shops specialize in selling them to those who want them.
Khaled Al-Saidi refers to his purchase of new chocolate, some of which reach 200 riyals per kilo, but the old sweets are not missing from his house, and he adds: We still adhere to the customs and traditions of our fathers and grandfathers with which the feast was associated with the presence of popular sweets.
And Al-Saidi indicated that the popular sweets were inherited by generations, and they still find a demand to buy them on Eid Al-Fitr, despite the emergence of new varieties of chocolate stuffed with many and tempting qualities, but the presence of lado, labneh and dabiza has become a social habit and a popular heritage to complete the manifestations of the holiday in homes.
Ghazi Halawani pointed out that he bought old sweets such as dubyaza, which is considered the best during the day of Eid. However, lokum, cow and labneh are the oldest and most famous, which compete with French, Belgian and Swiss sweets, which are the most expensive, distinguished and demanded in chocolate.
He said, "We love the popular sweets, which are not absent from our homes, but children and young people search for Belgian and Swiss chocolate on the feast, but we do not forget our beloved milky, al-du and dubyaza."
Ibrahim Al-Alawi (Jeddah) @i_waleeed22