From Mysore Pak to ‘Mysore Shree’: As some Jaipur confectioneries change names of famous sweets, culinary experts explain what ‘Pak’ actually means
Jaipur, May 26, 2025.In the wake of the recent India-Pakistan tensions, it has been reported that some sweetmeat shops in Rajasthan have renamed sweets like Mysore Pak, Gond Pak, and Moti Pak as Mysore Shree, Gond Shree, and Moti Shree, respectively. According to PTI, the name change is complete in at least three famous confectioneries in Jaipur, which have dropped ‘Pak’ from the entire range of their traditional sweets and replaced it with ‘Shree’.But what does the word ‘pak’ mean in the names of sweets?Home chef Aishwarya Damodaran told us that pak denotes the consistency of sugar syrup, or means simply a sweet syrup. “It’s from a Sanskrit word. But in Tamil, we also colloquially say paagu for the string consistency that defines whether the sweet is cooked or not,” ...
