 This is absolutely my experience as well, I reverted to Islam alhamdulillah last year so this is my second Ramadan, however growing up as a non-Muslim, seeing Muslims and how they would break their fast, it was absolutely disgusting. This had nothing to do with fasting whatsoever. When you're fasting, you're abstaining from food and if you're fasting during the day, why would you then become a glutton at night and stuff your face with all kinds of junk food? It just never made sense to me and looking at it now from a Muslim perspective, I can say this is clearly tradition, this is clearly culture and it cannot be religion because it goes against abstaining, it goes against the purpose of fasting in the first place.