Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
sticky foods
English answer:
sugary foods which stick to your fingers or to the plate
English term
Russian Federation
Professional interpreting/translation
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, Ukrainian to English, and 1 more.
sticky
| 4 +1 | (here) sugary foods which stick to your fingers or to the plate |
British Diana
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| 5 +2 | gummy, adhesive |
Suzan Hamer
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| 5 +1 | viscous |
silifke63 (X)
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| 3 -1 | tacky |
Rolf Keiser
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Aug 11, 2010 12:11: British Diana Created KOG entry
Non-PRO (2): Tony M, Ildiko Santana
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Germany
enthusiast
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: German to English, English to German, English, and 1 more.
(here) sugary foods which stick to your fingers or to the plate
I would say that the adjectives in the brackets do not all refer to all the foods mentioned before but only to one - thus sticky is for the sugary, sweet foods, greasy for the foods containing a lot of fats and oils and pasty for the stodgy foods (flour, wheat) consisting of refined flour and other carbohydrates.
Sticky is used frequently to describe foods containing a lot of sugar - stuicky buns have a sugar glaze or coating on then, sweets have a lot of glucose etc.
Netherlands
Fussy editing for fussy people.
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: English, Dutch to English
gummy, adhesive
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Note added at 23 mins (2010-08-07 12:10:00 GMT)
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Of course that should be "sweet, greasy foods are usually sticky too." Like glue. Perhaps that would be the best definition: like glue.
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Jenni Lukac (X)
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Thank you, Jenny.
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MPGS
: :)
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Thank you, MPGS.
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viscous
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MPGS
: :)
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thnx
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British Diana
: Would you really use this in a food context? Well, for me viscous is a scientific word not usually used for food or by non-experts.
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why not??
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Switzerland
Translate complexity through simplicity
Native in: English (Variants: US, British) , German (Variants: Germany, Swiss)
Works in: German to English, English to German, English, and 1 more.
tacky
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British Diana
: Have you ever met this in a food context? (another reason against this word is that it has at least two more common meanings -cheap, gauche)
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"fast food" isn't neccessarily gourmet fare!
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Kim Metzger
: Wrong word. Adhesives are tacky. Kitsch is tacky.
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