Candy Skulls

Pan de Muerto

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October 24th 2006
Got to the "Gigante" supermarket on foot to find everything one could need. Just a block from "Pitico", also a biggish store. Even there they have a display of sugar, amerinth, and chocolate skulls. Brightly colored sugar coffins that a skeleton sits up in when you pull a string. There was a large display of pan de muerto (bread of the dead) a sweet, orange flavored treat with a little head sticki ... read more

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more