A question on "mummy candy" of Guanajuato, Mexico

[en0ck]

While reading about travel in Mexico, I am across something called
"mummy candy" that's produced and eaten by denizens of Guanajuato.
What is "mummy candy" exactly, why is it eaten and where did it get
such a peculiar name?

[Richard Ferguson]

The mummys of Guanajuato are a tourist attraction, and have their own
museum. For day of the dead, skeleton candies are common in many places
in Mexico.

The mummy candy is probably a slight variation on the popular skeleton
candies. If you read up on day of the Dead, you will learn more about
this custom.

Richard

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[Bob F.]

When you visit the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato you'll be attacked by people
trying to sell you candy that looks like dried up corpses. Its some sort of
sugar sheet candy that's formed to look like a corpse. They usually have
different sizes and you can either eat them or preserve them in your
refrigerator, although after a few months in the fridge they start to look
worse than a dried corpse, if that's possible.

The mummy candy is sold all year long and it has a much different appearance
than the candy skulls that are sold for Dia de los Muertos. The only worse
looking thing is the mummies in the mummy museum. At least they now have
clothes on. My Spanish teacher (from Mexico City) told me that 15 years ago
(or so) the mummies were displayed in all of their mummy nakedness and that
was even nastier to look at. I guess the anti-aging cream wears off after
300 years or so. I don't think that the mummies are doing too well because
I caught a definite whiff of decay when I last visited the museum, a couple
of years ago.

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