Thursday, November 10, 2016

Death in sugar

After a day in Metepec we headed to Toluca where we could check out the market for decoration for Day of the Dead ofrendas, or altars.



All sorts of things in all sorts of materials were on offer, from paper to chocolate to marzipan to sugar paste to nuts and seeds and plastic. Here's a slice of pictures--I see we focused on the sweet stuff:















There was a little skeleton figure for just about any profession: athletes, surgeons, engineers, obstetricians, pole dancers...









This baker sells the traditional holiday loaf for Day of the Dead:



Butchers--we thought the pig head was a bit of of comedy, but saw plenty of them in butchers' stalls in days to come:



In the zocalo, or town square, lots of people were dressed up in costumes, including a bag lady:





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