Day of the Dead: I got the chucks and ate my little Willy’s sugar skull. – Naked Lunch, p 18
And now, from the wonders of the internet, How to make sugar skulls for Dia de Los Muertos, or really any other occasion, which I recommend as well.
Over the years of trying out junk foods, I have returned to a concept of reality that slides below all the marketing as the most basic abstraction possible: candy is congealed sugar, and soft drinks are sugar water. After that revelation, I found it hard to spend $2 for $0.20 of sugar pressed into shapes, to which potentially harmful weird chemicals are added. (There might be a singular exception if what is added is limited to peppermint oil, as in Wrigley Lifesavers Pep-O-Mint, the only commmercially available candy with four ingredients.)
