Sugar skulls are candy made for the Day of the Dead. Candy is supposed to be sweet.
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Mexico celebrates Day of the Dead--Dia de los Muertos--by eating candy skulls.
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No. People buy and eat candy skulls for Day of the Dead.
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Sugar skulls are a handcraft such as a woven sweater, which prevents any official statistics. However, there are many commercial candy makers that manufacture this skulls on varying degrees of sophistication, from humble candy workers that make them on their very own homes and sell them on the street, to full corporations such as Hershey's that manufacture them specifically for the Mexican market.
That would be in Mexico on The Day Of The Dead.
Skeletons and skulls are used to represent Day of the Dead because they represent dualism.
The sugar and chocolate skulls sold around the Day of the Dead (November 1 and 2)
The skulls were a sacrifice to the war god named Tezcatlipoca. He demanded human skulls which were placed on a skull rack, along with human hearts, as sacrifices.