Day of the Dead Candy: Quiebradientes

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Day of the Dead Candy: Quiebradientes

Quiebradientes, teethbrakers, are typical and traditional hard candy from Guatemala. As the name implies, it is hard and it can break your teeth you have weak pearly whites. These candies may be appropriate to entertain the trick-or-treaters for a long while on the eve of Día de los difuntos, Day of the Dead, also known as Halloween; don’t you think?.

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This entry was written by Rudy Girón and posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 11:48 pm and is filed under Food & Drinks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Day of the Dead Candy: Quiebradientes”

Sheila Fernandes says:

November 1, 2009 at 10:24 am

This treats look so colorfull and delicious even though i had a lot of candy from yesterday halloween.

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