Piñatas

I was walking this morning and I passed in front of a candy shop and I saw a lot of piñatas, that put a smile on my face, because piñatas reminds me of birthday parties.

They came in many sizes and shapes from Winnie the Pooh to Santa Claus , from Spiderman to 'La Catrina'. The last one was the one that caught my eye this morning, because I've never seen 'La Catrina' (skeleton wearing a dress an a hat, festive representation of dead since we are still celebrating 'the day of dead infants' ) as a piñata.

This reminds me of two different things,
1. An American girl told me 'we were taught that mexican economy was based on piñatas'
2. A special kind of 'Tamal' made in the yucatan peninsula called 'pib' that is a Mayan word that means 'buried', in this case is a chicken buried tamal, a tipical food for celebrating Dead's Day.