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11/05/2026

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11/01/2026

Americans get their candy on Halloween. In Warsaw, the candy comes a day later, at the cemetery gate.

It is called pańska skórka (PINE-skah SKOOR-kah), which means lord's skin. It was once called maiden's skin, for its pink and white color.

Every All Saints' Day, families come to light candles on the graves of their parents and grandparents. Sellers set up at the cemeteries with little chewy rectangles of sugar, egg white and fruit syrup, each one wrapped in parchment.

It has been around a long time. By one account it reached the Polish dictionary in 1908, when pharmacies sold it as a cough sweet. In 2008 it went on Poland's official list of traditional products.

How it is made is a Warsaw secret. Local reporters have hunted for the recipe.

Kraków has its own cemetery sweet, a hard candy with a name only Poles would love: trupi miodek (TROO-pee MYOH-dek), co**se honey.

So the children leave the cemetery with sticky fingers, and the grown-ups pretend not to want a piece.

Did your family have a treat that only came out on one special day?

10/28/2026

Thank you Lilys Florist LLC for this beautiful grave blanket. If you need one please call 973-458-8084

10/24/2026

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