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Guatemalan Fiambre

This 50-ingredient salad is for both the living and the dead.
Most Texas sheet cakes come topped with pecans.
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Texas Sheet Cake

Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.
A tray of corn flake–topped casserole.
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Funeral Potatoes

A casserole of cheesy, corn flake–topped tubers offers comfort to Mormons in mourning.
The tomb was filled with cauldrons and drinking bowls.
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Recreating King Midas's 2,700-Year-Old Feast

A mysterious tomb contained a royal feast. Scientific analysis made it possible to taste once again.
Anne Ewbank December 11, 2017
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Mannish Water

Jamaica's spicy goat soup is also an aphrodisiac.
A pile of crispy borsok.
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Borsok

Kyrgyzstan’s fried dough marks special occasions and "feeds" the dead.
Koliva, bearing the sign of the cross.
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Koliva

Drooling over this nutty spiced dessert is a heretical move.