If it were any more gritty, it’d be moonlighting as a hockey mascot. It’s basically a gritty tamarind-flavored paste. It’s pretty fun to do, and it’s tasty too, a favorite of staff videographer Long. The Pelon Pelo Rico (roughly, “tasty bald hair”) gets its name from the push-pop-like action of extruding goopy tamarind through a bunch of tiny holes so that it looks like strands of hair. Remember Chia Pets? Put the seed paste on a little sheep, or a guy’s face, then watch the hair grow? There’s a lot of “hair-growing” in the Mexican candy diaspora, and I can’t say I’m mad at it. Is there anything better? Just be careful when opening the package not to spill the powder all over you (as I did in the video). Together, they complement each other nicely.įinally, the lollipop is attached to a closed loop of plastic, meaning, that’s right, you can wear it on your finger as a ring. There are layers to Lucas Muecas: First, there’s the chamoy-flavored lollipop, which sits in what looks like a small film canister (remember those?) that’s filled with salty-sweet chile powder. I didn’t like this initially but, upon retrying, it turned out to be one of my favorites, despite the similarity of the name to “Lucas Mucas,” a moniker I was tortured with in grade school.

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