Mexico shows a great liking for sweets; no block is complete without its little stands or peregrinating hawkers of all manner of temptations to the sweet-toothed, ranging from squares of "fudge" in all colors of the rainbow to barber-pole sticks a half-yard long.
"Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond"
Harry A. Franck