Death & Desserts

No need for the Spooky Girls to wait for October to be Spooky. Ghosts don't pay attention to the calendar and neither do we. Today we gather around the campfire for some yummy S'Mores Cupcakes from Bri's Sweet Treats and dig into some ghostly experiences. This is the first episode in what we plan to flesh out in future episodes. This is your ghostly primer. What's the difference between ghosts, an...

We finally return from hiatus with a special episode to commemorate Sonne’s sisters' birthday (40 looks great on you, Rachel!) Our Rachel is fascinated by the Royal Family, so what better way to jump back into the saddle, than to eat yummy chocolate tombstone cakes and discuss The Monarchy? What happens immediately and automatically upon the death of a Monarch? What’s the difference between a Stat...

From the bottom of our dark hearts, thank you to everyone who wrote in and shared their thoughts and dreams with us. We didn’t expect to be so moved by “bucket lists” but we were. And your lists gave us things to contemplate, as I hope they do for other listeners. We’ll be thinking about this one for a while. Also, chocolate chip cookies really are the best go-to, aren’t they? https://www.sporcle....

Classically, blackbirds are thought to be bad luck or omens of death. In the rest of the nursery rhyme, one of the birds goes on to snip off some poor girl's nose. How did the birds survive the baking? Bçse, they're powerful beings, of course. Along with owls, condors, bats, ravens,  crows, and tiny, flitting moths.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence https://www.pelletsinc.com/...

Where did the idea of the Rainbow Bridge come from? Why are we both so bothered by the concept of a dog not getting into heaven when we are both Atheists and don’t believe in an afterlife, heaven or hell? What options do we have for memorializing and burying our pets? Discuss all this and more in today’s special episode - which we dedicate to my beloved companion who passed April 27th. I highly re...

Let us stroll, darklings, in the graveyards and memorial gardens and learn about all the different types of places one can be laid to rest. On the way, maybe we’ll stop to sit upon a ledger stone or at a table tomb and snack on some homemade sugar cookies and sip sweet tea from Old Growth Alchemy. What’s the difference between an ossuary and a columbarium? What’s a tent tomb? And what is up with e...

Even if you’re as busy as folks in Sweden, you can still listen to us discuss modern funerary and mourning practices in the chilly and chill Scandinavian countries and Nordic territories and maybe even take a break with some cream puffs (or some danishes, if you’re early enough!) from Farm To Cake Bakery in Waynesville, NC. Plus Sonne & Czarria plot their demise via Reindeer, but not Polar Bea...

We put on our serious faces in Asheville Hair Design to talk to Tricia about her experience helping folks with a part of mourning most of us don’t think about. It does get kinda heavy, so make sure you have a cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes for some emotional support. And my youngest makes his podcast debut! Trivia was found at https://historyofyesterday.com/causes-of-elizabeth-i-death-the-reality-b...

When your little brother’s back on his bullshit and kills you, but that doesn’t stop your sister wife and your potential love child from resurrecting you. A Family drama that rivals the Greek gods? Must be the Death Gods of Egypt. Let’s stop at Gypsy Queen Cuisine in Asheville, NC, and dust off the hieroglyphs to tell the story of the most famous set of siblings in the Egyptian pantheon and even t...

Funerals in the western world tend to follow the same familiar templates, largely impacted by the endemic Christian religion, so we got curious about local traditions and colloquial customs. From France’s sweet sentimentality to Switzerland’s gardens of the dead, have an eclair and join us as we wander around the cemeteries and mourning places of western European countries. Credits - research was...

In our very first episode and the very first attempt of ever doing something like this, we discuss trying to define death, why we need to define death, and why it isn’t as easy as we thought. We also rave about the Black Forest cake from Amanda Brown of Amanda’s Cakes and Stuff and talk about Corpse Tourism, which isn’t what I thought it was. Please be kind and patient with us, we’re still learnin...