The first topic is about how they celebrate day of the dead is a 3 day period and halloween is only one day. During day of the dead they visit cemetery, leave food offerings shaped like skulls at the altar along with candles, incense and a picture of the dead person. During halloween we carve jack`o lanterns out of pumpkins, decorate the house with all spooky stuff and try to get people scared, parties, and go door to door trick or treating getting a bunch of candy. The similarity is they both threw big parties and eat food.
The second topic is food there is a big