Way back when I took my ten year-old to see Amadeus. At the end they dumped his body into a common grave with other paupers and then threw in what I thought was probably lye. The boy said, “Ah, he was so poor they had to bury him in flour”.
Still makes me laugh.
LOL, nice.
Mozart’s obituary notice should have read “No flour by request”
Years later, when people would pass by the common grave they heard this weird music, like a symphony being played backwards. They finally concluded that it was just Mozart decomposing.
Lye?
Try lime. Limestone.
Both are corrosive but quite different.