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OK, mebbe it's from German. I've seen them referred to several times. Once in the movie Amadeus. They are a confection. One could imagine the shape and one would likely be right.
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For All Saints' Day (1st Nov.), we also eat "Saint's Bones", tubular sweets of white marzipan with some kind of dark filling in them. A bit grim, but pretty tasty... 
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the parson's (Pope's) nose
My grandmother called this 'the part that goes over the fence last'
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Nipple of Venus
They are either cakes, sort of like cupcakes but flatter and rounder, in fact the same shape as a breast; or sometimes a mousse. If a cake, iced, if a mousse colored, pink to look like flesh, with a cherry half or maybe raspberry in the center. They can be quite realistic.
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My grandmother called this 'the part that goes over the fence last'
Around here the term is "botzel."
(Not sure if I spelled that right, but then PA Dutch doesn't really have formalized spelling anyway...)
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My grandmother called this 'the part that goes over the fence last'
The vertebral column is completed in the tail region by a flat plate known as the pygostyle, which forms a support for the rectrices, or steering tailfeathers.
Also in this area in some birds there are the glands that produce oil to condition the feathers.
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Coco in Spanish can be used as coconut, head and bogeyman. When I was a kid I used to wrap my sheets around me when in bed for fear of �el coco�.
As Marianna said we have teeth and garlic heads. We also have hearts of fruits, usually apples.
We eat big ears �orejones� that are dry peaches and make a pumpkin sweet named "cabello de angel" angel�s hair.
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The vertebral column is completed in the tail region by a flat plate known as the pygostyle, which forms a support for the rectrices, or steering tailfeathers.
Also in this area in some birds there are the glands that produce oil to condition the feathers.
Hence, the term "Parson's nose".
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http://www.ddc.com/cheferic/gloss.htmThe above has lots of neat terms defined. No luck with "Nipples of Venus" and I would like the recipe. (by PM please) For a dessert with that name I would throw a party for a few select friends! It must be a dessert, musn't it?
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These are all such great examples! I love that many are naughty: Pope's nose, testicles, nun's fart, and nipples of Venus. I guess food just brings that out in people. And now that Marianna mentions it, I remember having "bones of the dead" cookies from a local, and very traditional Italian pastry shop in NY's East Village. They were really crunchy! I'm going to hunt up a comprehensive list of Italian pasta -- I have a feeling that it's a motherlode....
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