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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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