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parson's- (or pope's- or bishop's-) nose:

The rump of a chicken or other fowl; more common in the nineteenth century than in the present ecumenical age. An epicurean morsel-a parson's nose (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, 1839). The papal form may be the oldest; it was included by Capt. Francis Grose in the 1788 edition of his Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. The French have a similar expression: le bonnet d'évêque, bishop's cap. See also drumstick.

Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk, © 1995 by Hugh Rawson