A speciality sausages van in Bute Street, South Kensington seen from Octavia shop window made me think of Nikolai Gogol's short story: 'Nose' which I found quite amusing. But then, my friend pointed out that parson's nose may refer not only to the clergyman's smelling organ, but also to a chicken or turkey's bone defined as follows in Dear Wiki:'Pygostyle refers to a number of the final few caudal vertebrae fused into a single ossification, supporting the tail feathers and musculature. In modern birds, the rectrices attach to these.
The pygostyle is the main component of the uropygium, a structure colloquially known as parson's nose, pope's nose, or sultan's nose. This is the fleshy protuberance visible at the posterior end of a bird (most commonly a chicken or turkey) that has been dressed for cooking.'
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