Yes. This candy is called "Collon." Collon are pieces of crisp tube-shaped cookie filled with chocolate and bits of toasted almond. The colon, you may know, is part of the lower intestine. And a crisp tube-shaped cookie filled with chocolate and bits of toasted almond, you may know, looks just like slices of intestine filled with -- well, let's just say they look like very full intestines.

These aren't bad, kind of like any number of crispy creme-filled cookies from Europe you can buy at Trader Joe's. The almonds add a light nutty flavor that is nice.

But really. "Collon"?! Whoever came up with the name must know. The cookie part is even ridged in that uneven way I recognize from attending the Bodyworlds exhibit at the California Science Center and staring at a plastinated digestive system. I imagine it was a sniggering American, jaded after years of teaching English in Japan, who first suggested the name.

Jaded English Teacher: Whoa, this stuff really looks like -- hey... you should call this candy "Colon."

Japanese Candy Developer 1: Really? What does that mean?

Jaded English Teacher: It means... "chocolate" in... German.

Japanese Candy Developer 2: German? I studied German in college. I thought "chocolate" was "Schokolade."

Jaded English Teacher: Listen. Who are you gonna believe -- Kobayashi-san here, or the guy who spent three weeks in Austria after graduation?

Japanese Candy Developer 1: How do you spell "colon"?

Jaded English Teacher: C... O... L... uh... L... O... N.

The extra L was so no one in Japan would Google "colon" and find out the truth, I'm convinced.