Likewise for gnocchi and necking
The quote of the day comes from an unnamed aide to Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell, about Cantwell being spotted in an Italian restaurant in D.C., dining with disgraced New Jersey Senator Bob Torricelli, where the two were said to be "all over each other":
"Yes, we can confirm that Sen. Cantwell did see both Torricelli and Lautenberg at Galileo, but it was not a date. Cannoli is not the same thing as canoodling."
(From Lloyd Grove's Lowdown in today's New York Daily News.)
As Groucho noted: "Whoever named it 'necking' was a poor judge of anatomy."