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Panocha in New Mexico and southern Colorado is a pudding made from ground sprouted wheat and piloncillo. It is traditionally eaten during Lent. The sprouted-wheat flour is called panocha flour or simply panocha as well.In other regions panocha can mean penuche or panuche. In the Philippines it means a kind of cane sugar produced by a crude milling process like panela. In Spanish slang it is a taboo word for the vulva a fact that has led to many deliberate and accidental puns.
