Go Silly in Philly

Eat your heart out The Mutter Museum gift shop gleefully sells bouncing eyeballs, skeleton key chains and a set of sticky body parts for $3.50. But for those who really want to sink their teeth into their anatomy studies, it's gotta be a trip to Chocolate by Mueller. Here, in the historic Reading Terminal Market, Theresa and Glenn Mueller and their family offer luscious chocolate hearts, lungs, noses, ears and hands, each correct to the last nodule and vein. Sweethearts send the lung with a card to say "You Take My Breath Away" and punsters buy a dozen noses instead of roses for Valentine's Day. "My wife came up with the idea of an anatomically correct heart about four years ago, when our son-in-law was in med school," said Glenn. "So we hired an artist to make the sculpture and then a mold maker." When boxer Mike Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear, that was the signal for the Muellers to crank up production. "The chocolate ears are still a big seller," Glenn said. Beyond natural body parts, the Muellers have stretched their novelty to pink-and-white dentures and even a chocolate-covered onion. How does that taste? "It's awful," Glenn said with a proud, honest chuckle. "But they get a lot of laughs, and make good table centerpieces. And," he added as a bonus, "the onions start growing if you keep them long enough."