The recipe for the Tamales Gloria and her staff made appears in "Orange Is the New Black Presents: The Cookbook."
The joke ending in the punchline "he's not an eggplant, he's retarded" is delivered by three different characters in three different episodes. This is the third out of three times the punchline was used, this time by Nicky. The other two times were by Red in Tit Punch (2013) and Cesar in a later episode. The full joke has yet to be heard.
The "Just Married" board that Nicky makes has Bora Bora Bora at the top. Bora Bora Bora was mentioned in and is also the title of Bora Bora Bora (2013).
The full Bible verse Pennsatucky quotes is: Luke, 19:27, "Jesus said, 'But those, mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.'"
Red tells Nicky that her daughter-in-law moved to Sheepshead Bay. Kate Mulgrew played Mary Ryan in Ryan's Hope (1975), in which is where Jack Fenelli lives in Sheepshead Bay. Jack and Mary were high profile love story for many years.