gribenes

Meaning

Noun

  • A snack food in Eastern European Jewish cuisine, combining cracklings of chicken or goose skin with fried onions

Origin

  • Borrowed from Yiddish גריבענעס, from Middle High German griebe ("piece of fat, crackling").

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