She was crushing your bread. https://youtu.be/8t4pmlHRokg
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Jewish chicarrones. The best.
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That’s why I’m so surprised I’ve never heard of this–although I’m not Jewish, I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. The family often joked that my sisters and I attended far more bar\bat mitzvahs than confirmations and I always felt bad that I didn’t get to attend Hebrew school like all of my friends.
It’s really old school, and probably went out of style due to its serious fattiness. Some of the more hipster-type delis (eg, Wise Sons in SF) are rediscovering it.
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Even more surprising as dad was old school (b. 1920), also the product of a Jewish neighborhood and loved all things fatty and fried.
There are several places in Berlin (including a few Thai restos where this app never went out of fashion) where one can order fried chicken skins with a dip as an app. LOVE. IT.
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I went to a YWHA camp as a child and a Yeshiva residency as an adult. And mixed up the trays. 
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Gift article.
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Thanks @meekah that was a good read. Ms Newhouse has it right–our ancestors were quite wise.
Michael Ruhlman had an app for iOS called “Schmaltz” but he withdrew it from the App Store when it came out in hardcover. I had the app, but it’s no longer functional-or available-even though I bought it.
Well that doesn’t seem right. I wonder if Michael Solomonov’s cookbooks include any schmalz recipes?
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I do fry up the excess skin to render the fat, but I don’t need THAT much fat and besides, my freezer is full of saved savories like that.
I can never have enough fat sources in the house (butter, bacon, chicken, what have you), so I’ll happily munch on the crispy chickie chips & save the liquid gold for scrambled eggs.
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Use the extra fat to cook potatoes in. They taste so good that way!
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I do!!!
New pet peeve experienced today. I guess I haven’t been paying attention to the supermarket aisles lately, but today I noticed they are narrower and every cold/frozen item is now displayed in an upright cold case with doors. Two shopping carts can’t pass side by side.
So, is this a product of the pandemic or new efficient refrigeration? Today is Wednesday and I’ve been out grocery shopping for 3 days (‘supply chain issues’ dictate I shop 4-6 stores now to buy what I want) and every store has gone to this design. Jeez.
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Mamaleh’s in Cambridge used to serve them, but looking at their menu, they no longer do. I had them there once and was transported back to childhood at the first bite.
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Which supermarket is this? I’ve never heard of this (where 2 carts can’t pass by each other). Are these what I’d call “stand alone” floor freezers where you reach in the sliding door at the top vs. a line of freezers in the entire row with sliding doors in front of you?
This
vs this?
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None of our chain markets here in OC/SoCal have narrowed the aisles. The only navigation issue occurs when they put in a floor display in an aisle or when some shopper parks their cart at an angle in the middle of an aisle. Our markets mostly use the tall glass-doored freezer units, but some also have the other type (always in the meat department).
I’d bet on ‘maximizing floor space’ if a market has narrowed their aisles.
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