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Re: Country names

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, May 8, 2003, 18:23
Yitzik wrote:
> Oh, now I see "lard" means melted fat. But Ukrainians eat _salo_: it is
*RAW*
> slice of adipose tissue. Just the pieces of raw pig fat, salted, or not.
eeeuw.....
> For frying they use _smalecj_ : melted pig fat/grease >
Hmm, that looks a lot like _schmaltz_ 'lard' in the dict., usually 'chicken fat' in US Yiddish IIRC.

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