From Yiddish, rendered chicken or
goose fat. in east European cooking
chicken fat is used as an
easy fix to otherwise tasteless cooking. in other words, its a Crowd pleaser.
in jewish slang, Schmalts refers to a tacky, overdone or outright exploitative piece of art or design.
Goyim: hi man, have you seen that food-porn video where they use
lard in a matzo-ball soup? i thought you guys don't eat
pork.
jew: that's just Schmaltz.
