gribenes

Borrowed from Yiddish גריבענעס‎ (gribenes), from Middle High German griebe (“piece of fat, crackling”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪbənəs/

gribenes (uncountable)

1. A snack food in Eastern European Jewish cuisine, combining cracklings of chicken or goose skin with fried onions
   • 2008 February 20, “Letters”, in New York Times‎:

     But the only gribenes I ate growing up came from my grandmother’s South Beach kitchen.

   • Robin Williams in w:Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
     • "Oi, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a Mohel. It's so chewy."
2. Cracklings from rendered chicken fat
   • Calvin Trillin, The Tummy Trilogy anthology, New York: Noonday Press (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux), 1974, p. 166 (variant spelling: greven); originally published in Alice, Let's Eat

• Isenberg, rebegins