WAIE (whatamieating.com)


This is the searchable online international food dictionary with 67,413 terms in 307 languages plus 42,027 plurals.

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Plural: smalec

Description: Pork fat fried with herbs and sliced onions, dipped in sea salt and served with hunks of bread (the way my mother used to serve dripping when I was a child) or as a bar snack. This came from the original need of peasants to stock up on energy, getting it direct from the port fat.