Talk:Schmant

Wiktionary incorrectly identifies Schmant as sour milk
Schmant(d) (earlier Middle High German smant) is NOT sour milk, Schmant is the WHIPPING CREAM, the fatty part which floats ON TOP of just molken FRESH milk. The smant/Schmant is SCHLAGsahne (whipping cream part, which can be beaten into WHIPPED cream, or if whipped further, turns into butter). Schmant (smant) is created by separating (dismantling) the creamy part from (low fat, fat free) milk. Schmant(d) is (something) that's on top- "creme de la creme".

If it is good beer it also has Schmant, the beer schmantet or hat geschmantet, when you freshly pour it and it foams (has Schmantschaum).

SMANTella're is also used in Italian language, as can be seen on google books in hundreds of books since the 1600s, describing smantella Pampelona, smantella Gericho, smantella Ingolstadt, smantella de mura etc. A Dictionary of the English and Italian languageof 1760 translates smantella're to english: to dismantle, to pull down the walls of a town.

In East Friesian language smantje is "to be in luck", "bullseye", to be "on top". MfG(50.173.166.172 16:25, 22 May 2014 (UTC))