Lyr Req: Who Stole the Kishka?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Stole the Kishka?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 06:13 PM

Frankie Yankovic spells it "Who Stole the Keeshka?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCqZQUhBBHw

Also spelled Kishka and Kiszka on this performance by Mollie B and Ted Lange:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxeCGjnhZIk

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Stole the Kishka?
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 06:39 PM

Is Frankie Yankovic
the father of
the inimitable Weird Al Yankovic?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Stole the Kishka?
From: GUEST,Kathy Miner
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 10:35 PM

No, oddly enough, they’re not related.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Stole the Kishka?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 11:43 PM

I thought Weird Al and Frankie Yankovic were father and son, but apparently there's no relation. Whatever the case, the both of them are near and dear to Joe Offer's Wisconsin heart.
Joe

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Who Stole the Kishka?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 Dec 20 - 12:10 AM

There is mention above of stuffed derma. Although both are intestines, the stuffings differ. Derma was stuffed with grain, fat, sauteed onions and mushrooms. Kishka has a ground or chopped meat based filling mixed in with the grain. Similar herbs and spices get mixed into the filling of both.

Way back when, my grandmother used a product called Nyafat [sort of a kosher cousin of Crisco] as the fat. I have one of what is probably very few remaining jars and I use it to make my Passover matzoh balls. When it's gone I will probably fill the jar with Crisco just to maintain a semblance of the tradition.