>schmuckendrops are beads of sweat from a schmuck
Since Schmuck is (cheap) jewelry in German (thus the origin of the
family jewels), and you can't get sweat from one (at least not
directly), there must be another derivation. The famous preservative
company (not the German one, where a preservative is a condom),
Smuckers, has a process of extraction, rarely used on peppers, which
leaves the fruit "smucked" or "smucken," produces drops of extract.
These drops, are, of course, smuckendrops.
No doubt Lynn never saw the word written down.
scott@see, my German IS good for something...