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Fat Tuesday - do you have pazckis in your office today? (1 Viewer)

BobbyLayne

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Tough to find in NYC. Greenpoint has several Polish bakeries. In fifteen years I've only found one place in Manhattan - meat market on the Lower East Side.

Fat Tuesday is the one day of the year I'm jealous of the fatties in flyover land.

 
Al Czervik said:
Yes, I think every office around here has them today. Big thing in Detroit area.
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Somebody on FB I went to high school with in Michigan found them at Publinx in FL yesterday.

WTH, New York?!

 
No. But, I am sure our Toledo office has them today though. I should have planned my travels better.

 
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Bunch of Pazckis, bunch of Indians... we're going through an SAP conversion so there's a ton of consultants running around.

 
Went to our grocery store last night (Schnuck's) and saw some there. Never heard of them. Just looked like a big stuffed donut. What's so special about them?

 
Got a dozen sitting 24" from my keyboard... I tried a blueberry one... what's the difference between these and a jelly filled doughnut??

 
I brought in a dozen. Everyone that sees them says the same thing about how they can't or shouldn't eat one because they are so bad for you.

Then they inevitably grab one, but emphasize that it's JUST ONE (if you ate two of these things you'd go into a diabetic coma) and walk away stuffing their face.

The dozen was gone inside an hour, like always. Delicious.

 
We have at least 100 of them in the office today. They sell them every where in Michigan. I am surprised that we celebrate Fat Tuesday so much here. Isn't it a polish holiday?

 
playin4beer said:
Got a dozen sitting 24" from my keyboard... I tried a blueberry one... what's the difference between these and a jelly filled doughnut??
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I honestly don't know, but I am told the authentic ones taste a lot better and you can tell a big difference between them and doughnuts.

 
Yes. Annual tradition, same guy goes to the same Polish bakery to get them every year. One of the perks of living in heavily Polish city....the Easter season sweets. Won't be long before placek becomes a staple in my diet.

 
msudaisy26 said:
playin4beer said:
Got a dozen sitting 24" from my keyboard... I tried a blueberry one... what's the difference between these and a jelly filled doughnut??
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I honestly don't know, but I am told the authentic ones taste a lot better and you can tell a big difference between them and doughnuts.
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:shrug:

These are from Wesco, so I don't know that they are "authentic" or not, but I honestly couldn't tell the difference... I don't see what the big deal is..

 
Leroy Hoard said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
we had them last week on Fat Thursday.
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Is Fat Tuesday now like the 12 days of Christmas?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%85czki

Paczki Day

In Poland, pączki are eaten especially on Fat Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek), the last Thursday prior to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. The traditional reason for making paczki was to use up all the lard, sugar, eggs and fruit in the house, because their consumption was forbidden by Catholic fasting practices during Lent.

In the large Polish community of Chicago, and in other large cities across the Midwest, Paczki Day is celebrated annually by immigrants and locals alike. In Buffalo, Toledo, Cleveland, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, South Bend, and Windsor, Paczki Day is more commonly celebrated on Fat Tuesday instead of Fat Thursday. Chicago celebrates the festival on both Fat Thursday and Fat Tuesday, due to its sizable Polish population. Chicagoans also often eat paczki on Casimir Pulaski Day.

In Hamtramck, Michigan, an enclave of Detroit, there is an annual Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday) Parade,[3] which has gained a devoted following. In the Metro Detroit area, it is so widespread throughout the region that many bakeries have line-ups for paczki on Paczki Day.[6] The Paczki Day celebrations in some areas are even larger than many celebrations for St. Patrick's Day.[citation needed] In some areas, Paczki Day is celebrated with paczki-eating contests. The eating contest in Evanston, Illinois, started in 2010, and is held on the weekend before Fat Tuesday, while Hamtramck's contest is held on the holiday.
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