I am not Polish nor catholic, but every Fat Tuesday I get all excited. You might be wondering why I would get excited for Fat Tuesday, not I am not going to Mardi Gras, but I do crave a Paczki.That strange word at the end of the paragraph above is pronounced poon-shkey and it is freaking AWESOME! Yet it is evil, let me explain. even though Polish people hate it when I say this, but it's a giant donut of death.It's double the sugar, double the lard, double everything. The story I pieced together over the years is that in the old country the ladies needed to get rid of everything bad for Lent and one day someone thought of putting everything in a donut that you eat on Fat Tuesday. I think the Catholic church needs to find out who created this god sent and make them a saint.
Even though they can have as many calories as one and a half Big Macs and 29% of your daily fat I had to have one. Luckily Lowe's Food carries them, why I have no idea, but I raced out and bought a pack. Personally I love the lemon ones, I should get the prune filled to flush it out, but I hate prunes. It was an OK paczki, nothing as good as the Ohio Theater in Toledo, but what is. Those paczki are like mana filled awesomeness.
I'm half tempted to eat a second one, but as I wrote two years ago that might be a bad idea.
2 comments:
I haven't had one of those in years. Thing is, last time I had one was from a supermarket and it was horrible. The homemade or Polish bakery ones are the best. Shame of it is, there are no Polish bakeries anywhere near Columbus. I'm jealous.
It was grocery store bought, I did want to drive 45 minutes to Durham to the only polish bakery in the triangle... next year, I will be heading over there.
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