It's Paczki Day!

[hisno1girl]

OMG I had a custard one for breakfast and I'm going to have a cherry one for dessert.

I missed out last year. Never again!!!

[circa1978]

We don't have any in the office but we have two enormous king cakes. I'm on a crazy sugar high right now.

[fluffernutter]

Yessssssssss. H has one waiting for me at home.

[bex1973]

I still need to get one!!!

[mrs.jacinthe]

I haven't had one since I moved to California. No one here seems to know what they are. I asked in our local donut place and they offered me a jelly donut. Lol, no. Eat another one for me, would you?

[NewGirlNic]

I'm doing low-carb but I want one sooooo bad. The custard are my favorite. 

Bakeries around here carry them all throughout Lent, so I might wait until after my vacation and having to wear a bathing suit all next week. 

[hisno1girl]

Feb 28, 2017 14:16:31 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

I haven't had one since I moved to California. No one here seems to know what they are. I asked in our local donut place and they offered me a jelly donut. Lol, no. Eat another one for me, would you?

I was in Texas last year on Mardi Gras and they don't have them there either.

[KaraOrNot]

I had a cream cheese one. It was amazing!

[isabel]

A what? It sounds like I need this thing in my life.

[hisno1girl]

Feb 28, 2017 14:27:30 GMT -5 isabel said:

A what? It sounds like I need this thing in my life.

Paczki (pronounced: poonch-key) is a traditional Polish treat made before Lent. It's very popular in Michigan and Chicago, not sure about other places.

It's kind of like a jelly donut but it's absolutely not a donut

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pączki

One of the local Polish Catholic churches around here makes between 7,500 - 10,000 of the treats every Fat Tuesday and they always sell out.

[amberlyrose]

Feb 28, 2017 14:36:14 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Feb 28, 2017 14:27:30 GMT -5 isabel said:

A what? It sounds like I need this thing in my life.

Paczki (pronounced: poonch-key) is a traditional Polish treat made before Lent. It's very popular in Michigan and Chicago, not sure about other places.

It's kind of like a jelly donut but it's absolutely not a donut

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pączki

One of the local Polish Catholic churches around here makes between 7,500 - 10,000 of the treats every Fat Tuesday and they always sell out.

So, you're saying I should've stayed in Chicago two more days?

[venice2007]

Oh man I miss those!

[claudiajean]

Custard ones are my favorite. I haven't had one today!

[peggy]

They're SO good!

[katie80]

I could get them in western CT, but somehow whenever I talked about them, no one there knew what I was talking about.

I live in the south now and I have no hope of finding one here 😞

[CurlyQ284]

We haven't had them since we moved up here so DH went out and got a few this morning and we cut them up and had a taster. Raspberry, lemon, cream and custard. Both of us immediately felt like we were going to die lol.

I like the cream ones the best.

[chchchia]

Fat Tuesday Baby!!

[4speedy]

I stood in line for 45 minutes in the rain this morning to get the real deal at the bakery. Grocery store paczki's are not the same!

My kids both have birthdays next week so we sent paczki's in today for an early birthday treat. I bought 5 dozen and then I forgot to pull one out of the box for me. I totally missed out this year!

[cuddlyevil]

We've got them here in Ohio too. I brought some with me to a thing on Sunday

[Deleted]

I had a sad store bought one this year I miss working with people that have access to the real ones.

[adhdfashion]

/drool

[moreace01]

I admit to liking the rose flavored ones. 

[tillie]

Never heard of such a thing. Guess they don't make them here in NE

[YahYahs]

Central PA (Pennsylvania Dutch land) has fastnachts, which I think is the same concept? I only lived there a few years (I'm from Pittsburgh and not familiar with either one) - our company would bring in Krispy Kreme glazed donuts for everyone on Fat Tuesday. The locals got pissy that they couldn't spring for real fastnachts. lol

[hisno1girl]

I CANNOT TELL A LIE.

I already at the cherry one.

It was even better than the custard one!

[hisno1girl]

Feb 28, 2017 15:51:40 GMT -5 YahYahs said:

Central PA (Pennsylvania Dutch land) has fastnachts, which I think is the same concept? I only lived there a few years (I'm from Pittsburgh and not familiar with either one) - our company would bring in Krispy Kreme glazed donuts for everyone on Fat Tuesday. The locals got pissy that they couldn't spring for real fastnachts. lol

OMG glazed donuts are not even close.

We used to get ours delivered straight to the office while they were still warm.

[pistolshrimp]

I couldn't find any in NE

My mom sent me pics of some that she had this morning - blueberry and cherry with sweet cream cheese and Bavarian cream. I was drooling.

[Mrs. ChanandlerBong]

Feb 28, 2017 15:22:35 GMT -5 4speedy said:

I stood in line for 45 minutes in the rain this morning to get the real deal at the bakery. Grocery store paczki's are not the same!

My kids both have birthdays next week so we sent paczki's in today for an early birthday treat. I bought 5 dozen and then I forgot to pull one out of the box for me. I totally missed out this year!

My h usually goes to Hamtramck for them, but chose to go to the Polish American Cultural center this year so he wouldn't have to wait at 4am.

This is the first time in my life I've been disappointed by a packzi. They either weren't fresh or didn't have enough fat in them. It was like eating a roll with jelly in it. I feel cheated...
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[isabel]

Feb 28, 2017 15:27:04 GMT -5 @darkangel said:

I had a sad store bought one this year I miss working with people that have access to the real ones.

H's family is Polish and we make a lot of Polish foods, so I asked if he had ever had these. He has not, but said he saw them at King Soopers last week. I was like, "I've never had one of these things or even heard of them until today, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that my first paczki should probably not be from King Soopers."

[bunnymendelbaum]

I got a raspberry filled one from Avalon Bakery this morning after my annual doc's check up. It was the best I've ever had. The filling was real tasting and delicious!
(Just got my lab results 5 mins ago and I might have high cholesterol!? uh oh~!)