Happy Paczki Day

Submitted by blueday on
Heading out to Hamtramck for the festivities.

JHumich

February 13th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^

People who don't like donuts with goo...

I suppose it's (quite literally) a matter of taste

Packi Day rules

And, year round, the glazed, jelly-filled chocolate log (I don't even know what they're called) is the king of all yumminess in donut land.

Der Alte

February 13th, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^

"I am a jelly doughnut." Ein Berliner is a jelly-filled pastry, available at most any Bäckerei (bakery) in Germany. When President Kennedy was in Berlin in the early sixties and said "Ich bin ein Berliner," he very technically called himself a jelly doughnut. He should nave dropped the article and just said "Ich bin Berliner." But any concern about the misuse of the term ein Berliner was grossly overblown --- all Berliners knew exactly what he meant: that he was one of them.

MgoHillbilly

February 13th, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^

First thing, what the fuck is a paczi? Second thing, my wife and I saw an old man with dusty hands in home depot eating a jelly donut by tongueing (sp?) the jelly out and moaning. I'm not allowed to eat them anymore as a result. Ever. I told her she wouldn't mind when she's 80 but she doesn't think that's funny.

Blue in PA

February 13th, 2018 at 12:42 PM ^

If you're eating donuts, you aren't eating paczki..... 

In fact, if they came from a grocery chain, they aren't panczki.

 

Paczki like Babica made, those were the bomb, with enough calories to carry you through 40 days and nights.

 

Na Zdrowie

darkstar

February 13th, 2018 at 2:24 PM ^

but isn't the day before Ash Wednesday supposed to be more about an excess of hookers, booze and blow before Lent starts instead of just eating pastries?  At least that's what they taught me in Catholic school.  

Eng1980

February 13th, 2018 at 9:30 PM ^

The clerk at the bakery asked if I wanted the box tied with a string.  I said, "Don't bother, they won't make it home."  I was half right.

The man in line behind me couldn't stop laughing.

They were from my favorite Italian bakery.  Prune filled were not available.  I had to settle for blueberry, cherry, and apple.