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Your ARWYDK - February 28, 2006 - 10:21 PM - ℓ

Thank you for using the proper singular of "paczki." But what I did not know was that eating these blobs on Fat Tuesday rather than Fat Thursday (the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday) is specific to Metro Detroit, or at least was until this paczki marketing scheme took off, and is due to the French influence in the area. That's really a pretty obscure piece of American ethnic trivia.

I'm very fond of the minimal remnants of French culture that one finds in southeastern Michigan. The long blocks where there once were ribbon farms. The word "river" going in front of the river's name. The odd accent that you hear if you talk to an old person who grew up in Monroe or one of the other smaller Downriver towns.

They're solving the zoo problem, so have fun the next time you're "at the narrows"!

J - March 1, 2006 - 10:38 AM - ℓ

Hey, turns out they don't have extra pastries available on Fat Tuesday in the northern south. OK, score one for the midwest.

Cheryl - March 1, 2006 - 12:16 PM - ℓ

Blech, I had to get custard ones because I went too late at night and to the crappy grocery store (cause, you know, the other one's *so* much more upscale. Please note sarcasm.). But they were good anyway!

Wop wop.

Fraulein N - March 3, 2006 - 9:08 AM - ℓ

I had never heard of paczki, but of course now I want some. Mmm.

Dave - March 3, 2006 - 8:01 PM - ℓ

Sacrilege. Ohioans just can't get anything right.

I have to say I've annoyed any number of people by correcting them whenever I heard them say "a paczki" or "paczkis."

Sapphire - March 4, 2006 - 8:34 AM - ℓ

That's why it's called Obese America.