Paczki Day (aka Fat Tuesday) may sound like an excuse to grab a dozen doughnuts, but it is so much more. The paczki is a Polish doughnut: fried dough filled with fruit preservatives or sweet cream and topped with powdered sugar or glaze. Lest you be wondering, About.com's Guide to Eastern European Food has a video demonstrating how to make a paczki.
Fat Tuesday History

Historically, Fat Tuesday was an opportunity for Polish Catholics to eat all the sugar, eggs and lard in their house before Lent. Whether Catholic or not, however, Detroiters know a good holiday when they taste it and head to Hamtramck (Polish City within the city limits of Detroit) -- the city that made Fat Tuesday a week-long holiday

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