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Here in Detroit, Fat Tuesday means paczki, which are deep-fried dough filled with jam or something similar. To the unintiated (like me four years ago), they resemble a jelly doughnut, but don’t be fooled. They are no such thing.

If you’ve waited till today to find a paczki, you could be out of luck. All the best Polish bakeries will probably be sold out, but if you want to try, Hamtramck Star ^[2] has a list of the places you can get paczki (list ^[3]). Worst case, I have seen them sold in Meijer and Kroeger before.

So where do you get your paczki?

Photo from Wikipedia, where you can also find some interesting paczki history (link ^[4])