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Take Your Tops Off: A Mardi Gras Alternative

February 23, 2009 at 8:46 AM | by | Comments (0)

OK, actually maybe leave your tops on, because this one's gonna be a little cold. But Mardi Gras isn't just for peeps lucky enough to make it to the balmy French Quarter. One of the longest standing Fat Tuesday celebration goes down tomorrow in bone-shattering Detroit.

In most Polish-American communities, Fat Tuesday is well known as Paczki (poonch-key) Day, and even better known as the "Polish St. Patrick's Day," when the raucous parties revolve not around strings of beads but paczki--deep-fried mini-cakes filled with Bavarian crème, lemon custard and other sweet treats--OK fine, they're donuts, but special holiday donuts, traditionally the last treats eaten before the start of Lent.

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