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Three Mardi Gras Cities Where You Can Keep Your Shirt On

Mardi Gras in St. Louis

Mardi Gras is as New Orleans as beignets. But in case you can't make it to the Crescent City for Fat Tuesday, or want to avoid the rowdy drunks and ladies flashing their business, we have some Mardi Gras alternatives for you. Whether you're looking for an option with the kiddies or straight-up debauchery, you'll still party hard in these cities.

Check out other places where you can live it up for Mardi Gras after the jump.

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Take Your Tops Off: A Mardi Gras Alternative

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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