filigranka:razziecat:filigranka:polandinyourpocket:What’s your favourite kind of #paczki? Suga
filigranka:razziecat:filigranka:polandinyourpocket:What’s your favourite kind of #paczki? Sugar glaze with candied orange peel or sugar-powder?A celebration of gluttonous indulgence, #tłustyczwartek or #fatthursday marks the last day before the fasting season of #lent in #Poland.Tomorrow is paczki-munchin day!#polandinyourpocket #travelslow #travelsmart #travelguide #travelpoland #traveleurope #eatinpoland #lovetotravel #polandfood #polska #visitpoland #travelawesome #traveladdict #travelholic #foodpornMy answer is faworki. Faworki are better . ;)And tłusty czwartek marks the beginning of the last week of the carnival, the Lent starts in the next week, the last day before it at the next Tuesday, Ostatki/Podkoziołek/Śledzik/I apologise to the names I forgot.I was trying to be clever and circumvent the queues by buying pączki today on the marketplace, but in all five bakeries they said they’ll have more kinds tomorrow (well, I still buy them anyway and have a lot, but not in every type! I’ll have to go tomorrow again. and only a few of bakeries make faworki!).Isn’t pączkiday the day before Lent starts? AKA Shrove Tuesday? In other countries, I don’t know, but in contemporary Poland The Pączki Day ;) is definitely tomorrow, starting the last week of the Carnival. The Tuesday before Ashen Wednesday (Ostatki, Podkoziołek, Śledzik, Zapusty… it has many names, depends on the region/family, although, Ostatki and Zapusty are in theory for the whole last week. but most of the people use it only for the Shrove Tuesday) is another day for partying&meeting with friends&eating sweets/meat&drink alcohol, but it’s more focused on consuming “vodka+herring” (but sweets&other meats are served, too! it’s just another occasion to meet with your friends, party, dance and eat things, and drink alcohol, before you say goodbye to them for the Lent) - hence the name Śledzik/Herring Day - and also, traditionally, everything which was left over the last week of the carnival and is not possible to consume during Lent, to not waste the food.Because faworki+pączki are the usual carnival sweets, people will eat a lot of them at Tuesday, too - they will be the part of the leftovers, in tradition, nowadays, probably freshly bought ;)) - and during the whole Fat Thursday-Shrove Tuesday week, along with other sweets.It was less definite before the mass-media and the unification they brought era, so, before WWII, as far as I know - people generally celebrate in a less uniformed way. So, in older immigration communities, created before WWII, the divide might be still not so clear and the pączki might be eaten on Tuesday mostly, because they might preserve their own regional pre-war customs - or the opposite, modify them so they’d fit their new community better. I say “might” because I’m not a specialist on the culture of the specific immigrant circles, so can’t say for sure, sorry.But the fight to bring some decent pączki home tomorrow will be very real. :DAt this pace, I’m starting to doubt our homemade faworki will last till tomorrow… -- source link
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