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Today is Fat Tuesday. This morning our landlady's Polish caregiver Barbara brought us a dozen of the traditional Fat Tuesday breakfast doughnut called a Paczki (poonchki). Paczki are big fried donuts filled with various fruit flavors such as prune and raspberry. In Poland, Paczki Day is traditionally the Thursday before Lent. But Americans moved the celebration to Fat Tuesday.
In case you haven't heard of Fat Tuesday before (I hadnt), it is a day when Catholics celebrate living high off the hog until lean tomorrow, or Lent as it is better known. Mardi Gras literally means "Fat Tuesday" in French. The name comes from the tradition of slaughtering and feasting upon a fattened calf on the last day of Carnival. Carnival comes from the Latin words carne vale, meaning "farewell to the flesh."
Thanks to Barbara and Mrs. Kraft we will all have a little more flesh to say farewell to. Maybe we should also fast tomorrow. Paczkis are awefully good!
12:05 PM - Feb. 28, 2006 -
Fat Tuesday
I've never heard of "fat Tuesday" but in my home today we celebrated "shrove Tuesday" (also PANCAKE Tuesday)
interesting!
Sweetie - 12:09 AM - Mar. 1, 2006
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