Since moving to Detroit, I’ve discovered that Fat Tuesday is a day to eat paczki — a really dense jelly/cream-filled doughnut apparatus. It’s supposedly Polish and since everyone and their brother has a Polish grandma around these parts, it’s apparently mandatory to eat one of these things today.
Well, I’m not Polish — I’m German. And I hate jelly/cream doughnuts. And I don’t really like dense pastries very much either. And so I’d just like to put on the record that German cream puffs:
are infinitely greater than paczki (and much easier to spell and pronounce…I still call them pa-zacky in my head)
I mean, I’m just sayin’.
