These indulgent Fat Tuesday Polish donuts are called Paczki (pronounced "poonch-key" or "punch-key"). You'll see these jelly or custard filled polish donuts for 1 to 3 days tops in March each year.

Rudy’s Strudel, the North Coast’s biggest champion of paczki for Fat Tuesday, is already mixing dough for Paczki Season 2025. And they’re introducing two new flavors, each with a meaningful backstory.

Located in the heart of New Britain's Little Poland, everyone converges on Roly Poly for their Fat Thursday paczki. Roly Poly ...

heightened awareness of Paczki Day began in the early '80s when, as food writer, I did a couple of stories about the Polish phenomenon for the popular Detroit News Food section. One piece gave Theresa ...