My favourite holiday! Fat Thursday!

Pączki (PONCH-kee) are traditional Polish doughnuts, round deep-fried a pieces of dough filled with jam or other sweet filling, and usually covered with icing sugar.

Pączki have been known in Poland at least since the Middle Ages and are eaten especially on Fat Thursday, which falls on THIS Thursday! You eat as many donughts or fried pastry as possible and celebrate!

Many Polish Americans celebrate Pączki Day on Fat Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday). Traditionally, the reason for making pączki was to use up all the lard, sugar and eggs in the house, because they were forbidden to be consumed due to Catholic fast during Lent. 

This was my favourite holiday when I was a child, right next to Śmigus-Dyngus.