波蘭甜甜圈日 增肥星期二高脂高熱量

杭州阿立

2023年2月21日，Paczki Day

今天是波蘭甜甜圈日（Paczki Day），米國的增肥星期二（Fat Tuesday）：波蘭-米國傳統節日。Paczki是複數，讀音為Poonch-key（有的地方讀成 punch-key)。Paczki比米國甜甜圈（Donuts）嚴重更高脂肪、高熱量幾倍，更美味饞人、增肥首選，為了應付由第二天的聖灰星期三（Ash Wednesday）開始的齋戒四旬期（Lent）。

宗教的禮儀咱們打住，只看波蘭甜甜圈，只管增肥。

先看咱們蜜州州立大學的介紹Paczki Day：

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《Pączki Day: A Polish tradition becomes an American tradition》

What do you know about the Polish-American tradition celebrated on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday? You may have heard it called Fat Tuesday.

A most popular Polish-American tradition is celebrated on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. You may have heard it called Fat Thursday or Tłusty Czwartek (pronounced Twoosti Chvartek). In Polish-American culture, Pączki Day (punch-key) is a once-a-year event and is only celebrated on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, which always falls in the seventh week before the Christian holiday Easter.  It is speculated that in the U.S., the Polish communities have adopted Fat Tuesday as Packi Day to fit in with the general festivities when they immigrated to the U.S. 

People will ask for pączkis, not realizing that pączki is already the plural of pączek (punch-ek). Pączki are very rich donuts, deep fried and then filled with fruit or cream filling and covered with powdered sugar or icing.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. Traditionally, Lent was 40 days of fasting, meaning only one meal a day and full fasting on Friday. Any rich foods were not allowed. The Tuesday before Lent, people of Poland used up food so that it would not be spoiled or wasted. Families would use up their eggs, butter and sugar and fruit by treating themselves one last time before Lent began with these rich donuts. This tradition was started in the medieval age during the reign of August III.

In the United States, Paczki Day was always popular in the Polish communities from the beginning of the 20th century. Polish immigrants settled in different parts of the U.S. such as Detroit, Michigan; Baltimore, Maryland; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Saginaw, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Buffalo, New York; and especially Hamtramck, Michigan, where the Polish bakeries would have pączki for sale on Fat Tuesday morning. In smaller communities, it was the local Polish parish that came together to make and sell pączki.

Recently, Pączki Day has expanded as more people have heard about this Polish tradition and want to become a part of this tasty holiday. Paczki can be found up to a month before Fat Tuesday in almost every food store: deli, grocery and bakery. People just cannot pass up a delicious food holiday and Pączki Day can be considered one of the best. To learn more, I would encourage research into the history of the settling of Polish immigrants in the U.S.

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回到咱們昨天的增肥行動：

蜜州是波蘭移民大州，這一周左右處處增肥、家家增肥。最正宗的paczki要到波蘭移民小鎮去，大清早排長隊沒商量。

咱們沒那麼高的增肥熱情，半夜雞叫開車幾小時去寒風裡排長隊吃不消。就近米國超市買一些，一樣增肥有效。

昨天去家附近的連鎖大超市買了三款不同風味的Paczki : 檸檬（Lemon）,巴伐利亞奶油（Bavarian Creme）,蘋果（Apple）：

節日促銷，價廉物美，不亦樂乎。

每款單獨亮相：

選兩款與阿立嫂分享。

檸檬：

巴伐利亞奶油：

清咖一杯：

兩款各吃一半（檸檬、巴伐利亞奶油）：

新鮮出爐的，乾脆3款都嘗嘗？！

蘋果風味也分享一個：

肚裡頓覺嚴重有貨，午餐也免了。