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Fat Tuesday

Monday, February 11, 2013

Happy Paczki Day, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras!

It's the day before Lent begins, and that means it's paczki time! If you're looking for the special jelly-filled pastries, here are a few places that should meet your needs.

Happy Fat Tuesday or if you prefer, happy Mardi Gras! If you are looking to live it up before Lent by consuming massive quantities of the fruit-filled fried dough known as paczkis here are a few places to find them. National Bakery: 5637 Broad St., in Greendale; 3200 S. 16th St, in Milwaukee; 13820 W. Greenfield Ave., in Brookfield For a special treat, head to the Polish Center: 6941 South 68th St., in Franklin. Paczki Day is something special here, where people line up to get boxes of the treat straight from the Polish source. And if you can’t get to any of these stores, here’s a paczki recipe. Is there a bakery we're missing? Tell us in the coments.  Have your own favorite Fat Tuesday treat? Share it!

Anthony Domitrz

12:02 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Today is one of those days where you can eat what ever you want and if someone says why are you eating that, you can just say its Fat Tuesday, back off bro.   more ›

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

In Other Words: Fat Tuesday!

It is a day of celebration!

Happy Mardi Gras! Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, always reminds me of New Orleans, so this week’s list includes books and movies that feature the city as a major component of the story. City of Refuge by Tom Piazza: Two New Orleans families-one black and one white-confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. S.J. Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern transplant, is the editor of the city's alternative paper. When the news comes of Katrina, the two families make very different plans to weather the storm. The Donaldsons join the long evacuation convoy north, while S.J. boards up his windows, where he waits it out. But when the levees give way and …

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