LANSING, Mich. — Fat Tuesday in Mid-Michigan is underway and donut shops are already lined up with customers trying to get some paczki.
Paczki area pastry, often with a filling, regularly eaten on Fat Tuesday. Fat Tuesday is the precursor to the Lenten season, and the paczki are seen as an indulgence before the traditional 40-day period of fasting before Easter.
Paczki are a Polish food but reportedly became popular in Midwestern cities in the 1880s because of a large population of Polish immigrants.
Michigan staple, Quality Dairy, says they estimate they make 500,000 paczki every year.
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