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Happy Pczki Day!

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SunnyD said:
Dad is Polish. Mom is Polish. I guess that makes me Polish. Grew up near Buffalo, had a lot of Polish around us.

Like I said a couple posts up:

"Ponschki"

Phonetically I guess it would be "Pahn'shkey".

That's how we said it. That's how it was said at Broadway Market. That's how it is. You'll obviously get a bit of regional differences due to accents.
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Grew up around Rome - Utica area myself. Great thing about being Polish is that my last name is not my ancestral last name. As with many polish immigrants back in the early 1900's, the last name was changed to make it easier to pronounce. there are only about 10 people in the US with my last name and their all relatives.
 
CPA said:
Grew up around Rome - Utica area myself. Great thing about being Polish is that my last name is not my ancestral last name. As with many polish immigrants back in the early 1900's, the last name was changed to make it easier to pronounce. there are only about 10 people in the US with my last name and their all relatives.
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I didn't get that lucky. My parents were imports post-WWII. They came with from England with their last name intact. It's not a traditional "ski" or "ska" one, it's short and absolutely NOBODY can pronounce it. People ask how to say it, I just spell it for them. They press the issue and I tell them, "However you want to say it, I've heard it all."

When we got married, I asked my wife if I could take her name. Unfortunately she wanted to get as far away from anything to do with her family as possible, so she said no.
 
Vdubchaos said:
We had no such a day in Poland -- YES you do have such a day -- Tłusty Czwartek

And that day was Thursday Feb 12.....not this week......
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You need to read up on your Polish history and Polish traditions.....

Today marks probably one of the sweetest days on the Polish calendar.
This day allows you to greedily stuff your face with as many Polish doughnuts as you can before the fasting season of Lent begins. This is the Polish version of Fat Tuesday!
Instead of parading and partying like other Catholic-observant countries do for Mardis Gras, the Poles stand in long, long lines to purchase pastries from the cukiernia (bakery). The most popular Polish pastry, particularly on Fat Thursday, are pączki – large, deep-fried doughnuts. These sugary sweet doughnuts are typically filled with cherry or rose petal jam, glazed with sugar, and then sometimes topped with candied orange peel. The pączki are very similar to our American jelly-filled doughnuts in the U.S., but perhaps a bit more egg-y in texture.

No discussion of Easter is complete without a mention of its much-anticipated precursor -- Fat Tuesday, also known as Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. It's the last chance to party hearty before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins. In the old days, meat and meat byproducts, like butter and eggs, couldn't be eaten during Lent. So ingenious cooks used up all their dairy and eggs during Fat Week, from Shrove Thursday to Shrove Tuesday, by making crepe-like pancakes, called nalysnyky in Ukraine, and doughnuts called spurgos in Lithuania, krofne in Serbia, and pączki (POHNCH-kee) in Poland.
 
My local Walmart bakery sells those. I thought the word looked vaguely Polish. Unfortunately the box they're in does nothing to indicate why I should spend $4 vs. $2.78 for Walmart doughnuts - so I and everyone else ignore them. ()🙂
 
Had one at work today; raspberry filling. Fucking thing was spectacular. People at work pronounced it "poonch-key."
 
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