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Polish fried donuts, or pączki, are seen in a window display at a bakery in Warsaw, Poland. People in Poland eat pączki, fried donuts filled with cream or jam, on Fat Thursday to mark the last Thursday before the start of Lent. Xinhua/Jaap Arriens/Getty Images You might think you ve eaten a good pastry or two in your life, but you really haven t truly lived until you ve tried a pączek (plural: pączki, pronounced pawnch-kee or poonch-key ). This round Polish donut is a warm, fluffy treat associated closely with the pre-Lent religious holiday Fat Tuesday, or the Tuesday that falls before Ash Wednesday every year. And, let s face it Mardi Gras wouldn t be Mardi Gras without it.

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