Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Fastnacht Day, Paczki Day

Today is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday or as I knew it growing up - Fastnacht Day. Before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and people give up rich foods, they use up those ingredients making pancakes or doughnuts. For the Pennsylvania Dutch those doughnuts are called fastnachts.

Aaron calls it Paczki Day. Paczki are Polish doughnuts. We found these paczki at a Wegmans in Pennsylvania. There was some info on the side of the box. Now I know how to pronounce the word paczki (Punch-key).

Hand cut: Ridge Donuts

I recently saw a conversation online comparing Fairport Donuts with Ridge Donuts. Aaron was disturbed that he had not tried either of these. Joel R. said Ridge is his favorite so we went there first.

It seems like the donut they are famous for is their handcut donut, so we each got one. It was the heaviest donut I've ever encountered. It seemed to weigh as much as three bagels.

It was good though. So good.

Guess who is using Instagram now. I swiped this pic from him.

Doughnut Love

Maybe it should be Valentine's Week.

I discovered some upsetting news last week. The last Krispy Kreme in Rochester closed it's doors.

No more hot doughnuts now. I don't know what happened and I am peeved that Buffalo got to keep one and we didn't.

Long time readers will remember seven years ago when I got up at 4 am to stand in line for the Krispy Kreme opening.

I am crushed. You can read more about it over at Rocha-chatter.