I grew up in Chicago. While my southside neighborhood was home to many Poles, it was predominantly Irish. But Chicago was certainly a favorite destination of Polish immigrants. So too, Detroit, particularly Hamtramck, which is a city within the Detroit city limits that was once almost 100% first-generation Polish and remains predominantly Polish. The Hamtramck bakeries provide most of the Paczkis consumed on on the last day before lent. The city is is also home to a number of great and inexpensive Polish restaurants. While the paczki has polish roots, I think it's importance was magnified by the Detroit-area Polish community. I don't recall ever seeing one during my 31 years in Chicago. The closest thing to a paczki that I can recall were the jelly bismarcks that were sold at Steffen's Bakery on 84th and Stony Island. Paul On Mar 8, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
> Yesterday was Kasmir Pulaski day here in Chicago. > Many schools had the day off. Chicago is a Polish city. > And I heard President Obama made him a citizen (only a couple of > hundred years late). > Not too bad for a Polish calvary officer who died at 34 helping our > revolution. > Regards, Bob Sullivan (My grandma said my better half was the Polish half.) > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> It's Paczki Day in Detroit. A phone pic of my breakfast: >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12791453&size=lg >> >> >> I'm not going to eat another one. >> I'm not going to eat another one. >> I'm not going to eat another one. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
