On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:38 -0500, "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Paczki? Jelly Bismarcks? Google here I come..... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > 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. > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- 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.
