paczek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paczki
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish pączek, diminutive of pąk (“bud”). Doublet of ponchik.
Senses: examples: text: Ricky Kauffman, 2, of Hamtramck wolfs down a paczek at the New Deluxe Polish Bakery in Hamtramck on Tuesday. Paczki are a tasty tradition in metro Detroit.
ref: 2007 February 21, “Lent begins today: Fat, then fast”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 176, number 293, Detroit, Mich., page 1A:
text: A paczek, as one of the pastries is called, can contain up to 700 calories.
ref: 2016, Edward McClelland, “[Michigan] Paczki Day”, in How to Speak Midwestern, Cleveland, Oh.: Belt Publishing, →ISBN, page 96:
text: When tasting, Forsyth also recommends following with a bite of a paczek.
ref: 2020 February 22, Susan Selasky, “You can buy Detroit distillery’s paczki vodka”, in Lansing State Journal, volume 165, number 294, Lansing, Mich., page 1C, column 4:
text: A paczek is a sweet pastry, a filled doughnut but with the volume turned up to 11.
ref: 2020 February 23, Paul Srubas, “Poonch-key? Pawnch-key? However you say ‘paczki,’ the traditional Fat Tuesday pastry sounds delicious”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 101, number 35, Appleton, Wis., page 7A, column 1:
text: Those fillings include traditional prune, or “plum butter” as the bakery more appetizingly calls it. It’s still the bakery’s most popular because of the “childhood nostalgia” — it’s the paczek everybody remembers eating as kids, he [Bartlomiej Kolatek] said.
ref: 2020 February 26, RNS, “Before Lent begins, Paczki Day brings Chicagoans together”, in The Taylorville Daily Breeze Courier, volume 126, number 244, Taylorville, Ill., page 3, column 2:
text: Each paczek is $2.50, or a half-dozen is $13.50 and a dozen costs $24.
ref: 2021 February 13, Bryce Airgood, “Where to find paczki in St. Clair County”, in Times Herald, Port Huron, Mich., page 1A, column 1:
text: Paczki from Yummies Donuts — here with an apple-filled paczek revealing its fruity goodness.
ref: 2022 February 21, Sue Wade, “Commentary: Are they there yet? Fat Tuesday treats and new openings”, in The Daily Sun, volume 130, number 52, Port Charlotte, Fla., page 8C:
text: The calories in one paczek vary depending on the type of filling but each contains about 425 calories on average. / Come Fat Tuesday, customers have high expectations that the paczki will be every bit the indulgence they are meant to be, he [Andrew Gauthier] said.
ref: 2022 March 1, Rachel Greco, “Paczki are big business for local bakeries: Thousands of freshly baked pastries ready for Fat Tuesday”, in Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, volume 177, number 51, Howell, Mich., page 5A, column 1:
text: Corey Bennett was among those lined up about 40-deep outside Blak’s Tuesday afternoon, waiting to try his first paczek ever.
ref: 2022 March 2, Trevor Wilhelm, “Sweetest of traditions: thousands of doughnuts consumed on Paczki Day”, in Windsor Star, Windsor, Ont., page A3, column 2:
text: In Ottawa he […] was the longest serving Polish church custodian for 22 years (where he was known as the coffee and paczek man on Sundays).
ref: 2022 April 4, Arbor Memorial, “[Obituaries] PALUCH, Jerzy Ignacy”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page NP5:
text: For Fat Tuesday only, Manderfield’s will offer a flattened “flying saucer” paczek that is thin with a crispy texture.
ref: 2023 February 15, Jeff Bollier, “Where to get your paws on paczki”, in Herald Times Reporter, volume 53, number 39, Manitowoc, Wis., page 10A, column 1:
text: Customers can pre-order a four pack of paczki for pick-up Saturday, Feb. 17 from 9 a.m.–2 p.m. at Pasture and Plenty. Each order will contain one dark chocolate custard, one bourbon vanilla bean custard, one raspberry currant and one brandied plum paczek.
ref: 2024 February 14, Nicole Haase, “Let the good times roll: Where to find Mardi Gras treats, from king cake to paczki”, in The Cap Times, Madison, Wis., page 37, column 3:
glosses: singular of paczki