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Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


-t - Mar 04, 2014 6:42:16 am PST #21392 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Donut shops are supposed to be open at or before the crack of dawn.

This what I'm saying! Today the crack of dawn was only 20 minutes before I started work, but still.


SuziQ - Mar 04, 2014 6:43:33 am PST #21393 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Just got a message that there is king cake in the kitchen. In the office in Albequerque. Surprisingly only one person has replied-all that it would be a bit of a hike to get there.

We had paczkis on Sunday, but I still have NO idea how to pronouce it correctly.


Steph L. - Mar 04, 2014 6:59:03 am PST #21394 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

We had paczkis on Sunday, but I still have NO idea how to pronouce it correctly.

Poonch-key. (I have also heard punch-key, but my Polish grandma always said poonch-key, so that's my official ruling.)


SuziQ - Mar 04, 2014 7:10:53 am PST #21395 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Thanks Teppy.

CJ doesn't have to be at school until noon today and tomorrow. Arrrrggggg. It is messing with my ability to concentrate on work.


Zenkitty - Mar 04, 2014 7:15:59 am PST #21396 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Poonch-key

But there is no n in paczki. I'll never remember.


sumi - Mar 04, 2014 7:16:45 am PST #21397 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

We have a Polish woman on staff. Not as an official Pole but as an accountant.

She doesn't think that this sort of Paczki is very authentic. She doesn't think that the pazcki that are made by a local specialist bakery are very authentic either. (She is picky.)

But - I think it says something about the high population of Poles in Chicago and vicinity that you can get paczky at the local Jewel not in a specialty store.

We used to have a cookie/coffee shop where you could get kolachky.


flea - Mar 04, 2014 7:21:22 am PST #21398 of 30000
information libertarian

I could run down to the Graeter's or Servatii on Fountain Square and look for paczki. But it's like 20 degrees. And they are not my tradition (or mr. flea's even though he is super-Polish wrt New Year's.)


-t - Mar 04, 2014 7:27:50 am PST #21399 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Blinis should be my tradition, but I don't really like them. I feel like I'm entitled to claim king cake, if not as my birthright.


Steph L. - Mar 04, 2014 7:28:14 am PST #21400 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I could run down to the Graeter's or Servatii on Fountain Square and look for paczki.

Oh my god, the cheese-filled ones from Graeter's are AMAZING. I was just too lazy to drive to Graeter's this morning, so I ran to the Bakery District* of Northside and got a couple of jelly-filled ones from Bonomini Bakery.

*(Bonomini Bakery has been on Blue Rock in Northside for 1,000 years, and recently Queen City Cookies moved in across the street from Bonomini, so we decided that 2 bakeries qualifies as a "district." The Bakery District is around the corner from the Taco District.)


Jesse - Mar 04, 2014 7:35:01 am PST #21401 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I guess my actual tradition is pancakes, because the church I grew up in would have a pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday, but in general, I don't observe. I don't do much if anything to observe Lent either, so that seems about right!