The second annual Salem paczki eating contest will be held tonight at Cafe Polonia on Washington Street. Proceeds will benefit the local Boys and Girls Club.
A handful of area residents will skip lunch today and meet at Cafe Polonia tonight to take part in a no holds barred paczki-eating pig-out in support of the city's Boys and Girls Club. In recognition of Fat Tuesday 2013, Cafe Polonia and Coffee Time Bake Shop will host their second annual Paczki eating contest tonight at 6:30 p.m. The event will once again be a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of Salem. Click the video attached to this post for a look at some of last year's brave competitors. Prizes include $100 in cash as well as gift certificates to Cafe Polonia, Coffee Time Bake Shop and Mud Puddle Toys for the kids category. Paczki, pronounced (poonch-kee) are traditional Polish doughnuts consumed on Fat Tuesday, the day before …
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The seasonal Polish treats are back on the menu at Salem's Coffee Time Bake Shop.
When an employee at Coffee Time Bake Shop accidentally added three extra zeroes to a sign that was meant to suggest that the shop's paczkis had a million calories, Robert Liani Jr. didn't bother fixing it. After all, the customers lining up to order these round, sugar-coated, fruit-filled Polish pastries may as well prepare themselves to burn off a billion calories. Liani Jr., the shop's President, was happy to report Monday afternoon that paczkis were added back to the menu a little earlier this year. Typically, the shop wouldn't begin selling the pastries until February, but since Easter comes early this year (March 31), the shop started cranking out the paczkis on Jan. 19. "We used to only sell them on Fat Tuesday, but then we'd have …
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jjm10100
7:38 am on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
I come from a polish family and grew up eating them. Nothing can beat a homemade paczki, they are to die for. more ›