By Laura DeMarco, The Plain Dealer

“In recent years, Rudy’s (5580 Ridge Road; 440-886-4430) has become Paczki Central on Fat Tuesday, with crowds lining out the door into the frigid winter morning beginning at 4 a.m.

After all, for the rest of the world Tuesday is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday. In strongly Polish Cleveland, though, this is Paczki Day — the day when hundreds line up at Polish bakeries to have one last hurrah in the form of a paczki (pronounced PUNCH-ki), a deep-fried, filled Polish pre-Lenten doughnuts.”

Full article at: http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/02/paczki_day_celebrated_with_hou.html