# Fat Tuesday/Pancake Day/Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday Treats **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922 "2015-02-17T16:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/21 "2015-02-19T01:21:16Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The traditional plum-based ones are not prune jam (although it’s sometimes [mis]translated as such.) It’s _powidla_, which is made from stewed Damson plums and sugar, and more properly translated as “plum butter.” what can I say, I’m only half Slavic. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/22 "2015-02-19T01:34:00Z")
Actually, since it’s the SDMB, it’s fully _powidła śliwkowe_, which specifies it being plum, as it can be made with other fruits (although in Poland, it is typically plums and even the Polish bakeries around here simply say “powidła” for the plum pączki.) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/23 "2015-02-19T01:44:34Z")
We here in Central NY State love our fried fish (mostly haddock) all year round. Every single Friday the Fish Coves are jumping. Now that it’s Lent, there will be a 20 minute wait, we will be lined up crammed into the fish places and leave reeking of fried haddock . Can’t wait! I tried making King Cake two, three times from scratch. It came out bland and bready, like a big sweet roll. It was OK, but nothing to write home about. There must be superior examples out there. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/24 "2015-02-19T01:47:46Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > You have to get up and out early to get them sometimes. My mom went out to get ours this year around 9 AM and said there was slim’ pickins. I wanted a marshmellow one but only got fruit. Oh well. Hehe if you were around Detroit, that’s probably the fault of my work. Most years a few people bring in some, which ends up being enough for everybody to have 1 or two. Last year through some statistical coincidence nobody brought any and there was no joy in Mudville ☹ This year pretty much everybody independently decided to make sure that didn’t happen again. We had, by my estimate, 14 dozen for my floor of 25 people :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/25 "2015-02-19T01:56:13Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > what can I say, I’m only half Slavic. Pity. That means you can only half-enjoy paczki 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/26 "2015-02-19T15:12:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **August West** : > > I would venture that 95% of restaurants in Wisconsin offer a Friday fish fry year-round. Oh, restaurants. Yeah, plenty of restaurants around here have fish as their Friday daily special. But it’s not a fish fry unless it’s served in a church basement, or maybe a high-school cafeteria, by volunteers doing fund-raising. Totally different things. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/27 "2015-02-19T15:41:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Oh, restaurants. Yeah, plenty of restaurants around here have fish as their Friday daily special. But it’s not a fish fry unless it’s served in a church basement, or maybe a high-school cafeteria, by volunteers doing fund-raising. Totally different things. Fair point. Same pattern here, church basement fish fries are usually Lent-only. Our local volunteer fire department does them quarterly, some of the best fried fish I’ve ever had, but the selection of home-made pies is really what draws me in! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922/28 "2015-02-19T18:48:17Z")
So those shrimp po’boys… We had enough shrimp for 2½ sandwiches. We each had one sandwich for dinner, and I toasted a five-inch section of baguette and made a po’boy for Wednesday’s lunch (with some leftover jambalaya, too). It was good cold! 🙂 Since I was in Seattle yesterday, I went back to Metropolitan Market and got three more muffalettas. We each had one, heated in the toaster oven, for dinner last night. There’s one more that I’m going to have for lunch today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-tuesday-pancake-day-mardi-gras-shrove-tuesday-treats/712922.md?page=1)