what can I say, I’m only half Slavic.
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.)
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.
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:
Pity. That means you can only half-enjoy paczki 
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!
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.