Michigan

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/2/16/22285416/paczki-day-fat-tuesday-mardi-gras-bakeries
Like a knife through cake, the snowblower had cut a crisp channel through the 2-foot-high snowbank in front of Dobra Bielinkski’s bakery door.
Had there been a wall of ice blocking the way, Bielinski’s customers likely would have found a way in.

Customers flock to Delightful Pastries at the corner of Austin and Lawrence avenues every Fat Tuesday in search of her paczki, pouches of fried dough filled with reservoirs of rose petal jelly, custard — even Kentucky moonshine and lemon curd.

They came this Tuesday, albeit a bit more slowly. Knee-deep snow and impassable alleyways do that. By 7:30 a.m., 30 or so customers had trickled in. It’s usually four or five times that, Bielinski said

Bielinski was ready regardless. She got to her bakery at 4 a.m. She estimates she and her staff will make about 30,000 paczki between “Polish Fat Thursday and American Fat Tuesday,” she said

There are a lot of paczki places here too! Snow and ice will not stop hardcore P lovers today