{"id":691,"date":"2012-02-16T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2012-02-16T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:44:02","slug":"fat-thursday-tlusty-czwartek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Fat Thursday (T\u0142usty Czwartek)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Fat Thursday in Poland (<em>T\u0142usty Czwartek <\/em>in Polish). On this day, traditionally, people and shops make and eat p\u0105czki, Polish Donuts that are yeast dough and deep fried in fat. They are yummy. When I was young, I remember my mother making p\u0105czki each year, though in America we traditionally celebrated Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about <em>T\u0142usty Czwartek <\/em>here: http:\/\/easteuropeanfood.about.com\/od\/holidaysfestivals\/a\/paczkiday.htm. However, I here is the pertinent part:<\/p>\n<p>In Poland, p\u0105czki are eaten on Fat Thursday or T\u0142usty Czwartek. The last six days of carnival season (karnawal) &#8212; from T\u0142usty Cwartek to Shrove Tuesday &#8212; are known as zapusty. Shrove Tuesday is known as \u015aledzi\u00f3wka or Herring Day when herring are eaten instead of p\u0105czki. Shrove Tuesday is also known as Ostatki, which literally means &#8220;lasts,&#8221; and refers to the last day to party hearty before Lent begins. The start of Carnival season is usually on Twelfth Night or Epiphany, Jan. 6. The traditional Polish way to celebrate Carnival is with a kulig, a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the snow and a hearty outdoor meal like bigos cooked over an open fire. Things are changing, however, and bar-hopping is taking the place of kuligs.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Fat Thursday in Poland (T\u0142usty Czwartek in Polish). On this day, traditionally, people and shops make and eat p\u0105czki, Polish Donuts that are yeast dough and deep fried in fat. They are yummy. When I was young, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/?p=691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poland.leonkonieczny.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}