Interesting. Although I lived the first sixty years of my life in New York City, I never heard of a pacski or a Bismarck. I'd call this a jelly doughnut.Mehrgan.
I Googled "Pączki images" and found a lot of delicious looking things that seem to be what I would call jam doughnuts with icing on top (sometimes with nuts or glacé fruit) – and I would like one right now.
I went back for another look and found a link to this, which might be helpful:
"Pączki (Polish: pączki) are traditional Polish doughnuts. Pączki is the plural form of the word pączek in Polish, but many English speakers use paczki as singular and paczkis as plural. A pączek is a deep-fried piece of dough shaped into a flattened sphere and filled with Plums or other sweet filling. A traditional filling is marmalade made from fried rose buds. Fresh paczki are usually covered with powdered sugar, icing or bits of fried orange zest."
It also says they are sometimes called Bismarcks in the US.
www.hamtramck.us/events/pages/paczki.php
not a teacher
Hi, Mehrgan.Hi,
Could anyone please tell me the right equivalent for this Polish word (Pączki )? (especially the ones with cream inside)
How is this pronounced in English?
Many thanks.
Fat Thursday, has evolved into a doughnut-eating day, with people consuming dozens of them.
There are competitions too I guess, but I have never seen one. We just eat lots of doughnuts then. However, even though I haven't seen a competition with judges, contestants with numbers and so on, I consider the whole day a bit of a countrywide competition. It's never brag-free.Do you mean competitions? We have paczki eating competitions* here. Do you have something similar?
*warning: might make you lose your appetite