For some area bakeries, Fat Tuesday can be busier than Christmas.
It's all because of the annual mad rush for those fruit, custard and jelly-filled fried balls of dough called paczki.
"People just love them," said Sheryl North, a cake decorator at the Meijer store in Fort Gratiot. "So do I."
North said the store has been stocking boxes of paczki for about a month. In that time, she added, she already has bought three or four packages of six.
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