There aren’t many places where you’d find a picture of a pope behind the deli counter, but here at the #Polish Food Store in #Houston St. John Paul II keeps watch over the Polish groceries at this hidden Houston gem. King cake during #MardiGras is great, but the tender filling inside the delicious pączki, a kind of donut pastry, is all I can think about right now. Filled with cream or a jam, then doused with sprinkles... (or not) and I’ll take a dozen. The Thursday before Fat Tuesday is also called Pączki Day, which is definitely a day of the week I can support... That day I visited the store on Fat Tuesday, the deli worker, who I called the Pączki Wizard, was busy doling out the pockets of joy to Polish people of all ages. An older Polish lady asked me if I liked pączki (admittedly I’m not the expected demographic for this store) to which I replied, “Who doesn’t like pączki?!” Right answer, she said as she handed me one of the three boxes of #pączki she was carrying out of the store....