# @plusjames on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B7clx9JlECZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20819051-plusjames-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-01-18T03:57:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** James Ramos (@plusjames) — https://gondola.cc/plusjames

## Caption

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. I said thank you in my humble Polish (I know four phrases: Where is the bathroom, where is the church, Is this sparkling water, and please and thank you) and she beamed as she pinched my cheek. 
It kinda hurt, but for some pączki, I’ll take it!
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Have you had pączki before? Mmm...

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## Tags

mardigras, houston, polish, pączki

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