A Fat Tuesday Hot Dog Paczki? Seriously? Only in Detroit!

People will be lining up tomorrow at bakeries and grocery stores everywhere to load up on Paczki's. After all, tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, just before Lent, so it's time to gobble up all the delicious gut buster Paczki's you can grab.

But there is one paczki that we don't have in West Michigan. You can only get it in Detroit, and only at the famous American Coney Island, which is certainly is not a bakery.

American Coney Island first opened in 1917 under Greek immigrant Constantine "Gust" Keros and has been around ever since.

If you know Detroit, you know there is keen competition in the hot dog business, especially since it's right next door.

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Seems that "Gust's" brother wanted his own business in 1924, so he opened his own hot dog stand. Where? Next door to American Coney, of course!

Since the stores were on Lafayette Street, he called his Lafayette Coney Island, and the rest is history.

Many years passed and American Coney wanted to create an eye popping promotion, so, with the huge Polish population of Detroit, they came up with a doozy.

WELCOME THE HOT DOG PACZKI!

It has all the traditional Detroit dog fixings, Coney sauce, mustard and onions.

What's not to like?

We all love the traditional paczki with prune, strawberry, Bavarian cream, blueberry, custard, raspberry, and apple to name a few. They are also dusted with powdered sugar or glazed. But, with a hot dog?

This deep fried hunk of dough has been known in Poland since at least the middle ages, and has become an American and Canadian Fat Tuesday habit. With Lent beginning the next day, Ash Wednesday, tradition is to load up and use all the fat goodness in the cupboard.

But, with a hot dog?

I guess, why not. It is that good old hot dog, with all the Michigan fixings tucked into a glazed paczki. No filling, thank goodness.

We're talking yummy health here!