WARSAW, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Poles fashioned lengthy queues to purchase doughnuts on their “Fats Thursday”, piling in for the sugary treats though double-digit inflation has taken a chunk out of their revenue.
On the final Thursday earlier than Lent, the interval when Christians historically quick earlier than Easter, Poles stuff their faces with doughnuts in a pageant of calorific indulgence.
However with the price of elements 20-30% increased than a yr in the past in response to financial institution BNP Paribas, hungry customers in Warsaw needed to fork out extra for his or her favorite deep-fried delicacies.
“Final Fats Thursday, doughnuts value 3.50 zlotys ($0.78) every,” mentioned Syliwa Tomaszkiewicz, 45, proprietor of the Zagozdzinski Confectionery Workshop. “In August, we needed to elevate it by as a lot as 1 zloty.”
[1/3] Doughnuts are displayed throughout Fats Thursday, conventional celebrations when Poles eat doughnuts marking the final Thursday earlier than the beginning of Lent, at a bakery in Warsaw, Poland February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
However, the queue outdoors Tomaszkiewicz’s store stretched for lots of of metres on Thursday.
“Watching this queue I take into consideration two hours,” mentioned 25-year-old scholar Dominika Maria when requested how lengthy she anticipated to attend.
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For 73-year-old pensioner Jadwiga Staniewska, it was necessary to maintain the custom of Fats Thursday alive.
“It is actually good, as a result of younger folks hold this custom going,” she mentioned. “So I prefer it very, very a lot… as a result of though at the moment isn’t the warmest day, they endure it.”
($1 = 4.4851 zlotys)
Reporting by Kuba Stezycki, writing by Alan Charlish, modifying by Mark Heinrich
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