The morning after

The paczki were half off at the Holiday today, but those elegant variations were still fetching the cover price at the morning fishwrap:

The folks at Lazybones Smokehouse thought so, putting a twist on the annual pre-Lenten paczki tradition by topping the deep-fried dough with sweetened maple bacon. This Fat Tuesday, like the previous four, workers have come in a bit earlier to prepare the sweet treat ahead of the store's opening.

By the way? Always read the morning paper before you start in to writing. That way, if one of your colleagues has declared "paczki" to be plural unto the end of time Amen in the Tuesday paper, you reduce the risk of sneaking the singular -- "a paczki" -- into your own story.