Fat Tuesday Celebrated Around the World
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- If we're talking Fat Tuesday, you might as well go all out, right? 12 high school students from West Catholic, Comstock Park, and Kenowa Hills high schools think so.
The annual paczki-eating contest at Plumb's grocery store in Alpine Township forced them to shove in five paczik in five minutes -- or at least try to.
"I just ate the outside because I didn't like the cream, then watered it down," said Rene' Salazar of Kenowa Hills.
"I feel on top of my game. I was taking it seriously at first, then I started slowing down when I got down to the last couple of them," said Nick Walters of West Catholic.
The annual paczki-eating contest at Plumb's grocery store in Alpine Township forced them to shove in five paczik in five minutes -- or at least try to.
"I just ate the outside because I didn't like the cream, then watered it down," said Rene' Salazar of Kenowa Hills.
"I feel on top of my game. I was taking it seriously at first, then I started slowing down when I got down to the last couple of them," said Nick Walters of West Catholic.
From sequin-drenched samba parades in Rio de Janeiro to cascades of Mardi Gras beads on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Health, revelers gathered to dance until dawn at Fat Tuesday celebrations. The Roman Catholic period of Lent begins on Wednesday and Fat Tuesday marks the end of the carnival festivities that lead to the sole
