Fat Thursday (German Fetter Donnerstag, Schmotziger Donnerstag, Polish Tlusty czwartek) is a traditional Polish and German feast marking the last Thursday before Lent.
The literal translation of the French term Mardi Gras is Fat Tuesday, but in Poland we celebrate also the last Thursday before Lent.
On this day people eat big quantities of delicious large Polish doughnuts (they are bigger than a fist) that are usually filled with rose jelly.
Some 100 million doughnuts are usually eaten in the country, which makes more than three doughnuts per average Pole.
The last six days of carnival season (karnawal) - from Fat Thursday to Shrove Tuesday - are known as time for celebrating eating, going to parties and dancing.

http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/126520,Poland-celebrates-Fat-Thursday

For February challenge 2013 Seeing Red.