Fat Thursday is a Polish tradition held on the last Thursday before Lent. It involves the massive consumption of cakes, doughnuts, sweets, and other foods forbidden during Lent. Popular dishes served on this day include doughnuts filled with marmalade and faworki, which are French dough fingers covered in powdered sugar. Fat Thursday is traditionally a day of gluttony and overindulgence before the fasting period of Lent.

1. Fat Thursday
The last Thursday before
Lent
YUMMY!YUMMY!

2. Fat Thursday
( in Polish: Tłusty
czwartek)
It is a traditional Polish feast
marking the last Thursday
before Lent.
This year on 15th February.

3. It involves the massive
consumption of cakes
and doughnuts.
Traditionally it is a day of
gluttony and belly-worship.
People usually meet in their
homes or cafés with their
friends and relatives and eat
large amounts of doughnuts,
cakes, sweets, and other
meals forbidden during
Lent.

4. Popular Polish dishes
served on this day.
Among the most popular Polish
dishes served on that day are
doughnut filled with marmalade
and faworki. Faworki are French
dough fingers with a lot of powder
sugar.

5. A lot of calories...
Women have to be careful. They can put on weight easily.
Then they have to do a lot of exercises. But men also want to
be fit.

6. Authors:
Pupils from Primary School
in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland
under the supervision of
English teacher
Beata Lenartowicz

7. Authors:
Pupils from Primary School
in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland
under the supervision of
English teacher
Beata Lenartowicz