Paczki Day is on February 17 this year, and they shouldn't even be in the grocery stores around here yet, but maybe they are. I'll find out whenever I get around to going. There used to be a place called Jablonski's Bakery that had all kinds of goodies including paczki, poppy seed rolls, and nut rolls year round. Now it's a cupcake shop. What a loss to the whole community. Like when Aldo's Italian bakery closed, there's no local alternative I know of. Aldo was born in Patrica, Italy, was married in Rome, Italy, and owned and operated Aldo's Italian Bakery here for over 50 years before he died. I don't know what happened to cause Jablonski's to close, but they used to supply paczki to one of the catholic churches for lent, and the most popular flavor was prune, my favorite. Try finding those in your average grocery store. Most of the time I'd rather have slices of poppy seed bread and butter warmed in the microwave than paczki. But If I got hold of some good prune paczki, I would eat them until I was sick.
I just finished off some Swiss Colony petit fours i got at Christmas, and they weren't very good. Before that I had Swiss & mushroom sausages.