Ah, Krapfen. In short: a cream- or jelly-filled fried round of yeast dough, often decorated, consumed during Fasching, the lead-up to Ash Wednesday. You may hear infidels call them Pfannkuchen (pancakes…wtf?) or Berliner (lol), but this is wrong. In Oberbayern you will be ridiculed and deservedly so.
In previous years I have gone on quests to collect Krapfen from every bakery in walking distance, to rate all the chocolate ones to determine who makes the best, and to accumulate a maximum number of flavors. This year I wasn’t going to make a fuss, but a Munich bakery chain opened a store next to Mr Radish’s office, and he joined their Krapfen Of The Week Club. Then he tried the flavor of the week from the chain bakery in front of the supermarket. Then we started panic-buying, because the season is so short this year…
So here, in chronological order, I present to you the 2024 Tour De Krapfen. There are bears in every picture because the Tour is well-liked by Stuffie Twitter.
December
January
February
And now it’s over.
Don’t think of it as “giving up” sugar for Lent, think of it as giving your pancreas a well-deserved rest.
One comment on “Tour de Krapfen 2024”