I know it's Shipfest and all, but really, offering me sweet things, even under the pretense that you're offering it to everyone for a holiday? You're playing to the judge.

...now, this does not mean that I do not accept your sweet things. Because I do. I still have the biggest sweet tooth ever. The pączki are mine now. Nom.

In return, have the most completely Southern candy I could think of: Goo-Goo Clusters. Ahem:
"The Goo Goo Cluster is a southern treat made of caramel, marshmallow and peanuts, all covered with chocolate. They had their 100th birthday in 2012, and are available all over the state of Tennessee."
These are flipping delicious.

...what goes into those, exactly? As in, the filling? Because I'd swear those are sufganiot (jelly donuts in the English, don't ask *me*). We eat them around Chanukah, and they're absolutely the most delicious things around.

...mainly, though, I'm just really glad you have them, because *everyone* should get to try a good sufgania-or-something-similar-to-one.

(I'd hazard a guess as to whether pączki and berliner donuts are the same thing or not, but that Wikipedia sentence is...kind of ambiguous if you don't already know what it's talking about, and I'm not sure. Either way, I can confirm that sufganiot don't tend to be filled with rose marmalade: they're more likely to have jam of varying types and qualities, chocolate, caramel...all sorts of things. If you're ever in Israel around Chanukah, check out the bakeries--they have SO MANY TYPES. And that link is just from one bakery, too.)

Anyway. The sufgania as a cross-cultural thing? I am SO ON BOARD WITH THIS.

~Zing