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Happy Dyngus Day, everyone.

What’s Dyngus Day? Glad you asked. It’s a Polish holiday that a trio of west-side establishments is bringing to Cleveland, starting today.

Without doing any research, here’s what we imagine festivities on Dyngus Day involve: After 364 straight days of making pierogies, Polish grandmothers take a day off. They gather in a town square and watch while all the Polish men dance with plastic pink flamingos. When the dancing is done, a fire is built, and everyone claps while ceremonially burning all vowels except ‘I’ and ‘Y.’

Let’s double check our guess against the facts.

This article appears in Apr 20-26, 2011.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

2 replies on “New Polish Holiday Comes to Cleveland; Happy Dyngus Day, Everyone”

  1. Yes!! Finally a polish holiday 🙂 may I request the laughing polka? It was my favorite growing up… Grandpa would sit in the corner recliner read his paper and listen to the polkas every sunday with black cherry pipe tobacco… I can still smell it to this day!!

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