Published March 12. 2019 12:00AM
For years Valley Farm Market has done a big business selling fastnachts on the days preceding Lent, and this year was no exception.
Anticipating that they would not be eating sweets during the fourty days of Lent, people poured in to purchase a last treat - luscious doughnuts, also known as fastnachts.
Customers could choose plain, powdered, glazed, or those with granulated sugar. And pick they did - among the roughly 2,000 fastnachts sold. By 10:30 a.m on Tuesday, the day before Lent began, the fastnachts shelves were emptying rapidly.
Allan Johnson, who calls himself an “impulse” shopper, didn't plan to buy fastnachts, but when he walked into the store, he smelled them baking and grabbed a bag of “powdered.” Copyright -
