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Great things Czech:

Beer:


Kolaches (yes, these are Kolbaznek really):


Polka:


Hotties:

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Almost forgot!

Firearms:
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MouthBQ98
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Sorry, had to brag a little.
fido98
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I married a 100% Czech hottie
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I had a neighbor in Houston that showed me some old LP's of Bob Wills and his band singing in Czech. The vinyl was about 3/16" thick. He played one for me to prove that Bob Wills really did record music in Czech.
AGaddy
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what happened to the picture of the hottie
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That gun looks better in dualtone and you can kill stuff bigger than rats if you'd get it in .40
Apache
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Shiner is a Czech beer? I know the town is majority Czech, but Spoetzl was a Kraut, right?
MouthBQ98
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I think he was Bavarian, possibly. Most of the town is Moravian with some Bohemian. Same general culture. I can guarantee you Spoetzl brewed for his Czech customers.
Ag83
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Those aren't kolaches. These are kolaches (I'm half Czech and my 100% Czech grandmother used to make them all the time for us)...
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It might have been Bob Wills, but Adolph Hofner was also a popular country & western music singer in the late 30s and 40's, and he and Wills sing and sound very much alike. Hofner went back to his Czech roots in the late 40s and started remaking traditional czech polkas alongside more contemporary western swing music at the time, but with country instrumentation. Who knows? Bob Wills might have also sung some in Czech, but you could have been listening to Adolph Hofner.

That hottie is Denise Milani, a Czech immigrant. (No enhancement, either).

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Ag83, you nailed me there. Kolaches are actually fruit or sweet filled pastries, with a liberal dose of sugar. My favorite is the poppyseed ones, with peach a close second. My mom's side of the family has been making them for generations (Patek/Holub). I just posted what most people expect to see.

I forget the Czech word for "pig in a blanket". The Poles make those, too.

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FYI, has anyone found the 100 year beer out yet?
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Good things Czech: My mom


The first picture of 'kolaches' are not kolaches. Kolaches have fruit or cheese (cottage or cream). The best I've bought are from Weikel's in LaGrange or Hruska's in Ellinger. The best I've had are from my Grandma's kitchen. Luckily my mom followed in Grandma's footsteps and picked up the art of making kolaches. I've tried, but I still need her help. The best part...mom's utensil of choice when making the dough is a small hatchet handle. She's broken too many wooden spoons so she now uses an an handle!

If you're ever near LaGrange, make a trip to Weikel's or Hruska's.







Then of course there's the Czech Stop in West.




MouthBQ98
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I get it! I get it! (I know that, but I wasn't expecting most non Czechs to draw the distinction.) But yeah, my mom and aunts can make still make kolaches like my grandma and greatgrandmas used to. They make pig in a blankets with the same dough. It is very thick and gooey. Most chain places use some crappy roll dough that just doesn't come out heavy and moist like it is supposed to. Then again, my family were butchers, farmers and musicians, not so much bakers.

When I was a kid, my grandma had me wash down my feet really really really well, then she made me stomp sliced cabbage in a 5 gallon bucket of vinegar and salt into sauerkraut...

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Mmmmmm....sauerkraut
Fishing Fools
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Baby makers.


Large Buoobs.


Only cooks from scratch.


Hardheaded. .




IrishFishermen
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First off...i love this topic.

My moms side of the family is all czech. My grandma and her 11 brothers and sisters were the first of the family line born in texas as thier parents (my great grand parents)immigrated in the early 1900s They bought a farm in damon of some large amount, had all the kids to help farm them. My grandma, who probably never weighed more than 110 pounds in her life told me stories about carrying 100 pound bags of cotton all over the place, sharecropping and tough times. Unfortunately i didnt get to see much of this or meet some of her brothers and sisters as 4 passed before I was born.

I was actually thinking about how much I love my heritage today as i got donw with a duck hunt near the san benard wildlife reguge and drove out to damon to scout for some geese/cranes. Of all the land they used to own only about 50 acres or so is huntable but its fun to give it a ride anyways. I saw about 2k geese, obviously im guessing numbers, accross the road from my aunt's place where i hunt and it was enough to convince me. Then i went into the house and said hello to my aunt where i could barely here myself think because she had some polka music roaring on the radio. Walked outside and saw a cousin of mine drinking a busch light (warm) at 11:00am. I actually witnessed another cousin who runs a saw mill in damon receive a cold beer and place it in his armpit to warm it up once.

I talked to my mom about her childhood out there for a good hour today, turns out alot of the people who own land out there near the old farmland used to play with her when they were kids. Really cool stuff but i could go on all night and i gotta early goose hunt planned now and wont go into to much detail. Anyone have family in the Damon area?

Ag83: I agree 100% with you, those are kolaches. Another czech buddy from college used to call the "kolaches" donut shops sell "killakolache".

Twix: Weikels is the first stop as soon as we get to la grange before heading to the cabin for a weekend. Hruska's is a stop everytime i travel to and from Austin and sometimes before and after I go to La Grange. Those are the only two places I puchase pastries at.

My grandma never really got into kolaches but one of my great aunts used to make them about once a week when i was growing up. My favorite's were the creamcheese ones, or the cherry with creamcheese.

I think i may be going to la grange next weekend now. damn this addiction to texags now caused me to follow another addiction to kolaches.

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100% czech here!

When I sober up I'll have to post something more meaningfull...
TexasRebel
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Me
jpb1999
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O.K. here is one... poppyseed kolaches cannot be beat... next is creamcheese. All the other fruity ones are great for the kids and taste good, but don't compare.

Dang I am hungry....
Kenner
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You czechs are making the rest of us hungry.
I am the Aggman
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Czech out the fun-bags on that hose hound!!

Whoop coo ca choo
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As someone who grew up in La Grange and visited Weikel's and Hruska's throughout my life.... I APPROVE THIS THREAD!
wadd96
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You bastages have made me hungry for what does not exist in Yancey... OR Hondo...
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Twix
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Wadd, if you're in Hondo, stick with what they know...breakfast tacos!
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I am not Czech but I am 1/2 Ukrainian. Not too far distant. The other 1/2 Irish. My Ukrainian grandmother always made galumpgies and pierogies. Do the Czechs eat those?
DeerHunter
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mmmm... Grandma's strudel.
jpb1999
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quote:
galumpgies and pierogies


I have never heard of those... not at all czech.
Cen-Tex
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Kolaches have a long history. The Slavs (Czechs) originally used the design to honor their pagan sun god. The round fruit pastry in the center represented the sun. Around the year 880 Saints Cyril & Methodius are given credit for bring Christianity to the area, so you can judge how long kolaches have been in existence. By the way, the word kolache is plural...one kolache is called a koláè or kolach. When I was in the Czech Republic last year, you could buy a kolach the size of a 12" pizza and sold by the slice.

A couple of shops that make great kolaches & pigs the way grandma made them is Lukas Bakery on the square in La Grange. They've been doing this since after WW2.
The other is Kountry Bakery at I-10 & Hwy 77 in Schulenburng. Dobre Smakuje'
 
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