I want to make clear to the US folks here that there's about 2 or 3 cafes that still sell traditional eels, and it's explicitly a London food, not wider British cuisine. From the number of videos and articles I see about them though, you'd think the country was covered in Eel cafés. Honestly, covering them at all is tabloid ragebait content at this point.
Had to look up what was in the article and it's more like something you'd find at a donut shop in the US, but not quite the same. Things like the klobasnek/kolache are popular here in Texas.
I've never been to Texas in my life, but I did live in Czechia for 9 years and my wife is Czech.
A Czech koláč is always sweet, with no exceptions. I Googled the foods you and the previous comment mention, and I've never seen anything like them. The Czechs do sometimes bake bread rolls with a sausage inside, though – they are very big on sausages – and they're sold cold in supermarkets and bakeries as a savoury snack. I think they're called variants on "bread roll with sausage", though, and I don't think I've ever heard them called "klobasnek" or "klobasnik".
Saying that, now we live in the British Isles, my wife has developed a fondness for sausage rolls. Including Gregg's ones when we visit the UK. :-)
>I've never been to Texas in my life...and I've never seen anything like them
"For decades, Czech Stop has been known far and wide for its world-famous Texas kolaches"[0]
You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" in your searching. Using "Texas" as a qualifier does big things. Texas BBQ or Texas chili is not the same thing as BBQ or chili from other places. Texas kolaches are not the same thing as Czech koláč, nor never claimed to be. At best, inspired by from Czech babis passing down and tweaking recipes since the 1800s
I didn't miss it. I wasn't talking about Texan food. I clearly said, and you quoted that I've never been to Texas in my life.
I was talking about the original stuff from the old country, that inspired this. Nothing else. I thought it might be a bit of fun, something of interest.
I should have realised that someone misunderstand and insult me. I mean, it's HN. :-(
Not sure where the supposed insult is. If one was read, there was none intended.
Since you're not familiar with Texas folklore, using the word Texas as a qualifier is part of being Texas. "Everything is bigger in Texas" is a common phrase. In golf, there's "Texas rules". In Texas BBQ, it's understood that if there's a fire in the box, there's a beer in the hand.
> I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.
Same, except it's just over 50 years for me.
This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediately remembered trips to Sayers bakeries with my mum when I was little, although as a little lad I was more interested in the cakes than the sausage rolls myself.
Something I really missed in a decade living in Czechia.
It's odd how in other countries it is mostly baked goods that have deep differences and leave whole much-loved categories missing. For me: pasties, mince pies, egg custard tarts, Jamaican-style patties.
The Slavs love this stuff called tvaroh: it's the curds that, given more work and time, can be made into cheese. It's a semisolid sour-tasting milky stuff. They put it in all kinds of foods, especially cakes and pastries. I first tasted it at 46 years old and I hate the stuff. Every visit to a bakery is a lottery: will it be all right, and maybe even good, or will it have tvaroh in it and taste like it was made with extract of very old gym sock?
I taught English for a while and many students wanted to know the English word for Tvaroh as it's not in the dictionary. I told them we don't eat it and so don't have a word for it. It blew their minds.
It is not cottage cheese. It is nothing even vaguely similar to lemon curd. It's sort of similar to cheese curd but you can't buy cheese curd, whereas every supermarket has a dozen types of tvaroh.
goddamnit, read for a solid 5 minutes until I realised the rest is paywalled, sigh. No pasty facts isn’t worth another subscription. I have many other interesting things to do
Pasties are pretty serious grub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty
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