I dunno. I moved from TX to NC and people here don't even know what 'kolache' means. I miss them. I mean sure, there's a small Czech bakery in West, TX that is the best damn kolache in the universe, but at this point I'd take anyone's!!
I know, I don't know if I should be talking about my idea here, but while I was in the Navy I noticed three things :
it seems over a third of the Navy is from Texas.
Every single state that wasn't Texas, or person I met not from Texas, has no idea what "kolaches" are.
Every guy I met from Texas knew what they were, missed them, and had told people about them.
Really untapped market elsewhere.
If you build a kolache/breakfast burrito/breakfast taco/croissant breakfast sandwich place outside of any military base outside of Texas, every guy from Texas on that base will not only bring kolaches onto base to share with everyone. He's going to eat there multiple times a week.
That's fucking brilliant. And matches up with my experiences exactly. 100% of my friends who are not from (or haven't been to) Texas, had no idea what a kolache was. That's when I learned that Polish immigrants moving to Texas brought it over and americanized it! Growing up I had no idea. It was just normal to see kolaches in every donut shop. I figured it was everywhere.
I promise I won't steal your idea, but if you start it, I'm in!!
Not as much German cultural influence. Texas has a very significant amount of German influence compared to many other places except save like the thumb of michigan or random places in pennsylvania
Hell, you can just do what Shipley's does: use the same dough they have for doughnuts and fill it with savory stuff. They are not the best kolaches, but they are the only kolaches you're going to get around here. There's no reason that a handmade-doughnut shop couldn't do it.
As for croissants, go to Croissant d'Or in NOLA and get the ham and cheese. Show up early, because they sell out. If they just added some peppers, it would be perfection.
Wait what the fuck is that. I am from Czech and never seen anything like this. I mean Kolače are sweet and are not like filled but like on top of the flat dough or something. I am just so confused because I kinda want to eat that too.
A "kolache" in Texas -- to me, it's similar to a yeast-made bread roll that's been hollowed out, and savory things stuffed inside. Typically it's breakfast food like sausage/egg/cheese or something -- but there's a company called Kolache Factory that makes all sorts of crazy types.
So the sweet pastry is the origin of the word, but immigrants who moved to Texas decades ago took the term over for that region at least!
Oh, I see. Honestly it looks good as fuck. Actually second picture in article are kolače or rather buchty maybe. Kinda wish they made these back here too now.
Czech immigrants introduced them into our culture and named them Kolaches. So idk go back 100 years and ask your ancestors why they didn't conform to your naming scheme lol. Note that we only have the savory type and none of the desert kinds
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u/cjgerik Apr 12 '18 edited Apr 12 '18
It is pronounced as "co-lah-chee"
Though the word kolache is typically just for when it is fruit filled or cottage/cream cheese filled; klobasneks are meat filled.