Texas Heritage

[deemus]

As long as there no Czechoslovakia blood in it. You're good.

For some reason I never understood. German Texans and Czech Texans did not like each other.

They love each other in West. And hate everyone who ain't them.

 

[grasshopperglock]

They love each other in West. And hate everyone who ain't them.

Phucking Czech. Clanish guys with these sausages in a biscuit.

I know you eat pickles. I eat those sausages.

 

[Moonpie]

You can have my kolache when you pry it from my cold dead fingers you bloody Bohemian.

 

[digger]

Is that bakery still there on the hwy?? Haven't been thru there in a long time...used to make it a side trip no matter my direction!!

 

[grasshopperglock]

Yes. There's also one on the back side of Temple. In Westphalia. Full deal kitchen. Old school stuff too. Like particles of pork floating in this translucent fat brick. Chilled. Sold by the slice.

I can't remember the name. I guess you guys put in on bread because my dog wouldn't eat it. No joke. Would not eat it. This was after I took I bite and thought I'd eat anything.

I can't remember the Damn name.

 

[digger]

Head cheese...not a fan either but my wife is from TN/VA and you see a lot of it there. I have become a fan of country ham from that area

 

[grasshopperglock]

Head cheese...not a fan either but my wife is from TN/VA and you see a lot of it there. I have become a fan of country ham from that area

That's it. Chunks of pork floating in a jello looking substance. I'd try it again. Maybe me taste have changed.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Curse you guys! You have to talk about head cheese and kolaches! I'm hungry now and don't know where to get those!!!

On another note, I need to get a beef roast to make official German sauerbraten for Christmas. Time is short, as it requires 21 days of brining.

On another note, I used to date, in fact lived with a Czechoslovakian, I used to pick on her when we went out to eat. Ummm, sorry babe, you'll have to wait in the car, sign on the door says "No Checks".

 

[grasshopperglock]

I've never been to the one on I35. Only Westphalia. Always thought the place in West was a tourist trap.

 

[robertc1024]

Damn near any food from Germany I'll eat and be happy. they like their meat. Schweinehaxe with some Knodel. (pork knuckles and dumplings) Yummm.

 

[grasshopperglock]

I've related to pickles and sauerkraut. Something commonly called 'Gorken salad'. (Gurkensalat)


Here's a recipe. Sweetened condensed milk works with too. Soak the cucumber slices in the condensed milk. Fresh dill or the dried stuff.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/221075/gurkensalat-german-cucumber-salad/

 

[busykngt]

I've never been to the one on I35. Only Westphalia. Always thought the place in West was a tourist trap.

The shop that faces directly out onto I-35 is a bit “touristy” but there’s another shop on a side street that’s runs perpendicular to I-35 were locals stop. Either place will take care of your kolache fix.

The wife usually drags me down to “the German store” once a month (combination grocery store / restaurant) just off the SMU campus. She loves the dark bricks of German bread (texture of a compressed sawdust block).

 

[Moonpie]

Mother used to make this horrible gruel called Kraut&Pork.
Basically its was saurkraut and pork meat boiled like a stew. She loved the stuff. Claimed it was an authentic Old World recipe from way back in the family.
To me it tasted like glue with glumps of goo in it.
Bleeech. It still makes me hurl just thinking about it.

 

[benenglish]

Damn near any food from Germany I'll eat and be happy.

I don't have sufficient experience to say that but there used to be a German beer hall type place just across the river from Cincinnati that I loved. I used to eat there a lot during my frequent business trips to Cincinnati. I really got to where I liked that town and that's something I never thought I'd say about any place in Ohio.

 

[MetalCutter]

I don't have sufficient experience to say that but there used to be a German beer hall type place just across the river from Cincinnati that I loved. I used to eat there a lot during my frequent business trips to Cincinnati. I really got to where I liked that town and that's something I never thought I'd say about any place in Ohio.

Don't worry Ben, if it was across the river from Cincinnati it was Kentucky!

 

[benenglish]

Don't worry Ben, if it was across the river from Cincinnati it was Kentucky!

Yeah, I know. But that strip just across the river is basically an extension of Cincinnati set up for tourists. I've walked down further into that town many times. There were weird strip clubs, homeless all over the place, and one of the strangest gun stores I've ever seen. The gun store had about 100 square feet, at most, for customers to stand around, completely hemmed in by low glass display cases. Behind the display cases were tables with machine shop equipment and stacks and stacks of rifles and parts everywhere for at least 75 feet to the back wall. It was a complete mess with parts, old guns, paperwork and other detritus stacked (and I'm being properly literal about this) 4 feet high in some places. It looked like some old gunsmith had been stacking up every spare part and project he'd ever thought about since 1935.

You might like this - they had a pistol bolt action in the display case missing the guts of the bolt. It was from that company that went out of business when their assets were seized by the ATF. (It's been so long I can't remember the name.) Anyway, they wanted $900 for a non-functional action for which no parts would ever become available.

Like I said, one of the strangest gun stores I've ever entered.

 

[Davetex]

If you like German food, stop by Walburg (northeast of Georgetown). They have the German food.

 

[Davetex]

 

[Davetex]

Good times

 

[deemus]

Is that bakery still there on the hwy?? Haven't been thru there in a long time...used to make it a side trip no matter my direction!!

Czech Stop is still there. But across the highway is Slovaceks. Great meats and better kalaches. I never go to Czech Stop anymore. But the best kolaches are downtown at Geriks or the Village bakery.