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On 9/18/2018 at 10:54 PM, RollLeft said:

Menchaca is Manchak.  Guadalupe is Gwadaloop.  Klobasnek is Kolache.  Texans don't want to be bothered with the particulars.  

.... and Lavaca is The Cow.

On 8/31/2018 at 11:46 AM, kevwun said:

He's talking about Lukas Bakery.  It's not as easy to get to as Hruska's or Weikel's because it is located on the square in La Grange.  It's mainly frequented by locals.  Their pig in the blankets are made differently.  The dough they use is less roll like and a little more chewy.  I like them a lot more than Weikel's but not as much as Hruska's because they aren't as flavorful.

This intrigues me. 

They are good.  It's worth getting a dozen.  They microwave well also.  Hruska's still have the best in the 71 corridor though.

Edited by kevwun

Original Kountry Bakery in Schulenberg is pretty solid if you’re driving from Houston to San Antonio or San Marcos. It’s down the street from where Frank’s Restaraunt once stood. 

The best “pig in a blanket” in Houston is River Oaks Donuts. They use sausage from Prasek’s.The jalapeño-cheese sausage is better than many Czech bakeries in the Hill Country. 

They have really good cinnamon rolls at Kountry Bakery also.

On 8/30/2018 at 1:35 PM, luke duke said:

I love the people who pretend to be offended by the misuse of the work kolache.

They exist. They’re called Czech Texans. 

On 9/18/2018 at 9:38 AM, 1978horn said:

Dos Gatos in San Marocs has some great Kolaches as well, both fruit and meat Kolaches ...I don't care what they are called because they are good.

Pretty good spot. I believe they use a pan sausage, and they’re not super doughy. That’s a winner in my book. 
 

I always order the same thing when I try a new Czech Bakery. A cream cheese kolache and jalapeño-cheese pig in a blanket. If they can’t make those right, it’s going to downhill from there. 

I need a Dallas rec for these. This place is a wasteland of disgusting, shiny, Eckrich sausage filled nonsense on every corner. 

5 minutes ago, TankedBevo said:

I need a Dallas rec for these. This place is a wasteland of disgusting, shiny, Eckrich sausage filled nonsense on every corner. 

It’s been some years, but the Kolache Depot in Ennis was solid. 
 

It seems like most of the bad reviews are from people that ordered the ham and cheese pockets. These people are idiots. 

7 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

They exist. They’re called Czech Texans. 

Chechnens?

Hruska’s is always great.  That said, I really like the style that they offer at places in West with the ground smoked sausage.  

7 minutes ago, AustinMT said:

Hruska’s is always great.  That said, I really like the style that they offer at places in West with the ground smoked sausage.  

Hruska’s beats the pants off of Weikel’s. When people say Weikel’s is better, I stop listening and nod politely. 

Czech Stop is great. I don’t get the disdain upthread. I worked in Dallas with a Czech Aggy that would stop in West on the drive home after every game in College Station. Win or lose, hopefully lose,  I was happy to see her Monday morning. 

9 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Original Kountry Bakery in Schulenberg is pretty solid if you’re driving from Houston to San Antonio or San Marcos. It’s down the street from where Frank’s Restaraunt once stood.

stopped there several years ago on our way to NB for a birthday/mead fest.  slams and goes hard in the paint.

.... and Lavaca is The Cow.
La vaca is Spanish for . . . the vaca.
Hruska’s beats the pants off of Weikel’s. When people say Weikel’s is better, I stop listening and nod politely. 
Czech Stop is great. I don’t get the disdain upthread. I worked in Dallas with a Czech Aggy that would stop in West on the drive home after every game in College Station. Win or lose, hopefully lose,  I was happy to see her Monday morning. 

Weikel’s pigs in a blanket are inferior to Hruska’s pigs in a blanket. But Weikel’s kolaches are better than Hruska’s kolaches.
36 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Hruska’s beats the pants off of Weikel’s. When people say Weikel’s is better, I stop listening and nod politely. 

Czech Stop is great. I don’t get the disdain upthread. I worked in Dallas with a Czech Aggy that would stop in West on the drive home after every game in College Station. Win or lose, hopefully lose,  I was happy to see her Monday morning. 

The issue at Czech Stop is parking.  Slovacek’s has better parking, but gets really crowded, but has really good ground sausage.  Village Bakery downtown is also good.

I don't think Weikel's pigs are very good.  It's a lil smoky inside a sweet roll.  The places that put real sausage inside of their pigs are much better.

if you're not getting pan sausage and kraut at hruska's something is wrong with you

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messed up my kolache stops

I’ve tried Weikels a couple of times on the drive between Austin and Houston.  It really is not as good as Hruska’s

5 minutes ago, kevwun said:

The places that put real sausage inside of their pigs are much better.

Vic Mackey puts real sausage inside of pigs.

1 hour ago, AustinMT said:

The issue at Czech Stop is parking.  Slovacek’s has better parking, but gets really crowded, but has really good ground sausage.  Village Bakery downtown is also good.

Czech Stop has that huge lot just south of the actual store. I never park in front of the place. 

What's the place in town, maybe it's Village Bakery, that puts diced sausage inside? That was different, but pretty good. 

No one has a reason to go to Danbury

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12 hours ago, kevwun said:

I don't think Weikel's pigs are very good.  It's a lil smoky inside a sweet roll.  The places that put real sausage inside of their pigs are much better.

Are you sure you are thinking of the right place, I've never had a Weikel's with a little smokey in it in my 48 years of life. It's always a full, dense, piece of real sausage.

Yep, I'm sure.  It's much closer to a wiener than sausage.

13 hours ago, luke duke said:

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my boy eats one of those with cheese for breakfast pretty much every morning.

also, one of you pedantic fucks should write a strongly worded letter to HEB informing them of their gross misuse of the word kolache.

13 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I think this a pretty good list: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wideopencountry.com/10-best-places-get-incredible-texas-kolaches/amp/

I’d probably drop Weikel’s. 

I really have no reason to ever go to Clute, or Danbury, but who knows? Chappell Hill and Rosenberg are both easy drives from Houston. 

Prasek's opened another Buccee's style store in Sealy as well. Stop there every time I come back to Houston from San Antonio.

18 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

It’s been some years, but the Kolache Depot in Ennis was solid. 
 

It seems like most of the bad reviews are from people that ordered the ham and cheese pockets. These people are idiots. 

I just found out Hypnotic donuts uses Rudolph's homemade sausage for their kolaches. I'm gonna try those out this weekend and report the findings. 

So what should I call these sweet bastards?

 

Pillsbury buttery croissant dough with jalapeño cheddar heat and serve sausage.

 

Besides delicious...

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something about your mom with a quilt on my couch...

21 hours ago, IDIOTsavant said:

Prasek's opened another Buccee's style store in Sealy as well. Stop there every time I come back to Houston from San Antonio.

Is that the one with a turd for a mascot?

2 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

Is that the one with a turd for a mascot?

Indeed. The awfully designed sausage logo is unfortunate, but the actual sausage is excellent.

9 hours ago, RollLeft said:

Is that the one with a turd for a mascot?

 

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On 8/25/2020 at 7:57 AM, huge said:

So what should I call these sweet bastards?

 

Pillsbury buttery croissant dough with jalapeño cheddar heat and serve sausage.

 

Besides delicious...

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pillsbury used to make a cornbread crescent roll and that wrapped around a little smokey was the tits

 

edit: it's back!: https://www.pillsbury.com/products/cornbread

Edited by elfenix

On 8/24/2020 at 10:15 AM, irishtexan said:

my boy eats one of those with cheese for breakfast pretty much every morning.

also, one of you pedantic fucks should write a strongly worded letter to HEB informing them of their gross misuse of the word kolache.

On it.

On 8/25/2020 at 7:57 AM, huge said:

So what should I call these sweet bastards?

 

Pillsbury buttery croissant dough with jalapeño cheddar heat and serve sausage.

 

Besides delicious...

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Time to grow up and make some whiskey dicks.

On 9/18/2018 at 2:58 PM, Deej said:

The Kolache Shoppe on Burnet used to make some thing that looked like a small cinnamon roll, but instead of cinnamon, they rolled up crumbled bacon into it. Genius.

Those were the shit.  They also briefly made one with knackwurst that was amazing but they stopped because no one bought them.  Ignorant fucks.

On 8/23/2020 at 9:06 PM, TornACL said:

Czech Stop has that huge lot just south of the actual store. I never park in front of the place. 

What's the place in town, maybe it's Village Bakery, that puts diced sausage inside? That was different, but pretty good. 

Village Bakery closed....about a year ago I think. The woman that owned it passed away. Someone may have taken over it but it didn't seem like that was going to be the case. VB was our favorite spot in West. Could exit, drive into town get your kolache and get out before you'd get halfway through the Czech Stop line. They did have fewer varieties but had what was needed and everything was labeled (kolache/klobasniky) correctly.....I'm sure they read this site and wanted to prevent surliness. 

On 8/25/2020 at 7:57 AM, huge said:

So what should I call these sweet bastards?

 

Pillsbury buttery croissant dough with jalapeño cheddar heat and serve sausage.

 

Besides delicious...

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Put that crescent roll dough around a couple tablespoons of boudin, then you’re talking, Boudin Wellington.  

Edited by Judge Roybeanbag

On 8/27/2020 at 12:29 PM, Dangit said:

Village Bakery closed....about a year ago I think. The woman that owned it passed away. Someone may have taken over it but it didn't seem like that was going to be the case. VB was our favorite spot in West. Could exit, drive into town get your kolache and get out before you'd get halfway through the Czech Stop line. They did have fewer varieties but had what was needed and everything was labeled (kolache/klobasniky) correctly.....I'm sure they read this site and wanted to prevent surliness. 

This is why i bumped this thread but neglected to follow through:

https://wacotrib.com/news/local/village-bakery-proprietor-remembered-for-more-than-abundant-kolaches/article_e49b8796-4e13-50fe-b333-3741939f5411.html

This is a terrible loss.  Village Bakery was far superior to Slovacek's or Czech Stop.  So a week ago today I stopped in at Gerik's:
 
 
A jabillion varieties, and obviously the place the locals go to.  I would need a blind taste-test against the Czech Stop and Slovacek's to render judgement.
 
9 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

This is why i bumped this thread but neglected to follow through:

https://wacotrib.com/news/local/village-bakery-proprietor-remembered-for-more-than-abundant-kolaches/article_e49b8796-4e13-50fe-b333-3741939f5411.html

This is a terrible loss.  Village Bakery was far superior to Slovacek's or Czech Stop.  So a week ago today I stopped in at Gerik's:
 
 
A jabillion varieties, and obviously the place the locals go to.  I would need a blind taste-test against the Czech Stop and Slovacek's to render judgement.
 

Czech stop is better than Slovacek's IMO. The dough is a bit more pillowy (is that a word?). Both are good though. 

Hypnotic slammed and went hard if nothing more than their choice of sausage alone, but I still yearn for the real thing dough-wise. Yes that is a paper towel being used as a plate and no I don't know why the picture is rotating itself.

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