Kolaches

Yeah, they have these wherever they have a decent sized Asian population. I wanna say this dessert/drink became popular in Houston in the early-mid 90s. I'm 110% sure Chicago would have this... not too sure about Maine though lol.

 

Great. I've been living back in California for 1 year now and I hadn't realized I can't get Kolaches. Now, thanks to the OP, I will probably think about them every weekend morning.

 

Dude.. Fatty... you just got owned.

That's friggin' hilarious!

 

 

No local So cal people know what a kolache is, I have had this conversation with plently of people out here.

 

The Central Europeans such as Moravians, Poles, Slovaks, Bohemians etc probably settled mainly through a large swath of Middle America. Texas and upward through the Midwest seem to be the main areas for them to have sufficient population mass to sustain their cultural traditions.

Of course there are people with Central European ancestry along the West & East Coasts, but their <i>communities</i> probably don't have as much traction as those in Texas and the Midwest. Thus the <i>kolache</i> probably didn't have enough nurturing to grow into a regional favorite.

 

That's weird the first time I had bubble tea was in San Jose and that was a few years before I saw it anywhere else in the US.

 

There is a decent sized Central European population here in MN from all of the miners who came right before WWI to work the landmines but Kolaches don't seem to be a big thing here. The only places I've seen Kolaches popular in the US is in Texas and NYC.

Also good to see you back in Clutchfans Mandy!

 

There's a Wenchell's donuts franchise up here in Omaha that makes kolaches, I don't know of any other place that does. Other than that, one of my co-workers originally from Houston had his sister same-day ship some kolaches from Shipley's; because no one at work knew what they were.

 

I usually make them at home by buying a pack of lil smokies sausage, canned biscuits, and whatever cheese you like. Put the oven on 350, flatten one biscuit and put in a couple of lil smokies and your cheese, then roll it into a kolache, seal the edges and repeat.