[jiofih]

Is the post missing the bottom half? Where is the business, when does it open, does it have a website? What are the four flavors?

(for the food geeks: talk of bastardization of food! This Texas creation has almost zero resemblance to the original, which is just a flaky fruit tart)

[ezl]

Totally true re: bastardization :)

I grew up in Houston and had "kolaches" everywhere. It wasn't until Tom and I started working on this business that I even learned the word klobasnek/klobasniky.

I feel we're fighting an uphill battle already with kolache vs kolace vs kolacky vs kolach, etc

Additionally the polish vs the czech versions are slightly different. Here in Chicago, the Polish kolaczki is often quite flaky with a drier dough and more like a dough square folded in over a fruit filling.

In Texas a true/traditional Czech kolache is often a soft, pillowy sweet ROUND pastry with the fruit filling.

However, despite all that, in Texas, especially in Houston, "kolache" is often just used as a catchall, even if not super accurate. But there are 50 "kolache" shops in Houston and no "klobasnek" shops.

We did debate it for a while, but we opted for just going with the grain rather than trying to be more correct.

Admittedly, there's a little bit of cowardice in that, but we decided there were enough challenges ahead, so we didn't want to add that extra journey.

[gambiting]

I mean, in Poland, "kołacz" is just a very sweet bread roll, we used to have them for supper with some hot cocoa. But I have seen savoury variations as well, filled with cheese and meat.....I'm not sure this is as much of an abomination as we might think ;-)