[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Speaking GERMAN In TEXAS (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 8/17/2011 4:58:16 PM EDT
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In Texas there is a town called New Braunfels , where there is a large German-speaking population. One day, a local rancher driving down a country road noticed a man using his hand to drink water from the rancher's stock pond. The rancher rolled down the window and shouted: "Sehr angenehm! Trink das wasser nicht. Die kuhen haben dahin gesheissen." Which means: ("Glad to meet you! Don't drink the water. The cows have pooped in it.") The man shouted back: "I'm from New York and just down here campaigning for Obama's health care plan. I can't understand you. Please speak in English." The rancher replied: "Use both hands. You'll get more." |
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It's sad that most of the old timers that would speak in German and Czech when I was little are gone. I wish I would have picked it up but none of my family really spoke it, just distant family and friends  Tell me about it. My father was born in Prague and was half German, half Russian. He spoke German, Czech, Russian, and several other languages fluently, but only spoke English at home. 
That aside, I've stopped in West for kolaches more times than I can remember. 
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Quoted: It's sad that most of the old timers that would speak in German and Czech when I was little are gone. I wish I would have picked it up but none of my family really spoke it, just distant family and friends My mom told me about a guy she knew whose first language was Czech, his second Spanish and his third was English. Quoted: That aside, I've stopped in West for kolaches more times than I can remember. Czech Stop or Kolachek's Kolache Kitchen? |
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It's sad that most of the old timers that would speak in German and Czech when I was little are gone. I wish I would have picked it up but none of my family really spoke it, just distant family and friends My mom told me about a guy she knew whose first language was Czech, his second Spanish and his third was English. Quoted:
That aside, I've stopped in West for kolaches more times than I can remember.
Czech Stop or Kolachek's Kolache Kitchen? Whichever one is in the shell station. Czech, German......What's the difference? 
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It's sad that most of the old timers that would speak in German and Czech when I was little are gone. I wish I would have picked it up but none of my family really spoke it, just distant family and friends My mom told me about a guy she knew whose first language was Czech, his second Spanish and his third was English. Quoted:
That aside, I've stopped in West for kolaches more times than I can remember.
Czech Stop or Kolachek's Kolache Kitchen? Whichever one is in the shell station. Czech, German......What's the difference?
They closed Kolachek's a few years ago.
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Quoted: It's also home of the best kolache shop in the USA. You don't know Texas well. New Braunfels is a bit outside the Czech Triangle where there are many more Czech bakeries that have authentic kolache. While you can find a few 9 pin bowling alleys around New Braunfels, a few more Schutzenverein and quite a few Hermann Sons Halls, there isn't a single SPJST hall. Where you find the most Czechs, you will find the best kolaches. No, I won't name names or places, they must be found. Usually within 50 miles of Praha (that is Prague in Czech and yes, there is a community by that name). I was bred for beer drinking. Czech and German.  |
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It's sad that most of the old timers that would speak in German and Czech when I was little are gone. I wish I would have picked it up but none of my family really spoke it, just distant family and friends My mom told me about a guy she knew whose first language was Czech, his second Spanish and his third was English. Quoted:
That aside, I've stopped in West for kolaches more times than I can remember.
Czech Stop or Kolachek's Kolache Kitchen? I's been a few years, but there was the one in the gas station (when I was short on time), and another in town. I used to be a regional sales guy, so depending on how my schedule was running would determine which one I stopped into. One time I even did a face to face EE sale with another ARFCOM'er at the gas station. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It's sad that most of the old timers that would speak in German and Czech when I was little are gone. I wish I would have picked it up but none of my family really spoke it, just distant family and friends My mom told me about a guy she knew whose first language was Czech, his second Spanish and his third was English. Quoted: That aside, I've stopped in West for kolaches more times than I can remember. Czech Stop or Kolachek's Kolache Kitchen? Whichever one is in the shell station. Czech, German......What's the difference? They closed Kolachek's a few years ago. |
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Pretty funny. Unfortunately, though Texas German is nearly an extinct dialect. 20 years ago I think that there were only 60,000 Texas German monoglots left, and most were pretty old. According to some university prof from Austin there are like 20,000 Texas-Deutsch speakers left in the Hill Country... ETA: found it! http://www.tgdp.org/ Viel Spass damit... 
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Czechs not Germans This. Wiki says: Kolache (also spelled kolace, kolach, or kolacky, from the Czech and Slovak plural koláče, sg. koláč) is a type of pastry that holds a dollop of fruit rimmed by a puffy pillow of supple dough.[1] Originating as a semi-sweet wedding dessert from Central Europe, they have become popular in parts of the United States. Often in the United States, kolaches are used for breakfast, stuffed with ham and cheese.
Although the Germans have some yummy pastry too.
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| After driving past the Czech stop for 4 years I finally stopped in. Not worth the extra time it took over just getting gas. Kolache Rolf's in CS tastes just as good, costs less and is faster. There's a place out in Snook that makes em, forget the name, that blows both away. |
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Fredricksberg has some mean schnitzel. 
Spent 4 years near Fredericksburg going to school, and I visited quite often. That said, the German food there is over priced and really quite bland
I think it has become more of a tourist thing than an actuall effort at good food, at least with all of the places that line main street. |