I'm still 100%. Dad is from Halletsville and mom from Ennis. My grandmother was the six-time repeat Grand Champion kolache and strudel winner at Polka Fest during the 80s.

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I am looking at doing a cycling vacation in the Czech Republic in a couple years (probably summer of '16) and wonder if anyone would be interested in this. Briefly, it would be 8-10 days of about 35 miles each day. The trip is categorized as 'easy', and really 35 miles is not bad if you have all day to do it. I'm figuring on stopping in every town I come to to enjoy a local beer! What do you think, Ags? Pojï se mnou!

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That sounds like a blast

TreeHugger, I will most likely go with VBT, and might do the Slovakia ride rather than the Czech ride. The price is not bad at all, and I've just always wanted to see the Motherland. I'm in my 50's now, and I don't want to wait 'til it's too late to enjoy it as much as I might.

You can see from my handle my heritage!
Dad was from south of Needville. Grew up on a cotton farm.
We have our annual family reunion every year at either the SPJST hall or the KC hall in Needville. Pivo!!!!!!!!!!!

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My grandmother was the six-time repeat Grand Champion kolache and strudel winner at Polka Fest during the 80s.

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HAWT!! They don't make 'em like that anymore.

Reading through this thread is making me hungry for something....but I don't know what.

And I second Bohunk's advice to drive a couple of extra blocks past Czech Stop while in West.

Go Trojans!

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Fido - did anyone in the family learn grandma's recipes?

yeah, my mom and sisters spent time making them every Christmas. I asked my mom to help me learn how to do the strudel...I've always enjoyed it more than kolaches.

Been awhile since anyone has bumped this thread.

For any of you Ags coming to the football game from the west, leave a little earlier than you planned and stop by Caldwell on 21 and czech out their Kolache Festival today before continuing on to tailgate.

Plenty of good food and stuff to look at, even have an antique tractor and car show, and of course plenty of kolaches (although they do start running out 9-10 in the morning for the more popular places).

We're headed out to the festival this morning from Bryan. My parents have been judges in past years but can't make it this year (Dad is Czech descent, Mom just married in.)

Tailgating a Clemson game in the afternoon/evening. Going to be a great damn day.

Hopefully all of the kolache's had some sort of sausage in them

Pierogi's certainly do have some Czech/Slovak influence. Not familiar with the other however. Not sure about the bob wills music either but he's from limestone county which certainly could mean he's got so Czech family or at least influence growing up. If he was actually singing in Czech I would suspect possible Czech maternal side???

Ok, sorry somehow I missed last 10 pages of this. I'm sure these were addressed somewhere in between. Wondered why another Czech thread already.

Just found this thread for the first time. Thought about you Mouth as I drove through/by Paige going and coming to the game yesterday.

Adolf Hofner and the Pearl Wranglers we're still performing in the 60's and 70's. They worked for Pearl Brewery and promoted the San Antonio Livestock Show n Rodeo.

Had a Czech boss, used to say " Pile of rocks and s sack of ****" something like Ramada koeme spitlehoven....?

do they have a suicide hot line for people that have to listen everyday from 11.00 to 2.00 to that god awfull poka dot music.

pit hodne piva!!

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lol, god i hate that music lol my navy buddy of thirty yrs listen to that crap all the time came close to ending it a few times. lol

Great memories of growing up. My dad would always have the Czech station playing in the background.

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lol, god i hate that music lol my navy buddy of thirty yrs listen to that crap all the time came close to ending it a few times. lol

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You can find plenty of fun in Polka. Especially when you're drinking with friends. You just gotta step off your high horse.

Great thread...I'm 50%. My 50% is from the Hallettsville/Shiner area. I still carry the original name from my great great grandpa who came over in the 1880s, and we still have the land. Love going out there.

My mother did the same.

My grandpa always had it on. When that wasn't on, he would play old tejano / Norteno music which is pretty much the same, just in Spanish.

Czech's are good people, fun loving and make damn good food.

Their guns are pretty decent.

Older pic, but…

Yes they are!

had a great time with the wife and some family friends at the Molly B concert this past friday in Round Top. Beer was cold, food was delicious, and Molly's polka music was great as always. Highly recommend others to attend next year. She usually swings through Round Top in January/February each year.

Molly B play her solo assorted instruments at the end of the show?
It is a fun experience at the Round To Rifle Hall.

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Molly B play her solo assorted instruments at the end of the show?
It is a fun experience at the Round To Rifle Hall.

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no. she played all her instruments throughout the show, however to end the night she sang a song acapella

Her song she ended with was Ava Maria and it is amazing listening to her sing it. Have seen her a few times there in Round Top.

I can finally officially claim my Czech heritage. Combined my bbqing/grilling skills with not so great baking skills and made my first batch of all homemade klobasnek (or sausage kolaches, it doesn't offend me, we know what you're talking about).

Ground up pork butt and belly, used a breakfast sausage seasoning mix, stuffed in sheep casings for the smaller diameter links, and smoked for about an hour and a half on the pit. Used a family dough recipe and these were the result, very happy with how they turned out. Took some to my 86 year old, 100% Czech grandmother who made kolaches & klobasnek for us over many decades. Was a proud moment.

Pretty good thread but you didn't say anything at all about,
Momma,
Or trains,
Or trucks,
Or prison,
Or getting drunk.

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Now that's a word I'm pretty sure I know how to pronounce but never knew how to spell that my late uncle used all the time. What does it mean?

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I learned the pronounciation to sound like: yay-dahn-netch-key

Is that the way you learned it?

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Did I miss this question years ago? But yes. I always assumed it meant something along the lines of "mfer" or "OMG" (since they would never tell me exactly what it meant, I assumed it was something not for a young boy's ears). Emphasis was on first and third syllables. Second was more "nah". Third was more "nitch".

Yeah it's "oh my goodness" or "oh my God". Can also be a proxy for holy sheet!

learned something new today.

Global Partnership, Local Impact:

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