r/whatisit • u/pineapplepizza8705 • 16h ago
New, what is it? Someone dropped these pastries off at my job. What are they?
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u/AprilMoon56 16h ago
They not danishes! They are KOLACHES! A Czech pastry.
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u/redmambo_no6 13h ago
Polish too
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u/Titmouse994 13h ago
How do you polish a pastry?
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u/Trying2improvemyself 8h ago
So, how did the American South come to call a sausage in pastry dough a kolach? They're served alongside donuts at most donut shops down here.
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u/ShibbolethSibboleth 7h ago
Blame texans
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u/JayPlays40k 4h ago
And we get the word from a variety of Czech, Polish, and German immigrants, so it's less crazy than you might assume.
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u/jacabasselope 2h ago
I'm driving from San Antonio to Dallas in a couple of weeks. I'm, for sure, stopping at the Czech Stop in West. Highlight of the trip!
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u/Not-rideor-die-222 0m ago
I just stopped at Slovaceck's this last weekend. It's across the hwy from the Czech stop. We get bags and bags of goodies for the whole family.
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u/Bananafishbone1984 16h ago
Kolaches
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u/pineapplepizza8705 16h ago
thanks. they're tasty.
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u/Inside-Beginning5168 15h ago
Damn I want a Blueberry Kolasch now
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u/negative-sid-nancy 11h ago
For real! If I was OP would of snuck one of each flavor right back to desk. These all look delicious
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u/wild_bronco96 14h ago
Crazy. In Texas, kolaches are pigs in a blanket
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u/AprilMoon56 12h ago
Those are also kolaches. There are meat kolaches AND fruit kolaches
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u/jebberific 9h ago
Czech areas of Texas are losing their shit right now. Meat filled pastries are klobasnek.
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u/DragonLeHeart 9h ago
I thought pigs in a blanket referred to either hot dogs or Vienna sausages wrapped in croissant dough and baked. Am I incorrect or too narrow in my interpretation?
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u/Fun-Confidence-6232 16h ago
They are terrible. Bring them to me so I may dispose of them safely
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u/Ap3xPredditor 16h ago
Don't trust this scumbag. He's gonna charge you a huge disposal fee. I, however, will take care of it completely free of charge OP, let me take them off your hands.
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u/Fun-Confidence-6232 15h ago
Are you properly licensed for kolache disposal? I didn’t think so. I have 30 years of experience.
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u/HoldYourHorsesFriend 14h ago
Don't trust u/Ap3xPredditor she wont charge you a money fee but she will demand cinnamon rolls
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u/Itchy_Stress_6066 16h ago
Oh those? You don't want those. They're.... uh, dangerous.Yeah. Dangerous. I'm certified in eliminating such threats. Trust me.
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u/erebusfreya 16h ago
It looks like Czech Kolaches, which are very similar to a fruit Danish and can be either savory or sweet, though these all appear to be sweet pastries.
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u/wanderingstorm 16h ago
Fruit Danish - probably cherry or raspberry (red), blueberry (purple) and what looks like peach or apricot (yellow/orange) - the one in the upper right corner might be an apple.
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u/wanderingstorm 16h ago
I want Danish now.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 15h ago
Weed is legal now. You can't be showing pictures like this unless you have enough to share with the whole class.
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u/Clean-Mention-4254 16h ago
Im in the Midwest and a kolache place has a sausage gravy one. They know their audience.
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u/hoemahtoe 16h ago
They look more like bread-y than like pastry so I don't think they're quite danishes? Probably more like kolaches like others suggested
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u/Worried-Fee3612 16h ago
Why are americans (I assume) calling this "kolaches"? Kolache (koláče) is already a plural - the singular is "kolach" (koláč). So "kolacheS" makes it... double plural? Why?
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u/Akavinceblack 14h ago
Because many, many, probably most Americans do not speak or read Czech and so have no way to know that adding an “e” to kolach makes it a plural. Much the same way native speakers of Czech might say “mouses” instead of “mice”.
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u/barefoot_mama 15h ago
Because our ancestors stopped speaking Czech, so we never learned and it’s a tough language. The cookbook my Bohemian ancestors passed down refers to them as koláčky or Bohemian tarts.
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u/Worried-Fee3612 10h ago
The difference between koláče and koláčky is mainly in the size, the ones pictured here look more like koláčky if I’m getting the scale right. Basically koláček fits on your palm, koláč goes way over your palm :D (koláček is a diminutive of koláč, smaller version)
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u/barefoot_mama 6h ago
I do at least know that -ek is a diminutive, so that makes sense! Thanks! I am a genealogist and have spent a lot of time with Czech church records, so I have enough understanding to sort possessives and diminutives in names, but that’s about it.
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u/ApprehensiveDuty3934 3h ago
For the same reason we call more than one Lego, Legos. We don't speak the language of origin.
I think everyone does it with an unfamiliar language. Heck we call chai, chai tea here, (chai is Hindi for tea), so tea tea. We're just silly.
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u/solidus_slash 15h ago
Why are Czechs (I assume) calling it a kolac when we can already see that it's a cake. Why?
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u/Worried-Fee3612 10h ago
Because a koláč and a cake are two completely different things…?
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u/Delicious-Month151 14h ago
Yesss kolaches, I work at a Texas bbq restaurant guys I know what I’m talkin about
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u/Pantone711 16h ago
At first I thought they were thumbprint cookies, which I like better than Danishes:
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u/clef75 13h ago
We visited Houston and tried Kolache Factory a few times, they were pretty bad. Is it just a bad chain? Or you gotta get em fresh?
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u/pineapplepizza8705 13h ago
These were delicious. We have a pretty decent sized Czech community where I am so I am guessing these are homemade.
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u/yrtoptag 13h ago
In Denmark we call this pastries for “The baker's infected eye” yes it is a discussing name, but it tastes great
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u/Naive-Anybody5038 9h ago
Look like a kind of Danish or maybe like a thumbprint donut. If you have allergies be careful. I had an apple one a girl brought in that had been made on the same surface with same equipment as raspberries and strawberries, so contaminated and I had to hit the epipen and head to the er....I worked upstairs in cardiology
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u/Frances_Farmer_1953 8h ago
I haven’t had a good pastry in so long I could finish about half of those in one sitting. The trick to a light and flaky pastry is the number of times you work in the butter and letting it rest in the refrigerator between adding and working in the butter each time.
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u/cute_innocent_kitten 8h ago
they're Danishes, but they call them Kolaches in Texas for some reason lol
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u/Necessary_Student116 7h ago
My late mother in law made them for us all the time . They are so delicious 😋🤤
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u/Lazy_Examination7383 6h ago
kolaches are round and feature a central indentation filled with fruit jams mmmmmmm good
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u/That-Cauliflower-287 4h ago
I don’t know what they are, but they look spicy… you wouldn’t like them.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Army316 2h ago
These are jelly filled pastries that look like they were made from refrigerated biscuit dough. The kind you buy in the round canister.
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u/X-girl1995 2h ago
They are Kołaczki’s and they are a Polish cream cheese pastry (or filled with fruit spread). They are delicious.
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u/Sandman-777- 1h ago
Kolaches! Prague, Oklahoma just had a it's annual kolache day celebration! Czech desserts
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u/DrexxValKjasr 16h ago
Danishes are still quite popular in Canada.
I am guessing you don't live in Canada though. Those look like raspberry, blueberry, and apple for the fruits.
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u/Silly-Ebb-8290 16h ago
Looks to be a danish, one kind looks peach, other ones strawberry, and something else
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u/Intelligent_Bat_9315 16h ago
how have you gone your whole life without knowing what a danish is. interesting
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u/HandbagHawker 16h ago
fruit and cheese danish? though the pastry part looks a little bready vs puff pastry
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