The great Scouse pasty war
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Pasties are pretty serious grub.
My take is that Sayers quality just wasn’t good enough and still isn’t, and that all the buyouts gutted the heart out of the business.
As a scouser I choose Greggs over Sayers any day.
If I'm thinking quality, Greggs isn't my first suggestion...
Traveling to the UK and Australia, I love them. So satisfying.
Why do we get stuck with... gas station hotdogs instead?
I genuinely don't get it.
A Czech koláč is always sweet, with no exceptions. I Googled the foods you and the previous comment mention, and I've never seen anything like them. The Czechs do sometimes bake bread rolls with a sausage inside, though – they are very big on sausages – and they're sold cold in supermarkets and bakeries as a savoury snack. I think they're called variants on "bread roll with sausage", though, and I don't think I've ever heard them called "klobasnek" or "klobasnik".
Saying that, now we live in the British Isles, my wife has developed a fondness for sausage rolls. Including Gregg's ones when we visit the UK. :-)
"For decades, Czech Stop has been known far and wide for its world-famous Texas kolaches"[0]
You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" in your searching. Using "Texas" as a qualifier does big things. Texas BBQ or Texas chili is not the same thing as BBQ or chili from other places. Texas kolaches are not the same thing as Czech koláč, nor never claimed to be. At best, inspired by from Czech babis passing down and tweaking recipes since the 1800s
Why would you even think that, let alone say it?
I didn't miss it. I wasn't talking about Texan food. I clearly said, and you quoted that I've never been to Texas in my life.
I was talking about the original stuff from the old country, that inspired this. Nothing else. I thought it might be a bit of fun, something of interest.
I should have realised that someone misunderstand and insult me. I mean, it's HN. :-(
Since you're not familiar with Texas folklore, using the word Texas as a qualifier is part of being Texas. "Everything is bigger in Texas" is a common phrase. In golf, there's "Texas rules". In Texas BBQ, it's understood that if there's a fire in the box, there's a beer in the hand.
No, I didn't miss. I didn't look. I wasn't talking about that so there is no reason I'd look. I didn't want results about local derived foods as I was specifically talking about the originals, so your "correction" is wrong and your assertion that I missed them is just plain rude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klob%C3%A1sn%C3%ADk
It's very much a Texas thing.
Pork pies even have a protected geographic designation now:
Scotch eggs are a common, if old fashioned, pub snack and are sold in supermarkets.
Jellied eels are a London thing, mainly poor areas of central East London, and very very rare even there now.
I do. This man is benefitting from your custom: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39443585
Obligatory dad joke.
How do you make a sausage roll?
Push it down a hill.
Same, except it's just over 50 years for me.
This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediately remembered trips to Sayers bakeries with my mum when I was little, although as a little lad I was more interested in the cakes than the sausage rolls myself.
Makes me think of the cake vs. biscuit philosophical arguments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Classification_and...
Something I really missed in a decade living in Czechia.
It's odd how in other countries it is mostly baked goods that have deep differences and leave whole much-loved categories missing. For me: pasties, mince pies, egg custard tarts, Jamaican-style patties.
The Slavs love this stuff called tvaroh: it's the curds that, given more work and time, can be made into cheese. It's a semisolid sour-tasting milky stuff. They put it in all kinds of foods, especially cakes and pastries. I first tasted it at 46 years old and I hate the stuff. Every visit to a bakery is a lottery: will it be all right, and maybe even good, or will it have tvaroh in it and taste like it was made with extract of very old gym sock?
I taught English for a while and many students wanted to know the English word for Tvaroh as it's not in the dictionary. I told them we don't eat it and so don't have a word for it. It blew their minds.
It is not cottage cheese. It is nothing even vaguely similar to lemon curd. It's sort of similar to cheese curd but you can't buy cheese curd, whereas every supermarket has a dozen types of tvaroh.