Wild seeing Dunn as your profile pic. It’s so random, if you don’t mind please elaborate on it. Also, not sure Dunn would have had a ton to offer. He’s from a small town about 30 miles north of Houston and as far as I know didn’t spend a lot of time in the city it self.
FYI - I went to high school with him/played football together, etc. We’ve lost touch over the years but I knew him well as a kid.
He’s from New Caney right? I grew up in Kingwood and we played New Caney and Porter a lot. So I’m pretty familiar with that part of town.
Yes, well he lived in Porter but went NCHS. There was no Porter high school back in our day. I lived in Kingwood for a while before moving to California. Loved it.
That’s wild man, especially with how much larger Porter is too. New Caney ISD even got a new stadium up there that’s pretty nice, but that was only when I was a sophomore or junior in high school.
Just started the new Houston Trap Draw. We are going to need an apology next episode for the multiple Kolache mispronunciations.
Going to the Klein HEB was 100% a bad choice. Should’ve seen the one in the Woodlands or Kingwood. Those would’ve blown minds
@Tron next time around gotta hit up Ford’s other restaurant State of Grace. May also want to look into BCN or MAD, Coltivare, Squabble, Le Colonial (to name a few). Also, Houston has a decent steakhouse scene: Steak 48, Georgia James, B&B Butchers, Mastro’s, and Vic & Anthony’s (shou out Tilman J. Fertitta).
Because the USGA required them in order to be on-site at the US Open?
Not gonna lie, I never even considered the USGA requirement for some reason. I was just thinking of the regular flying I’ve done lately where it was advised you to it before you get on a plane. Question revoked.
If the takeaway from your first HEB experience is “jury is still out on HEB” something went wrong somewhere. I don’t know how that’s possible. You either picked one of the worst ones (no clue where Klein stacks up), you went at a terrible time (Friday afternoon is one of the worst by far), or you just wouldn’t know a good grocery store if it slapped you in the face.
Also, the confusion about the layout lost me and makes me wonder what the ideal grocery store layout is? You have to end in the frozen section but if you don’t start with produce, where are you supposed to start? And I don’t buy the “produce doesn’t stay fresh if you start there” BS either since a majority of it is just out in the open anyway.
All that said, your kolache pronunciations were fine. I’ve heard both plenty of times.
If it has an e on the end, it is pronounced “ko-lah-chee.”
Should’ve had them run up Kuykendahl
The Costco comparison hurt me. I’m hoping it’s just the scale of the store that surprised them because H‑E‑B and Costco are nothing alike.
I’m listening to it now, and I think @Tron and @Randy may have missed the reasoning in us asking them to get a kolache.
The kolache is actually a Czech dish. Large amounts of Czech immigrants came to Texas in the early 1850s and settled in Central Texas. There they began making kolaches, which are traditionally a pastry with some sort of fruit in the middle (what we call kolaches now are actually called Klobasnek). The reason Texans always want visitors to get kolaches is because, up until recently, we were the only ones that had them thanks to those original Czech immigrants.
So while you may get a Shipley’s in Jacksonville, and the recipes might be the same, you’re not going to get the history of Texas and our immigrant culture built into that kolache like you would here.
Then you get a boudin kolache and reach nirvana.
Edit: Got a bit further, Randy please enlighten me as to what a Bearcat is that you know it’s misspelled if you spell it Bearkat.
Y’all also missed Jim Parsons, Sheldon from Big Bang Theory (Klein Oak) and Matt Bomer, White Collar and Magic Mike (Klein).
He’s from Cincinnati and knows how Bearcat is spelled.
It’s Cincinnati who is wrong, as evidenced by their take on chili
I’d much rather have a klobasnek than a kolach. Not a fan of danishes, and it seems very adjacent to the latter.
Also, Sam Houston State admits the “k” spelling is fake.
Klein definitely doesn’t need to use the “k”
Hoping the letter “k” thing just clouded your judgement during the Krispy Kreme hate, otherwise we’ll need to convene before welcoming you back to North Carolina.
Skyline Chili. Slightly more cinnamon than I’d prefer.
Totally subjective and possibly contrarian take.