# West, Texas to receive foreign aid from Czech Republic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624 "2013-04-24T22:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/21 "2013-04-26T15:39:08Z")
> [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](#): > > Wait, the Czech Stop is in West, Texas? We used to stop there all the time when we were driving I35, and buy dozens of their kolaches and freeze them to last us for months. Shit, I didn’t know that. Those things were delicious. > [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Yep, that’s the place. I think it’s also a Shell station. And screw the kolaches, the roast beef and sausage roll thingies are delish. IIRC they make their own sausage. I grew up in Waco and attended Baylor… twice. Ain’t no telling how many times we’ve stopped up the road in West over the years. [Here’s](https://dumpyourphoto.com/photo/Wxm7rXbPFU) a picture from inside that exact store I took just a month back. Them’s my sister’s Crybabies for sale there. Perfect w/ Czech fare. Heck yeah it’s heartbreaking. Those are salt of the Earth folks, to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/22 "2013-04-26T15:53:44Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Yep, that’s the place. I think it’s also a Shell station. And screw the kolaches, the roast beef and sausage roll thingies are delish. IIRC they make their own sausage. Klobasnek (or klobásník), fwiw. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/23 "2013-04-26T17:42:46Z")
Capt Kirk, thanks for that on the Czech connection to West. Ignorance fought. Tangent: West was also the site of [another explosion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas) that started an era of spectacle train crashes. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/24 "2013-04-26T17:46:23Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Klobasnek (or klobásník), fwiw. Mmm… klobasniki. One thing I’m a tad surprised hasn’t made it over here yet is those trdelniki things they sell in Prague and elsewhere- the hollow pastry things with the almond sugar, etc… Those would sell like crazy at the Czech Stop and at Westfest, I’d imagine. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/25 "2013-04-26T17:50:53Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Klobasnek (or klobásník), fwiw. Thanks, but gonna have to stick with “thingies.” 🙂 **Lieu** , that is very cool! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/26 "2013-04-26T22:00:07Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Don’t mess with Czechxas! That made my nose bleed a little. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/27 "2013-04-28T00:29:03Z")
Pretty sure baseball player Scott Podsednik is from West. And of Czech descent. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/28 "2013-04-28T01:53:41Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Them’s my sister’s Crybabies for sale there. Perfect w/ Czech fare. That Crybaby cornbread on their website sounds awesome. I may have to get a jar the next time I’m in Waco! (wife went to law school at Baylor, and has friends who still live there) ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/29 "2013-04-28T02:13:58Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > While not to disparage any posters on the board, I didn’t consider it to be a joke considering the source. while not to disparage any posters on the board, I will now proceed to disparage a poster on the board. good show. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/30 "2013-04-28T02:28:25Z")
Count me as another fan of West and the Czech Stop. I stopped there countless times when I was in college, making the trip between Fort Worth and College Station. It’s been ages since I’ve headed south on 35, though. ☹ Most of my travels these days take me, well, _west_. Maybe I’ll take a day trip to West this summer. 🙂 Very cool of the Czech Republic to reach out. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/31 "2013-04-28T08:54:51Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I seem to remember the Canadian navy, the Mexican army, and the Singaporean air force providing aid to the US after Katrina. > > Countries help each other at need. It’s just a neighbourly thing to do. In fact, a number of other countries offered aid as well. My adoptive country, I remember, had a military field hospital mostly ready for service, with everything but the perishable medicines and the actual human beings loaded on airplanes, ready to go if needed. Most of these offers were not accepted because of logistics - too many helpers end up getting in each other’s way. But they were sincerely meant and not intended as an insult to the US. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/32 "2013-04-29T12:37:47Z")
> [@bump](#): > > That Crybaby cornbread on their website sounds awesome. It sure was on her dinner table, I’d guess elsewhere too. I like 'em best in scrambled eggs and on a burger. Even Georges in Waco has a Crybaby burger now. She was at the Czech Stop last week checking on her Czech mates. I’ll stop there with some buddies this weekend en route to Dallas so we can give them some business, make a donation and hopefully hear some stories from the locals. I’m curious about the recovery and want to get a sense of how people are dealing with a life altering event now. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/33 "2013-05-02T22:38:00Z")
“Crybabies”? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624/34 "2013-05-05T19:48:14Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > While not to disparage any posters on the board, I didn’t consider it to be a joke considering the source. I would then suggest that you have been reading the guy’s posts incorrectly. I don’t think I’ve read a single “stupid” comment of his where he _wasn’t_ joking or otherwise not serious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/west-texas-to-receive-foreign-aid-from-czech-republic/656624.md?page=1)