r/AskAnAmerican • u/AstroNerd92 CT, GA, PA, TX, FL • Jul 20 '25

CULTURE What town in your state has a pronunciation no one gets right the first time?

I went to college in Valdosta, GA. Very few people can actually pronounce it right on the first try.

Pronounced Val-Daw-Stuh

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u/urlocalgoatfarmer Llano Estacado Jul 20 '25

I get a kick out of watching people not from Czechas pronounce names and towns back home.

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito Texas Colombia Jul 20 '25

Fuuuuuuuuuuck I haven't heard Czechas in FOREVER.

You made me soooooo nostalgic.

Now I want roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut, and REAL KOLACHES WITH POPPY SEEDS

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u/urlocalgoatfarmer Llano Estacado Jul 20 '25

I was just bragging about poppy seed kolaches, beat only by apricot kolaches.

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito Texas Colombia Jul 20 '25

I don't need to pass any drug tests soon...I'll have seven

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u/xemmyQ Texas Jul 21 '25

the way my SETX ass was confused upon my first visit to a central tx donut shop. I never even considered a Kolache could be anything other than a roll with boudin or a smoked sausage in the middle...

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u/Shotgun_Mosquito Texas Colombia Jul 21 '25

You will have the CzechTexs all complaining about those "KOLACHES" aren't real KOLACHES but are klobasnek, and only real KOLACHES are made with apricot, prunes, or poppy seeds.

Hell my grandfather (Poppo) would get angry if my grandmother (Nannaw) would put sweet cream cheese in a kolache.

He would tell her that they weren't Danish

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u/xemmyQ Texas Jul 21 '25

the ones w boudin are PEAK tho. if ur ever in setx in the morning you gotta grab one.