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December 21, 2006
Ethnic Foods
For at least the past year, I've had an on-going disagreement with a coworker of mine over what is a kolachi. Today, I believe I won the fight.
What we agree on, the bread. It's a more yeast styled, soft bread. Clearly not a pastry bread.
What we don't agree on, the shape and fillings. In my northeastern US world, the filling is a poppyseed roll, while his Texas roots claims it can be fruits as well.
Thanks to the US Postal service and my parents, a shipment of kolachi arrived last night. I brought in a bit of one roll for my coworker to try. He liked it, but claimed it wasn't kolachi. His look more like a donut/danish filled in the middle, while mine is more a long roll.
Our resident Russian coworker was brought in to mediate this battle today, and he agreed that what I brought in is in fact a kalachi (note he corrected my spelling of it). He even thought this was an excellent version of it, despite it being a grocery made.
The argument has now moved into the proper spelling while completely bringing productivity to a halt. Not that the holidays didn't already do that.
Posted by Dan at December 21, 2006 01:56 PM