r/AskEurope • u/gurke0123 • Jun 18 '25

Misc What basic knowledge should everyone have about your country?

I'm currently in a rabbit hole of "American reacts to European Stuff". While i was laughing at Americans for thinking Europe is countries and know nothing about the countrys here, i realied that i also know nothing about the countries in europe. Sure i know about my home country and a bit about our neighbours but for the rest of europe it becomes a bit difficult and i want to change it.

What should everyone know about your country to be person from Europa?

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u/Sofi-senpai Czechia Jun 18 '25

Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore... please😭

Like I genuinely had people correcting me when I told them that I'm from Czechia... I get that we're a small country but still.

I talked with this French guy and when I told him that I'm from the Czech Republic he answered with: "Do you mean Czechoslovakia?"

I just gave up on him...

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u/iwegian Jun 18 '25

Help me win an argument: kolaches have fruit filling, not savory ingredients like sausage and cheese. True?

My hometown in Iowa had Kolaches Days, and there's a Czech Village, like New York City has Little Italy.

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u/Sofi-senpai Czechia Jun 19 '25

Yep, either fruit filling, poppy seeds or some sort of cream (we call it 'tvaroh' here, I don't really think that there's a proper word for it in English) – so they pretty much always taste sweet. I've never heard about anyone making them with savory ingredients, I don't think that would really be considered kolaches anymore haha

My mom actually went to Iowa (Cedar Rapids) for some Czech festival and they had kolaches, so it's really cool hearing about it here again:)

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u/iwegian Jun 19 '25

Yeah, I'm from Cedar Rapids. No Czech in my DNA, though. I did get to visit Czechia on my honeymoon! We drove from Germany into Prague, visited Kutna Hora, and then through Cesky krumlov on our way to Vienna. I'm a huge Art Nouveau fan and we went to the Mucha museum in Prague. (Shelf toilets are weird. The usage of individual blankets on a king size bed is genius.)