Does Chimney Cake (Trdelník) Deserve All The HATE?
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- čas přidán 29. 11. 2023
- Trdelník, also known as Chimney Cake, has been labeled by many as a tourist trap. But does this Prague food deserve such uncompromising treatment? Let's take a look at Chimney Cake's history and compare it with other Czech traditional dishes.
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i first went to prague 14 years ago and you had to hunt for trdelnik, i went again last year and it was everywhere.
If you search for trdelník in Czech National Digital Library, you will find 192 documents. Not all of them are related to the chimney cake, as trdelník can mean also some kind of fish. Anyway, there are a lot of recipes for trdelník and they vary a lot - doughs are completely different and preparation as well. Some recipes even recommend frying in lard. It also doesn't seem that trdelník was forgotten. Lidové pečivo v Čechách a na Moravě from 1988 covers trdelník on six pages. It says that trdelník is known all over the South Moravia from Slovak borders to Znojmo and Třebíč. It also contains recipes for different variants of trdelník. So even if the original came from Hungary (and the story with the general sounds more like a legend than a historical fact), it became something different in Moravia, and I would call it traditional Czech, in the same way we consider other regional dishes as traditional.
Found a couple of stands in Brno this year
Kürtőskalács (trdelník) is an original Hungarian dish. It's best with sugar and chopped nuts.
Absolutely keep it on your list of traditional Czech foods, as long as Valery promises to not sing again. :) Last time I was near Czechoslovakia was the last patrol on the border before it opened up. Your videos are the best. Thanks a bunch.
I love trdelník and Real Prague Guides. The combination of the two equals to a lovely in Prague. ❤️❤️
I saw one here in Italy this days...
Great ear muffs... you outdid yourself. Oh yeah, There was a guy selling trdelnik in a christmas market in Montreal last weekend
I love them. I have Czech friends who also love them- especially their kids. I like the plain ones. They are good to fill the stomach before a night out. Mose so I like poppy filled kolach, but try to find a kiosk selling them in the centre. I also miss the 'traditional' Wenceslas dogs and fried cheese kiosks. They were a 3Am night out tradition for me...
You should review traditional Prague poutine. You order beef goulash, French fries and fried cheese. You cut up the fried cheese, put half on the fries, pour the goulash over it, then top with the rest of the fried cheese...
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Trdelnik with Strawberry ice cream is always delicious even if it's a tourist trap. I think having a Chimney cake in Prague is a great way to remember your visit as a tourist in Czech, because it is not available in most other European countries except in Slovakia and Budapest and maybe in other Slavic speaking countries. Hungarian is not Slavic, but you can find the Chimney cakes there. Great food video Val!😊
The fact that Trdelnik is available in Prague’s tourist hotspots ONLY says it all. It may not be a tourist trap or scam like the Prague Ham that is sold by weight.
That intro was so cute!!! OMG!! Love your channel, thank you for being you!!!. Great video.
Good new video! I am heading to Prague tomorrow! I will take Val's advice and layer up. See you all Saturday!
I'm with you, it's delicious. Keep it Prague!
I appreciate that I'll be able to visit next winter knowing it's not a traditional Czech pastry. But it is still like nothing I've ever had, so I'm excited - and if it's warm and tasty, I won't care at all about its heritage!
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RPG's bringing truth!!! I am not for food gatekeeping. Eat what you like. Coke a Cola is only about 150 years old, does that mean it is not traditional American? Does that mean you shouldn't drink it anywhere but the US? Trdelnik looks yummy, I think I'll try one. It would probably go good with a Coke.
😂 we only had one, from just across the Charles bridge, it was really good but it seemed a curse in the end as it never seemed to end. As much as you eat, it just seemed to be more🤪. I think we threw the last bit away as we could not eat anymore and we were absolutely stuffed😵💫. But I would definitely recommend anyone visiting to try at least one, just make sure you have a very empty stomach first😉. Great. Work guys as always 👏🏻
😂😂 we did the same in summer when we visited Prague. We regretted buying each for everyone. Just one of the cake is enough for 3 people
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A visit to old town Prague without a few Trdelnik seem like I am missing something, so yes, last time I visit(3 wks ago) I have a few(over 3-4 days in Prague) and I am not ashame of it!
I've been here 17 and a half years and NEVER HAD IT! I had a "couple" (moc) of Czech girlfriends who warned me off (trdelník weren't here before the 90s). Are you doing a review of trdelníky? Love to see you guys some time - you probably know where I am.
Avoided the chimney cake but did find two lovely little cafes with kolach
Wooho! First comment :-) it tastes bad as soon as it's cold and the price is enough reason to call it scam.
Personal y know that like kurtosh kalach and every time I eat one its without ice cream toppings and noting more than a simple cover of sugar, cinnamon or caramel, even nuts, I eat a lot of them in Spain Rumania and Hungary and for what I know are originally form Hungary
i had trdelnik in sydney, australia. i think it's okay to remember where a particular food originated from, but in 2023 everything is globalized so anyone can try any food from anywhere. To me, that's a good thing. Los angeles is known for having good korean food, london has good indian food. I have no problem getting non native food as long as they make it tasty :D
Yes but here they rebrand it as traditional Czhech food but it's actually from Transylvania and/or Hungary🇭🇺
I really enjoyed chimney cakes both in Prague and Budapest. In Prague I believe there were more options. Anywat, for sure I will eat again when I have the chance to buy one.
Well , Hungarian gulyás is completely different from the Czech counterpart. As a Hungarian, I love both.
I first had chimney cake in Bratislava in 2010, and a few days later in Valtice. I noticed that same week that first shop in Prague, and it was pretty basic, no ice cream yet. Then I didn't visit Prague for 5 years and noticed at Christmas Time there were clusters of Svarak, Trdelnik, and Sausage stands in the Old town. Every subsequent year more and more Trdelnik shops opening up. Last Summer I noticed Trdlo Cafes in Brno, where mostly teenagers were the primary customers. I will argue though, that the information we find on the Internet is not 100% accurate. A real Czech will argue that Schnitzel, Buchty, and the Czech version of Goulash (Hungarian Goulash is completely different recipe since it doesn't contain a Vitana seasoning packet) are authentically Czech and all invented by Jara Cimrman. 😉😉
I don't think anyone disputes that Buchty are originally and authentically Czech - the German name for it (Buchtel) derives from the Czech name. The etymology of Buchta derives from the verb bouchat 'to slam' referring to the kneading process of dough-making. The Czech word also influenced other languages, entering the Polish lexicon for instance in the 16th century. As a fun fact, řízek is actually a calque of Schnitzel - Schnitzel derives from the Middle High German word snitzel, which is a diminutive of sniz, 'slice'. Řízek is the diminutive form of řez, which likewise means slice.
Vitana is actually the result of the nationalizations under Socialism of the various Graf and Maggi factories that operated Pre-War in Czechoslovakia. And Maggi is similarly as popular in Germany and Austria as it is here in Czechia (people put it on literally everything). Czech and South German cuisine really is basically identical.
@@serebii666 thank you! I was making a Jara Cimrman joke. Any regionalisms before the great central European melting pot of the Austro-Hungarian empire where there were mass migrations through its entirety.
Just to point out, Germany has its own version of a spit cake called Baum Kuchen which is made by a different process by dipping the cooking rod into batter vs wrapping dough around the cooking rod. Thanks again, I find etymology very fascinating.
I thought they were ok when I was there last time. At least they aren't selling them by weight like they do the ham. My daughter is looking forward to her first chimney cake in August
I just didn't enjoy them, no matter where they are from. I thought it was super Instagrammable but the "chimney" is dry and cones will always be superior :P Thanks for this informative video that clears up any debate!
Keep it in Czech! I love eating the treat no matter its origins.
Where is 0:58? Looks amazing
Trdelník is simply not a household name. We all have had grandmas to cook delicious svíčková or guláš (the best was by my grandpa, actually). And we do buy and eat koláče for breakfast. But when or where would I buy trdelník? I only see it in highly commercialized areas, never heard of it in my family...
Trdelník doma neuděláš a v krámu ho nekoupíš, protože je potřeba ho jíst teplý. Takže se hodí do stánků s rychlým občerstvením. Jenže ty za socialismu prodávaly jen standardizovanou nabídku pivo-limo-párek a jiné prakticky neexistovaly, kromě poutí. Párek v rohlíku a hranolky se ve větším začaly objevovat až za perestrojky. Zatímco v Maďarsku, kde soukromá osoba podnikat mohla, byl běžně k dostání v 80. letech u Balatonu a hned u několika stánků.
@@xsc1000 Právě proto, že to není běžný jídlo, který bychom si dělali doma. Kdyby to bylo běžný, prodávaly by se v supermarketu polotovary na domácí dopečení (stejně jako s bagetkama, francouzskýma houstičkama, apod.). Lidi mají doma i stroj na přípravu hot dogů, protože i to je běžnější jídlo, než trdelník.
@@LorcTheBest Ano, domácí jídlo to není. Ale to není ani perník z pouti a nikdo s tím problém nemá.
It is not that Trdelnik itself is a Tourist Trap, but to my opinion there are too many Trdelnik stands and they are too expensive. I tried it once and I did not like it. It smells good, but I did not like the structure of the Trdelnik. Close half of the stands, I would suggest. Standing in line for something like a Trdelnik is a waste of time...
Even Hungarian tour guides advise you not to get Trdelník in Budapest (at least, not with ice cream)
You won't find anything called "trdelník" in Hungary. It is called kürtőskalács.
What's he point? The ice cream melts, and the pastry becomes cold and soaked. It's such a mess by the time you finish it.
Is Gulas and Rizek originally Czech? In the end what people from Prague are enjoyed about is how the old city centre looks like. On every corner Trdelnik shops, low quality souvenir shops, fake hemp CBD shops, overpriced convenience stores, blended with smelly overpriced fake "old cars" and hop on hop off buses. People would like to see the old town to become more sophisticated and the Trdelnik shops are the symbol to fight for this.
I think it's absolutely fine if it's sold in another country but then don't tell people it's traditional food from there! It's like if they sold Chinese food in idk Germany and they called it "tRaDitIoNal gErMaN"😂
Don't ban it!!! BBBYYYEEE
I'm afraid I have to call Janek.
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i was Prague local for decades and i didnt know and still dont know many, if any, local Czechs who not just like, but eat and buy trdelnik. i dont remember any trdelnik in Prague before 90s and mass tourism.
in that regard Hungarian langos is already traditional Czech cos actual Czechs adopted it as their own, its typical street food nowadays, but trdelnik, even if its been well liked in past centuries, never been even just known to Czechs during almost whole 20th century and still isnt liked or merely accepted by vast majority of Czechs today, its still after all those decades 99% only tourist thing.
i'd argue that how unambiguous and rather liked and accepted Vietnamese food, just like Vietnamese minority itself, became Vietnamese street food is on its way to become more traditional than trdelnik( just like kebab or curry wurst in Germany, i even saw one Vietnamese street food stall at Christmas market)
agree. 180 czk is definitely more than double what i would pay, but unless somebody is actively trying to scam you into buying one, this is hardly a tourist trap. you know the price, you see what you're getting - so get one or don't.
i don't understand this obsession with tradition in general. why do you give a fuck? shouldn't it matter more to you how good something is rather than how old?
Let's be HONEST there is only one proper GUIDE in Prague
Trdelník should be banished to Pesky Krummie (aka Cesky Krumlov)!
I think people hate it because those incels from HONEST GUIDE told them to. Literally no other reason to hate it.
Honest Guide hates this video 😂 To be fair, he hates a LOT of stuff 😅
You seem krazy in this video.
Is Chex Mix Czech? HAHAHA--if it is delicious, who cares