"Czech" food conquers Boston?

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Czech pub fare adds life to Lynn - The Boston Globe  A few short years ago, it would have been hard to visualize anybody opening a café in Lynn that served Czechoslovakian pub food....We moved on to the Sopsky Salat ($7), essentially a Czech version of a Greek salad. Doused with olive oil, it's a generous bowl of cucumbers, tomatoes, green peppers, black olives, red onions, and feta cheese. We found it fresh and filling.

There's only one problem with this quote. It's not called Czechoslovakian food and Šopský salát is originally Bulgarian where it's named after the Shop region. But, having said that, many Czechs may not even be aware of that themselves, and this is the one way to get some vegetables in pretty much any Czech pub (hospoda). But to be fair, as different as Czech and Slovak cuisines are (for instance, no knedlíky for the Slovaks and no halušky for the Czechs), šopský salát is easy to find in restaurants in both countries.

As a sidenote, the actual restaurant only has three vaguely Czech items on the menu amongst the usual globalized fare. And it's name, Gulu Gulu is also a name of typically expatriate hang-outs in Prague.

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