Like the Czechs of central Texas, my ancestors started immigrating to the U.S. from Bohemia almost immediately after the 1848 Revolution [1] resulted in the eli

Like the Czechs of central Texas, my ancestors started immigrating to the U.S. from Bohemia almost immediately after the 1848 Revolution [1] resulted in the elimination of feudalism in Austria. That's a long enough time ago that there was effectively no "conversation" left between my immigrant family and the (few) who stayed behind and somehow managed to survive. Thus I'm a little skeptical that the use of Stubb's BBQ sauce in today's Czech republic is the result of a direct conversation between the immigrant population and the native one. Instead, I suspect instead that Czechs and Americans today have more access to each other's cultures due to the fall of the Soviet Union, and increased globalism. Stubb's has been widely distributed in the U.S. for decades, and in Europe for quite some time, so it's not really surprising that it would make its way to the Czech republic. Funnily enough, a new conversation may now be starting. My great-uncle-once-removed started using Facebook a few years ago to find long-lost relatives in the U.S., and has managed to find one or two in the Czech republic. (Still, almost all of us are in the U.S... World War One was not kind to those who stayed behind.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848