West Virginia Pepperoni Roll
Pepperoni baked inside a yeast bread roll, grease melting into the dough; invented 1927 by Giuseppe Argiro for coal miners needing portab...
The Stuffed Pocket & Hand Pie
Runza
A runza is sealed before it is baked: soft yeast dough crimped shut around beef, cabbage and onion while still raw, so the bread cooks closed around a wet load that never leaks.
Pasty
Not a sandwich but a hand pie; Cornish meat and potato pastry; sometimes eaten sandwich-style.
North Dakota Fleischkuekle
German-Russian meat pie: seasoned ground beef and onion in a thin dough shell, deep-fried; hand-pie eaten sandwich-style, reflecting Germ...
Manapua
Hawaiian char siu bao (steamed pork bun); Chinese-Hawaiian.
Haitian Patty
Flaky, turmeric-yellow pastry filled with spiced ground beef, chicken, or saltfish; Haitian-American bakery staple in Little Haiti and Br...
Chicago-Style Egg Roll
The Chicago egg roll swaps pork and cabbage for seasoned ground beef in a wrapper fried hard enough to shatter, sometimes tucked into a bun. A corner-store staple with hot mustard and sweet sauce.
Bierocks
Similar to runza; German-Russian stuffed bread roll.