Savory fillings and the bread that surrounds them

While “runza” is the name of the savory meat-onion-and-cabbage-filled bread torpedo used by the Everett family and found in their Runza restaurants, if you're in Nebraska, you'll also see it called a “bierock” or “bieroc.” The term comes from “pirogi” or “pirozhki” in Russian, referring to another familiar dough filled with savory stuffing — originally meat, onions and cabbage. While Russians and Poles used more of a dumpling [...]