When i was little, my dad cooked Empanadas on the weekends - these delicious pastry shells filled with beef, olives, eggs, and spicy. They are like little warm pockets of heaven cloud in your mouth.
Fortunately, every culture has it's own version of the empanada:
There's the Jamaican pattie:
The Indian samosa:
and the North American ham and cheese hot pocket:
this one says "Alabama" and I don't know what that means but it looks like hell wrapped in shit.
The hot pocket notwithstanding, I am generally thankful for cultural innovators putting delicious ingredients in pockets of crispy / flaky / perfect.
What is your favorite pocketed food?
Would you rather eat the Alabama or your own face?
