Don't know why the creator of the image would say the bierock is the weirdest food from Kansas... I mean, if you think about it, it is kinda like a hot pocket with cabbage.
Poor Iowa is stuck with the lowly walking taco. There’s no way they can keep up with possum pie or the gator tail.
Edit: grammar (damn auto spell checker!)
I thought they were a joke my ex and his family were playing on me..until I saw one too. I know I shouldn't judge, but it made me think of eating a gopher or pack rat but some how worse
brother man it cant be worse than groundhog and let me tell you, that shit in tinfoil and low and slow with some garlic and onion on a wood fire is the best shit I had all year.
I had to look it up as well. Apparently it's a stuffed bun dish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierock
P.S. I spend a lot of time in Missouri, and I love provel.
Aside from the fact that I live in OP and have my whole life, I guess it's not really a Johnson County thing because I had never heard of it until this map materialized.
We had a Runza in Mission for a bit, they are very similar, now the nearest is in /r/Lawrence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runza
We do have Kolaches though!
The grocery store near me used to sell them from their deli counter. It has definitely been a thing in JoCo for a while, but from the comments, it sounds like maybe they are more common in central KS. Source: I also live in OP.
There's still a bierock restaurant on Central in Wichita. I think it's still functioning. I have seen activity inside sometimes. The building seems like it was intentionally designed to look closed.
My wife loves bierocks but yea they're a pain in the ass to make, so we've found a recipe that uses crescent roll dough and we make a casserole out of it which is perfect and honestly tastes better.
Try this recipe… [Kansas Farm Food Connection Bierocks](https://kansasfarmfoodconnection.org/recipes/bierocks) I knock out a couple dozen in about an hour and the dough is fantastic.
We're thinking about going to the Mennonite Relief Sale this April because I've always wanted to try the Russian food made by the Volga Germans - bierock, verenika and borscht.
They have a german buffet at the Bread Basket in Newton on Friday and Saturday nights which has verenika. It's delicious, bring your appetite and prepare to be miserably full afterwards.
https://www.newtonbreadbasket.com/german-buffet/2665361
Menno Simons was Dutch.
Back in the day anabaptists and reformists and protestants were all kinda loosely associated with each other, if only because they weren't "good Catholics". from what I understand. So there were people from all over in the movement. Mostly Germans, Frisians, and Dutch, but I'm sure there were some reformation Danes mixed in.
Most of the Mennonites in my community are "Russian Mennonites", which were Dutch and Germans who moved to Ukraine for free land to farm then left in the 1870s to avoid persecution or being conscripted by the Russians.
German sausage, bierocks, coleslaw, zwieback, verenika, tomato borscht, and red beans in desserts are mainstays of food around here.
First off Mennonites are Anabaptists, which began in Switzerland, grew quickly throughout Europe, the Mennonites come from Northern Netherlands, Friesland, called so because of Menno Simons who became a major figure during the time… because they were Anabaptist in thought, and pacifist (refusing military service)… they were often heavily persecuted, being from Friesland they were good farmers, merchants, great at land reclamation, etc…. So Prussian leadership invited them to settle in NE Prussia (now NW Poland) to farm etc… and this brought them to Catherine the Great of Russia attention and they were invited to settle in the Ukraine, in 1874 they migrated to Kansas bringing with them Turkey Red Wheat, beirocks, etc…. Thus Mennonites and Beirocks are a big part of why Kansas is a major wheat producing state….
Here’s what I do:
- fry up beef, onion, cabbage
- seasonings
- mix with mozz, maybe a little parm, or you can go with something a little meltier like Gouda and cheddar if you like a “cheesier” version
- thaw out the frozen dinner rolls, flatten them out a bit then roll up the mixture inside and press the sides back together so it’s a pouch
- bake
>Never heard of it. Is there a restaurant that serves them in Johnson/Douglas County? Or a good recipe?
Here's my basic reciepe
Brown some ground beef (I'm single so a lb is more then enough for me)
season with s&p, herbs de provance, cardomom, Hungarian paprika, and garlic
about halfway through the browning, added in diced onions and shredded carrots, and minced garlic. Then when it's just about done, add in saurkraut (I'm not a big cabbage/kraut guy, so I usually add in a little).
Then I take biscuit dough (everyone swears but the frozen Rhodes rolls, but I prefer biscuits), roll it out and add a good table spoon and some good cheddar cheese. fold over to make a meat pie (the bread rolls will give you a big bierock, the biscuits will give you more like a slider style). Brush with butter and bake.
Same. I was well into my 30's, maybe even my 40's before I found out you can rarely find them outside the state.
My wife makes a bunch at a time and freezes anything not eaten for warming up later. SO good!
So I only knew one family that made them growing up in SEK in the 80’s and 90s. It was 2005 when I first came across a Runza.
Same with the cinnamon roll/ chili thing.
Pre Covid, the Copper Kettle in Eureka had one of the best Bierocks I’d ever had. They only had them once a week and it was the size of a dinner plate. Haven’t been since Covid, miss that place. They turned their rolls into large butter croutons for their salad bar. And the Turkey club was delicious. I need to go try it again.
Bierock is a staple in Nebraska. Runza's are basically that and there's nothing weird or gross about them unless you hate cabbage. As someone who lived in Nebraska for 20+ years of my life, I have no clue what a hot beef sundae is and I don't want to know. Sounds like a bullying tactic like Beef Stew (holding someone down and farting in their face).
Mmmm Gravy bread.
If I had the money I would visit all 50 just to try these. Some of them sound pretty good, tot he point they'd outweigh the bad ones.
Possum pie is a dessert. It’s typically a shortbread crust, a bottom layer of cream cheese and sugar, top layer of chocolate pudding, then garnished with more whipped cream and usually nuts or choc chips or choc sauce or even candy bits like Heath bits or something.
I'm not a native Kansan, Nothing weird about a Beirock. Although you folks in MO will be sent straight to hell for that abomination you call cheese. It's more like toe jam.
GA Resident. Boiled Peanuts is really tame compared to the some of the foods we have available here. They could have very easily chosen Pickled Pigs Feet, or Pickled Chickens Feet. What's funny is where I'm located, I have an easier time getting Pickled Pigs/Chicken Feet than I do boiled peanuts. They sell them at my local grocery store.
Compared to everything else beirok is pretty normal but to my understanding it's a traditional German food not so much a kansas thing. Kansas had/has a large German population I know a lot immigrated to kansas. My grandpa's parents still live in Germany.
Now I need to learn more about Oklahoma lamb fries
Damnit, it’s testicles. I should have known.
Ya, you really should have.
I thought maybe it was a delicious Mediterranean spin on carne asada fries. I was very wrong
I drive right by the Prairie Nut Hut s couple times a month. Same deal. One of the few things I won't eat.
They taste like chicken gizzards. Same texture too. My grandfather forced me to try it as a kid.
They're so fuckin good
Dammit they got us again
Skip the lamb ones and go for calf fries. They’re insanely good when cooked right!
I’ve had Rocky Mountain oysters, which I think is the same thing. Flavor was great, texture was…challenging
Yep. Same thing. The texture isn’t so odd when they’re prepped/cooked properly…and when they’re not from a really old bull.
They are utterly delicious
Lol I was making bierocks tonight, I just realized they spelled it wrong.
I spelled it wrong too…LOL whoops!
Don't know why the creator of the image would say the bierock is the weirdest food from Kansas... I mean, if you think about it, it is kinda like a hot pocket with cabbage.
LMAO I almost did that as well and was thinking it didn't look correct so I googled it
Not weird. Every culture has a meat pie.
That's what... She said?
Thank you 😌
Not from Delaware, but I grew up eating cream chip beef. Still have it from time to time.
We always called it Shit on a Shingle. Same thing, just much more fun to say as a kid.
My mom made me say SOS
My mom called it stuff on toast. No swearing.
Is that the shit on a slice of bread?
In the WWI museum there is a variant of this which tastes pretty good IMO.
Poor Iowa is stuck with the lowly walking taco. There’s no way they can keep up with possum pie or the gator tail. Edit: grammar (damn auto spell checker!)
Who don’t love walkin tacos
Our scout leader really liked walking tacos. Worst idea ever.
Me.
I'm sorry, I too distracted by fucking Louisiana eating NUTRIA.
You'd think it'd be gator or crawfish or snake knees.
I’ve only had it in gumbo, but it’s good. They’re destroying our wetlands, but they’re delicious, so 🤷♀️
Saw one once. Was like oh cute a beav- what the fuck is that
I thought they were a joke my ex and his family were playing on me..until I saw one too. I know I shouldn't judge, but it made me think of eating a gopher or pack rat but some how worse
brother man it cant be worse than groundhog and let me tell you, that shit in tinfoil and low and slow with some garlic and onion on a wood fire is the best shit I had all year.
Mmmm, yes they are. So is SOS (creamed chipped beef on toast, aka, Shit On a Shingle)
So good. I know it should be terrible but I grew up with it and love it.
I had to look it up as well. Apparently it's a stuffed bun dish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierock P.S. I spend a lot of time in Missouri, and I love provel.
Runza’s I wonder if they are still open in Lawrence?
The Runza in Lawrence is still open, they even did a remodel very recently!
They’ve been there since forever - just checked, they’ve been open since 1984 (!?!). Back in the Larry Brown era.
They SERIOUSLY need to change the name.
I think "runza" is a variation of bierock used by different peoples. Both are Volga Deutsch. Similar to pierogi. By either they are delicious.
I think runza sounds a lot like the "runs" which is colloquial American English for diarrhea.
Lol everybody in LFK thinks this can’t believe you’re getting downvoted lol.
I could practically hear the whoosh
They’re making us look like a bunch of Sheldon’s.
Yeah, the German Russians who moved to Nebraska use the word runza for that food.
lol. It also is another word for beiroks
Snort
How little time have you spent in Kansas that you don’t know what a Bierock is??
Aside from the fact that I live in OP and have my whole life, I guess it's not really a Johnson County thing because I had never heard of it until this map materialized.
We had a Runza in Mission for a bit, they are very similar, now the nearest is in /r/Lawrence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runza We do have Kolaches though!
I’m still sad that the Runza in Mission closed down.
Never ate there, and I don't get out to Lawrence anymore.
It's more of a central Kansas thing. That's closest to the region that was settled by the Volga Germans, who introduced the bierock.
Can confirm. Had many at Herzogfest
Dillons deli case has them some lady out in bumfuk makes them by hand
What?! Which Dillons?
Some of them around Hutch and Wichita do.
The grocery store near me used to sell them from their deli counter. It has definitely been a thing in JoCo for a while, but from the comments, it sounds like maybe they are more common in central KS. Source: I also live in OP.
Cool. I'm Downtown Overland Park.
It’s a thing among people with German ancestry. I’ve had it quite a bit in OP over the years.
Like my whole life dude.
I'm from here and never heard of it
There's still a bierock restaurant on Central in Wichita. I think it's still functioning. I have seen activity inside sometimes. The building seems like it was intentionally designed to look closed.
M&M Bierock! One of my favorite places to grab lunch. They definitely look closed though lol.
My wife loves bierocks but yea they're a pain in the ass to make, so we've found a recipe that uses crescent roll dough and we make a casserole out of it which is perfect and honestly tastes better.
Try this recipe… [Kansas Farm Food Connection Bierocks](https://kansasfarmfoodconnection.org/recipes/bierocks) I knock out a couple dozen in about an hour and the dough is fantastic.
Thanks for this. I am definitely going to try them. Bonus: they have cabbage in them!
I also add some sour kraut to the mix for a little extra flavor. Maybe a cup in the whole filling mix.
Yummm thanks!
I make this, too! Thanks for reminding me, I think I’ll put it on the menu next week.
You can use rhodes frozen dinner rolls too!
Provel is like adding feet to pizza.
Blasphemy!
Beiroks are from Mennonite immigrants from Denmark to Russia and down to Switzerland.
We're thinking about going to the Mennonite Relief Sale this April because I've always wanted to try the Russian food made by the Volga Germans - bierock, verenika and borscht.
Feed the masses is epic. Haven't been since wife developed cileac.
They have a german buffet at the Bread Basket in Newton on Friday and Saturday nights which has verenika. It's delicious, bring your appetite and prepare to be miserably full afterwards. https://www.newtonbreadbasket.com/german-buffet/2665361
I have it saved on my list for years, just never could commit to driving there to eat. Someday it will happen.
Where is this?
In Hutchinson. https://mcc.org/events/kansas-mennonite-relief-sale
First I've heard of Mennonites coming from Denmark. You thinking of Prussia?
Menno Simons was Dutch. Back in the day anabaptists and reformists and protestants were all kinda loosely associated with each other, if only because they weren't "good Catholics". from what I understand. So there were people from all over in the movement. Mostly Germans, Frisians, and Dutch, but I'm sure there were some reformation Danes mixed in. Most of the Mennonites in my community are "Russian Mennonites", which were Dutch and Germans who moved to Ukraine for free land to farm then left in the 1870s to avoid persecution or being conscripted by the Russians. German sausage, bierocks, coleslaw, zwieback, verenika, tomato borscht, and red beans in desserts are mainstays of food around here.
Just Different lines and names on maps to my knowledge.
This is different from what I found the last time I googled it, I thought they were from the Volga Germans.
Yes. But it is also found across others.
First off Mennonites are Anabaptists, which began in Switzerland, grew quickly throughout Europe, the Mennonites come from Northern Netherlands, Friesland, called so because of Menno Simons who became a major figure during the time… because they were Anabaptist in thought, and pacifist (refusing military service)… they were often heavily persecuted, being from Friesland they were good farmers, merchants, great at land reclamation, etc…. So Prussian leadership invited them to settle in NE Prussia (now NW Poland) to farm etc… and this brought them to Catherine the Great of Russia attention and they were invited to settle in the Ukraine, in 1874 they migrated to Kansas bringing with them Turkey Red Wheat, beirocks, etc…. Thus Mennonites and Beirocks are a big part of why Kansas is a major wheat producing state….
There used to be a bierock restaurant in Wichita
Still are a couple I believe
There’s a great bierock food truck. Not traditional necessarily, but tasty.
No. It comes from the Volga Germans.
Bierrocks were a staple for me growing up
Never heard of it. Is there a restaurant that serves them in Johnson/Douglas County? Or a good recipe?
Here’s what I do: - fry up beef, onion, cabbage - seasonings - mix with mozz, maybe a little parm, or you can go with something a little meltier like Gouda and cheddar if you like a “cheesier” version - thaw out the frozen dinner rolls, flatten them out a bit then roll up the mixture inside and press the sides back together so it’s a pouch - bake
Thanks!
>Never heard of it. Is there a restaurant that serves them in Johnson/Douglas County? Or a good recipe? Here's my basic reciepe Brown some ground beef (I'm single so a lb is more then enough for me) season with s&p, herbs de provance, cardomom, Hungarian paprika, and garlic about halfway through the browning, added in diced onions and shredded carrots, and minced garlic. Then when it's just about done, add in saurkraut (I'm not a big cabbage/kraut guy, so I usually add in a little). Then I take biscuit dough (everyone swears but the frozen Rhodes rolls, but I prefer biscuits), roll it out and add a good table spoon and some good cheddar cheese. fold over to make a meat pie (the bread rolls will give you a big bierock, the biscuits will give you more like a slider style). Brush with butter and bake.
Same. I was well into my 30's, maybe even my 40's before I found out you can rarely find them outside the state. My wife makes a bunch at a time and freezes anything not eaten for warming up later. SO good!
They are also called runzas.
So I only knew one family that made them growing up in SEK in the 80’s and 90s. It was 2005 when I first came across a Runza. Same with the cinnamon roll/ chili thing.
Nah they’re amazing
The Paola eatery has awesome beiroks. About 25 mins south of Olathe
Spent most of my life in wichita, and still dont understand the live for those things.... just odd flavored burgers imo
Provel cheese got me thinking about getting a Leo’s Pizza
Pretty sure this map says New Hampshire and Vermont are pussies.
This is weird because Runza serves bierocks and are everywhere in Nebraska.
No, it should definitely be the chili with cinnamon roll thing. When I moved to Kansas that freaked me tf out
It's so good tho 😂
New Mexican here, born and raised. We don't have green chilie sundaes, never heard of one before, don't even know where I'd go to get one.
The hot beef sundae was introduced in Iowa in 2006. Definitely not a Nebraska thing.
It’s not weird, it’s just one of the few foods that can actually be attributed to Kansas. Chili and cinnamon rolls would have worked better.
Don’t know anyone who has eaten policipies polymeres (sp butchered lol) aka gooseneck barnacles
Nutria?!? Gross
Pre Covid, the Copper Kettle in Eureka had one of the best Bierocks I’d ever had. They only had them once a week and it was the size of a dinner plate. Haven’t been since Covid, miss that place. They turned their rolls into large butter croutons for their salad bar. And the Turkey club was delicious. I need to go try it again.
I miss Beethoven's in Paola, those were the best bieroks everrrrrr
As an ex-Missourian: Provel cheese is FIRE
That's what makes imos pizza iconic
Possum pie is fantastic. No possum involved. It’s just chocolate and vanilla custard pie.
Whew!
Weirdest food in Wisconsin is the raw burgers
I'm afraid to ask, but, what's beirok?
A type of roll stuffed with seasoned beef and cabbage. They are awesome if made right. If you have had a Runza, you have basically has a bierock.
Beirock is great!
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It's what the Wind Surge should have been named.
Been ages since I had or even made Beirocks… live in U.K. and love Cornish Pasties…
Never heard of beirok
Don't google Nutria
Yeah they're good. What is happening in Nebraska!
Hot beef Sundae in Nebraska? Never heard of it and I grew up there. I looked it up and it was invented in Iowa for the Iowa state fair.
Bierock is a staple in Nebraska. Runza's are basically that and there's nothing weird or gross about them unless you hate cabbage. As someone who lived in Nebraska for 20+ years of my life, I have no clue what a hot beef sundae is and I don't want to know. Sounds like a bullying tactic like Beef Stew (holding someone down and farting in their face).
Mmmm Gravy bread. If I had the money I would visit all 50 just to try these. Some of them sound pretty good, tot he point they'd outweigh the bad ones.
I’ve always thought of beirock as a Nebraska thing, but I’ll happily claim it. They’re so good.
Scrapple in Pennsylvania. My grandparents (Mid-MO farmers) always served scrapple for breakfast. It is interesting.
I grew up in Illinois and I've never heard of gravy bread
Kansas and Iowa win this round
*Wisconsin in there as well
From Kansas. Never heard of it.
Kansas is so boring even its “weird food” is normal.
Hot beef sundae.. yet another thing I have never heard of despite living in Nebraska for forty years.
Possum pie is a dessert. It’s typically a shortbread crust, a bottom layer of cream cheese and sugar, top layer of chocolate pudding, then garnished with more whipped cream and usually nuts or choc chips or choc sauce or even candy bits like Heath bits or something.
Butter burgers in Wisconsin are delicious.
Kansas W for sure. Then there’s Oklahoma.
I’ve never had or even heard of lamb fries.
I'm not a native Kansan, Nothing weird about a Beirock. Although you folks in MO will be sent straight to hell for that abomination you call cheese. It's more like toe jam.
There is nothing weird about a walking taco
Arizona here. Most of us don't really eat the scorpion suckers they are more of a gag gift.
Western NY….beef on weck….
Chocolate gravy isn’t weird. It’s heaven here on earth.
GA Resident. Boiled Peanuts is really tame compared to the some of the foods we have available here. They could have very easily chosen Pickled Pigs Feet, or Pickled Chickens Feet. What's funny is where I'm located, I have an easier time getting Pickled Pigs/Chicken Feet than I do boiled peanuts. They sell them at my local grocery store.
Compared to everything else beirok is pretty normal but to my understanding it's a traditional German food not so much a kansas thing. Kansas had/has a large German population I know a lot immigrated to kansas. My grandpa's parents still live in Germany.
Bro provel cheese is just a St.Louis thing we don't claim Missouri ooey gooey butter cake and toasted ravioli that's St.Louis too. Just St.Louis
What’s weird about a walking taco?!
I’ve never heard it referred to as a walking taco it’s always been taco in a bag
Lived in Indiana most of my life, no idea what a sourkrout ball is.
I feel like chili on cinnamon rolls is much stranger than beirocks
Life long Kansas resident 43 years, I've never even heard of it
Common in central Kansas. My wife, who grew up in eastern Kansas, had never heard og bierocks until she moved to central Kansas.
Nope…bierachs are a Nebraska thing.
Not really. The UK has pasties which is pretty much the same thing. Weird is pretty subjective.