Calzone
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A calzone is an Italian turnover made of pizza dough and stuffed with mozzarella cheese, and sometimes also ricotta cheese, meat, vegetables, etc. The dough is folded over, sealed along one edge and baked in an oven and often served with marinara sauce. Calzones are often sold by the Italian equivalent of lunch counters or street vendors because their folded nature makes them easy to eat standing up or while walking.
Calzones are similar to stromboli, but traditionally the two are distinct dishes.
Calzones are a relative speciality in most Western countries, often being served as a complement to pizza, a similar but much more common dish.
This dish causes some amusing confusion for Central Americans where "calzones" (pronounced cal-ZON-es) are girls' underpants, in written slang.