Fruit-filled empanadas are widely available throughout much of the US Southwest in Ethnic Mexican bakeries and in the bakery sections of large supermarkets in communities with sizable Hispanic populations. Then there's CubanoFlorida", home of the guava empanada, the finger food of the Gods.

Here we see pineapple, pumpkin, apple, peach, occasionally mango, even cherry (a Gringo flavor). I recall one nearby bakery in which the empanadas and the kolaces occupy adjoining display case position.

A blow for cultural diversity!