Polish smoked pork sausage and stuffed dumplings, typically with potato-cheese, sauerkraut-mushroom or farmer-cheese fillings, served pan-fried with butter and onion. A Buffalo East Side Polish-American staple.

Polish immigrants settled Buffalo's East Side from the 1880s, building the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood and the Broadway Market (1888) as the anchor. The kielbasa and pierogi tradition survives at Wardynski's Famous Meats, Broadway Market vendors and the city's Polish festivals (Dyngus Day on Easter Monday, Polish-American Arts Festival).

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