Bakeries and other food businesses have devised all sorts of in-house shortcuts to distinguish their look-alike wares. The hole in this lobiani khachapuri might appear to have been cut for ventilation, except that its fellow cheese breads, which have different fillings, lack one. I suggest that it's a keyhole that allows bakery staffers to spy the mashed pinto beans inside. Tearing into the khachapuri, of course, affords an even better look, but, as with the pork-filled kubdari style, count on that pizza box to corral stray bits of filling.
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