A crimping and cutting assembly (290) includes a first roller (294) engaged with a second roller (314) including a honeycomb pattern of polygonal crimping and cutting members (330-333). Various transversely spaced, internally filled dough ropes (80-82) are fed between the first and second rollers (294, 314), causing each rope (80-82) to be continuously crimped and cut at longitudinally spaced locations to create multi-sided food products (398-400), specifically polygonal food products (398-400) having two to six crimped and cut sides. The ropes (80-82) can permissibly shift or wander laterally during production, resulting in slightly different size or shape food products (398-400), while the honeycomb pattern acts to re-align the ropes (80-82) so as to be tolerant to the ropes (80-82) wandering while still preventing puncturing of the ropes (80-82) which could lead to loss of filling and extended production downtime.
