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Campisi’s didn’t offer pepperoni for years, serving a hand-cut salami instead.—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025 The Detroit-style spicy pepperoni, with its goat cheese and hot honey, is dream-like.—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025 The joke set-ups involved Kendrick Lamar, paper straws, and Domino’s new pepperoni pizza perfume.—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025 Choose from The Original BBQ Chicken Pizza, pepperoni or cheese on Thursday, March 13, or Friday, March.—Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pepperoni
Word History
Etymology
Italian peperoni cayenne peppers, plural of peperone, augmentative of pepe pepper, from Latin piper — more at pepper
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