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The iconic pepperoni pizza was favored by Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia.—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 Top the sauce with the mozzarella and pepperoni (about ¼ cup of cheese and 5 slices of pepperoni per calzone).—Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 28 Dec. 2024 Popular choices include The Soprano, a pie made with red sauce, Italian sausage, prosciutto, ham, and chili flakes, and The Classic, topped with mozzarella, bacon crumbles, and tons of pepperoni.—Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2024 One of the shop's best-selling pizzas, according to Yelp, is the Loui’s Meat Lovers Pizza, made with sausage, pepperoni, beef, ham, bacon, and extra cheese.—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024 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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