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What's inside: Owner Maria Florencia fills some selections with family recipes from her native Argentina — but other fillings have more North American flair, like pepperoni pizza and buffalo chicken.—Erin Alberty, Axios, 4 Feb. 2025 Papa John's: The pizza chain's Jack-O-Lantern pizza ($9.99), with ingredients including pepperoni, and black olives, is a large unsliced pizza.—Mike Snider, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024 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 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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