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Salud is a brewery, and its cheese and pepperoni pizzas are merely very good.—
Peter St. Onge
updated June 24,
Charlotte Observer,
24 June 2026 Try the Miners Beach special, covered in pepperoni, sausage, jalapeños, ham, and pineapple.—
Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
21 June 2026 The event features unlimited pepperoni and cheese pizza, smashed burger sliders, crispy chicken bites, garlic butter pretzel sticks, fries and fruit, and winners can win free Dave & Buster's gameplay for a year.—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
15 June 2026 Its version is a blessed union of hot and pepper hams, Genoa salami, pepperoni, a thick ring of mild provolone, and an Amoroso’s roll.—
Adam Erace,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026 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