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The restaurant also offers Italian-style pizzas, like margherita and pepperoni, along with sides like tandoori or buffalo wings, mozzarella sticks and jalapeño poppers.—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026 Tender chicken breasts are breaded and baked in marinara sauce then topped with gooey mozzarella and pepperoni (other toppings are welcome, too).—Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026 The loaf is topped with hot honey and features an explosion of pepperoni cups in the middle, along with marinara sauce, mozzarella, and more pepperoni folded into the dough.—Joseph Erbentraut, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026 Cut the pepperoni into small cubes.—Cody Godwin, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pepperoni
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Etymology
Italian peperoni cayenne peppers, plural of peperone, augmentative of pepe pepper, from Latin piper — more at pepper