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Those looking for a more traditional pizza option will enjoy The Classic, a red sauce pie with mozzarella, Broadbent bacon crumble, and cupping pepperoni.—Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Oct. 2025 Kids can get cheese or pepperoni pizza, or penne pasta with meat or marinara sauce, with carrots, fruit and a drink.—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025 Sabres goalie Alex Lyon had about as much chance of stopping the shot as an extra-large pepperoni and bacon stood of surviving a Friday night in the Kloke household.—Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025 Some of those menu items include orange chicken with egg rolls, fish tacos, salads, wraps and a beef and turkey pepperoni pizza.—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 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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