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The dish is made of a 16-ounce Angus beef patty, lettuce, tomato, marinara sauce, and melted mozzarella cheese, and sandwiched between two pepperoni pizzas.—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025 It’s known for its pizza bread with a pizza sauce, pepperoni and cheese filling, selling more than 700 a day, VanLue said, at $6 each.—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025 Another best seller is the Aztec pizza made with sausage, onions, mushrooms, pepperoni, shrimp, bacon and jalapenos, according to Varela.—Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025 Look for both deep-dish and thin-crust versions of cheese, pepperoni and sausage-mushroom pizzas.—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 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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