Christmas always reminds me of salami and I like it with french bread and butter, and sometimes cheese or a top a ritz cracker. It was something I remember eating as a child with hot chocolate.
So today I was wondering what was the difference between salami and pepperoni--because pepperoni is something I could do without. Here is the answer.
Pepperoni is a corruption of 'peperoni', the Italian plural of peperone, referring to the bell pepper in it.
It is a spicy Italian-American variety of dry salami made of beef, pork and often veal. Pepperoni is a descendant of the spicy salamis of Southern Italy, such as salsiccia Napoletana piccante, a spicy dry sausage from Naples. Pepperoni is frequently used as a pizza topping in American-style pizzerias.
A 'Salame' (plural: Salami) is any cured (fermented, salted and air-dried) sausage made in the Italian tradition. The name comes from the Italian verb 'salare', meaning to salt.
Further, pepperoni is for pizza and salami is for sandwiches. Since I never had pizza until I was about 24, it is understandable why I love the salami of my childhood more.
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