Why do they call them pepperoni if there is no pepper in it?!
Why do they call them pepperoni if there is no pepper in it?
Answers:
good question, maybe its the spice, actually cayenne pepper is used
Ingredients
7 pounds pre-frozen or certified pork butt, cubed, fat included
3 pounds lean beef chuck, round or shank, cubed
5 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons cayenne pepper
3 tablespoons sweet paprika
1 tablespoons crushed anise seed
1 teaspoon garlic, very finely minced
1 cup dry red wine
1/2 teaspoon ascorbic acid
1 teaspoon saltpeter
6 feet small (1/2-inch diameter) hog casings
Maybe this will help:
Pepperoni is a corruption of peperoni, the Italian plural of peperone, referring to the bell pepper. To order the American version of pepperoni in Italy, someone would request salame piccante or salamino piccante (spicy salami, generally typical of Calabria). Throughout continental Europe, peperone is a common word for various types of capsicum including bell peppers and a small, spicy and often pickled pepper known as peperoncino or peperone piccante in Italy and pepperoncini or banana peppers in the US. Unlike in Europe, the English word, pepperoni, is used as a singular uncountable noun.
Pepperoni is a descendant of the spicy salamis of Southern Italy, such as salsiccia Napoletana piccante, a spicy dry sausage from Naples.
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pepperoni...
because it's spicy
Pepperoni is an american translation for the Italian word "peperone", which means "chili" in italian. It has nothing to do with pepper. Pepperoni comes from Italy.
Pepperoni: beef and pork sausage seasoned with pepper.
It's not the pepper, it's the sausage slice. But in the end, it still have pepper in it as well. =)
I don't know.
Eggplants have no eggs...
Put a feather in his cap and called it macaroni!
yes there is...
i am not sure about that