Subject: A theory.
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Posted on: 2013-07-24 18:51:00 UTC

One of the flavors of pizzas you can find in almost every pizzeria here in Italy is peppers and sausages or salami. (Which, on an unrelated note, is Italian too. Althought "salami" is plural. The singular is "salame")

So, it was probably one of the first toppings imported in America, an Americans heard "peperoni" and liked the word. They decided to use it for the toppings, only that they accidentally used it for the sausages instead of the peppers.

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