Is there a difference between salami and pepperoni?

Question

I love eating salami and pepperoni and I
was wondering if they are the same or
different?

I was wondering what the difference is as well if there is one.

Answer 1

A 'salame is a cured (fermented and air-dried) sausage of Italian tradition. The name comes from the Italian verb salare, meaning 'to salt'. In the United States, traditional salami are either imported or referred to as an "Italian Salame", the protected term for salami made in the United States with authentic traditions.

Historically, salami has been popular amongst Italian peasants due to being a meat product able to be stored at room temperature for periods of up to a year, supplementing a possibly meagre or inconstant supply of fresh meat....


Pepperoni 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. It is the most popular pizza topping in North America.

Pepperoni is a corruption of peperoni, the Italian plural of peperone, referring to the bell pepper, so that ordering "peperoni" pizza in Italy is often an unwelcome surprise for North American tourists, not to mention the surprise of Italian tourists in English-speaking parts of the world who would be expecting bell peppers. 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.

Answer 2

Pepperoni Wiki

Answer 3

They are the same. Some people say pepperoni a spicier than salami but actually some salamis are very spicy. Both can be fermented. Don't think about it anymore.

Answer 4

Pepperoni is usually made out of pig. Salami can be made out of various different meats.

Answer 5

Different, pepperoni has about 4 different types of pepper in it,salami is mostly made from pig gut and lots of salt herbs, they are not good for you at all, just pure Fat

Answer 6

Salami is an Italian sausage, often flavored with garlic.

Pepperoni is a highly seasoned, hard sausage of beef and pork.

Both are just as delicious as each other :)

Answer 7

Pepperoni contains Cayenne pepper. That's why it is hot. There are many differrnt salami's, each made with diiferent meat and different spices.

Answer 8

Salame is pepperoni, in Italy pepperoni means peppers, bell pepper or pepperoncine.

There both either uncured or cured. If you want american style pepperoni you simply ask for salame piccante or hot salame

Answer 9

Peperoni contains cracked peppercorns, salami does not.

Answer 10

Different.