Pepperoni vs. Sausage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pepperoni and Sausage
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Definitions
Pepperoni
Pepperoni is an American variety of salami, made from cured pork and beef seasoned with paprika or other chili pepper.Pepperoni is characteristically soft, slightly smoky, and bright red in color. Thinly sliced pepperoni is a popular pizza topping in American pizzerias.
Sausage
A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef, or poultry, along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients such as grains or breadcrumbs may be included as fillers or extenders.
Pepperoni
A highly spiced pork and beef sausage.
Sausage
An item of food in the form of a cylindrical length of minced pork or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.
Pepperoni
A slice of this type of sausage.
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Sausage
Used as an affectionate form of address, especially to a child
‘Silly sausage,’ he teased
Pepperoni
A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
Sausage
Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured.
Pepperoni
Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.
Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.
Sausage
A small cylinder-shaped serving of this meat.
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Pepperoni
A hard sausage of beef and pork, highly seasoned.
Sausage
A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.
Pepperoni
A pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage)
Sausage
A sausage-shaped thing.
Sausage
Penis.
Sausage
(informal) A term of endearment.
My little sausage
Sausage
A saucisse.
Sausage
(engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
Sausage
An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
Sausage
A saucisson. See Saucisson.
Sausage
Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
Sausage
A small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon