Is it like the Italian American “shrimp scampi” where it’s just the words for shrimp in two different languages? My understanding is that “salami” is just the Italian word for cured sausage.
Also, “pepperoni” is an Italian American word for a spicy salami that contains peppers, so it’s just a type.
The honest answer is this: Salami (sliced salami), pepperoni (sliced spicy salami), and sausage (pre-cooked fennel-flavored uncased/crumbled pork sausage).
In the US, “sausage” tends to generically refer to uncured, fresh, or raw sausages, often really meaning “ground meat mixed with herbs and spices sometimes in a tube or casing (but not always).”
Salami, pepperoni and sausage? What makes the first 2 not sausage and what is in your definition pure sausage?
Is it like the Italian American “shrimp scampi” where it’s just the words for shrimp in two different languages? My understanding is that “salami” is just the Italian word for cured sausage.
Also, “pepperoni” is an Italian American word for a spicy salami that contains peppers, so it’s just a type.
lmao, it just keeps going deeper.
Chai tea 🤦♂️
So he actually asked for sausage, cured sausage and spicy cured sausage? Whatever the sausage may be?
I’ll have the spam, spam eggs and spam.
Peperoni in Italian refers peper normally bell peppers, spicy chilly is normally peperoncino.
I guess the waiter understood he meant spicy salame. Also in Italian it is salame not salami.
The honest answer is this: Salami (sliced salami), pepperoni (sliced spicy salami), and sausage (pre-cooked fennel-flavored uncased/crumbled pork sausage).
In the US, “sausage” tends to generically refer to uncured, fresh, or raw sausages, often really meaning “ground meat mixed with herbs and spices sometimes in a tube or casing (but not always).”
Americans came up with the word hot dog then decided sausage should now mostly mean loose ground pork.
In Italy, pepperoni would be peppers then wouldn’t it?
In Italian, ‘peperoni’ are bell peppers – not necessarily bulbous or large, but definitely with zero to negligible heat. Chillis are ‘peperoncino’.
That’s what I said, thanks!