Wikipedia:
The term pepperoni is a corruption of peperoni, the Italian plural of peperone. While in Italian peperoni refers to bell peppers, in Italian-American cuisine the word "pepperoni" evolved to indicate a kind of spicy sausage that actually originated in Turkey, but it goes by another name in Turkish.
Låter iallfall vettigt..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperoni
Och korv på kebaben är kanske inte fel..