Funny. "Pepperoni" in German generally refers to chili peppers (though recently I've heard it being used to describe salamis, likely due to US influence). Which

Funny. "Pepperoni" in German generally refers to chili peppers (though recently I've heard it being used to describe salamis, likely due to US influence). Which confused the hell out of me as a child when I heard that the most popular pizza in the US is the "pepperoni pizza". Bell peppers and some other non-spicy peppers are called "Paprika" in German (whereas apparently in English "paprika" refers to a spice made from chili peppers). Amazing how these words tend to evolve to take on entirely contradictory meanings in different languages.