What's the deal with pepperoni?

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Seems like every season I read about someone getting a "pepperoni bear" or getting half their deer made into pepperoni.

Do people really eat that much pepperoni? I rarely touch the stuff.

I might have eaten one stick of pepperoni in the last 8 years and that was only because a buddy gave me some of his home made duck pepperoni. And it wasn't very good. Tasted like the generic blend of sausage spices Cabela's sells.

I'm not a snacker, I don't eat between meals and I like my game meat to taste like, well, game meat.

So what's the attraction? Do people sit around and eat pepperoni while watching TV? Driving to work? Make sandwiches? What's the deal?
 
Notnpepperoni, but we do eat a lot of summer sausage

High fat meat is what my family focuses on, so it is a good fit
 
I made 12.5lbs of venison pepperoni for the first time a few weeks ago, turned out great.. but gave away 80% of that because I got sick of eating it so often. Everyone I gave them too loved them tho
 
I love pepperoni deer sausage and get a big batch done every couple years and freeze it. I don't eat it every week but a couple times a month or so. I don't use it as a snack but in a meal. It is great with all kinds of things or just by itself.

It sounds like you just don't like pepperoni sausage...........to each their own.
 
I like pepperettes because they are an easy snack to bring camping/hiking, easy to pack every now and then for lunch and also to share with people interested in eating something out of the ordinary that won’t scare them away from game. I LOVE wild game but for me there is only so much ground meat meals I can make.
 
I do like pepperoni on special occasions for a snack, but it's not very healthy for you. Something to snack on while jigging for walleye on a sunny day or while sitting in a tree stand in the cold. Portable, low care food. I appreciate the taste of good game meat in all its various steak/roast/ground/ stewed forms, and also make moderately spiced sausages from game as well, so I only make small batches of pepperoni every second year or so.
 
Some people don't like wild game meat so they find inventive ways to hide the taste.

Having that said, I also do pepperoni, sausage, and jerky in January. Once I have all the good cuts off I know how much pork I need to add to my trim cuts frozen and weighed in the freezer. I've never ground up chops, steaks or roasts. Better than half our meat in a year is game meat. We like it, we were both raised on it.
 
i this year used the front shoulders off my moose and all the trimmings
plus the front shoulders off my deer plus all the trimmings
plus the meat from one wild boar
to get hot pepperoni and honey/garlic sausage made up.
i have over 100lbs of beer,fishing,hunting and work snack sausage which are damn delish

i keep the prime cuts off the animals for steaks and roasts.

my freezers is rammed of goodies

i would of had more if i managed to plug me elk
 
Rugdoc said:
I'm not a snacker, I don't eat between meals
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Rugdoc said:
So what's the attraction? Do people sit around and eat pepperoni while watching TV? Driving to work? Make sandwiches? What's the deal?
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and some eat apples, pears, plums, dulse, solomon gundy, kippers, pepperoni, pig snouts and a million other things between meals and as meals. Congrats for not being a snacker and not eating between meals. Enjoy your Canadian food guide schedule for Friday movie liver and onions.

Funny, I was eating a stick of pepperoni when I read your post.
 
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I get my bears done up for sausage/pepperoni. Not big on bear unless it’s smoked. Nice for sandwiches, or just an easy snack. Moose/deer/elk I just cut and wrap.
 
I just finished making 50lb of Jelopeno cheddar Elk sticks (85% Elk, 15% pork with 10 lb of the cheese mixed in) with hickory smoke and they are awesome. I've had bear sticks but didn't care for the ones I was given to try.
 
Man treats. Problem is making them last. Get a group of guys in the milkhouse for a few pints and out comes the pepperoni, pepperettes, sausage, hot cheeses.
It's almost like a competition to see whose goose pepperettes are edible, whose venison kielbasa was best and on and on.
Lucky to live in an area where there are abatoirs and butchers interested in producing tasty game products.
 
If you don't enjoy peperettes or summer sausage. Try making some breakfast sausage patties or some farmer sausage for the bbq. Great stuff. Sausage on a bun or roast some up in some sauerkraut, sausage and peppers etc... you don't have to make pepperoni make meatloaf or venison burgers. Meat is meat man what ever you do with beef you can do with wild game meat. The only consideration is whether you need to add some fat To offset how lean it is. Enjoy the harvest
 
Rugdoc said:
Seems like every season I read about someone getting a "pepperoni bear" or getting half their deer made into pepperoni.

Do people really eat that much pepperoni? I rarely touch the stuff.

I might have eaten one stick of pepperoni in the last 8 years and that was only because a buddy gave me some of his home made duck pepperoni. And it wasn't very good. Tasted like the generic blend of sausage spices Cabela's sells.

I'm not a snacker, I don't eat between meals and I like my game meat to taste like, well, game meat.

So what's the attraction? Do people sit around and eat pepperoni while watching TV? Driving to work? Make sandwiches? What's the deal?
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Hey guys, what’s the deal with sports? I keep hearing about people watching them on the television and talking about them at the workplace. Do people really spend their time doing that? I only saw some fellows sportsing on the television once in the last 8 years, and that was by accident while trying to tune in billy graham.

Why don’t people fill their time not working with prayerful bible study and more working? What’s the deal?


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Just playing

I snack. I snack like it’s my job. And homemade smokies are better for me than gas station twinkies.
 
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