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I'm pretty sure fairmont was a boomtown long before morgantown. Just because it is a ghost city these days doesn't mean it doesn't have its own heritage.
Im not familiar with Fairmont history, and I am not saying it doesnt have its own heritage. It is now our suburb though. Boston is full of suburbs full of heritage and as it is NCWV it has a strong hard working culture that is dominant over the rest of the state culture as you see with our food being the state food.
Im not familiar with Fairmont history, and I am not saying it doesnt have its own heritage. It is now our suburb though. Boston is full of suburbs full of heritage and as it is NCWV it has a strong hard working culture that is dominant over the rest of the state culture as you see with our food being the state food.
Let's be clear here though... Morgantown is not the originator of the pepperoni roll. Clarksburg, which has been a much larger influence to NCWV than Morgantown over the last 100 years, is where any and all italian food out of WV came from. Morgantown may be the big time player in the future, but to downplay the importance of the Clarksburg/Bridgeport connection would be doing it a disservice.
Let's be clear here though... Morgantown is not the originator of the pepperoni roll. Clarksburg, which has been a much larger influence to NCWV than Morgantown over the last 100 years, is where any and all italian food out of WV came from. Morgantown may be the big time player in the future, but to downplay the importance of the Clarksburg/Bridgeport connection would be doing it a disservice.
I never said Morgantown was, but guess wat Gustavo Morgantown is in NCWV. This thread is not about Morgantown culture. It is about NCWV culture. Morgantown is the heart of NCWV, and now the heart of all of WV. Im not downplaying any part of NCWV which dominates WV culturally and economically. In politics it will soon control the state and the whole state will see the benefits.
This post is not about Morgantown but NCWV. You are doing the whole state of WV a disservice by trying to use this great news as a way to rant about Morgantown. Dont get me wrong the holler culture of your area is nice in its own way.
Let's be clear here though... Morgantown is not the originator of the pepperoni roll. Clarksburg, which has been a much larger influence to NCWV than Morgantown over the last 100 years, is where any and all italian food out of WV came from. Morgantown may be the big time player in the future, but to downplay the importance of the Clarksburg/Bridgeport connection would be doing it a disservice.
Now that simply is not true. While Clarksburg has the largest number of Italian ethnic people, there are sizable numbers in Marion and Monongalia as well. Always have been. All of North Central West Virginia has numbers of Italian and Spanish heritage people. They came here more than a century ago to work in the mines and glass factories. Their descendants are still here.
I don't know for certain where the first pepperoni roll originated, but my guess would be in the Farmington area of Marion County. The Marion County Italians were more likely to have been working in the mines, and pepperoni rolls were invented to serve as lunches for coal miners. By the way, like pizza, pepperoni is an Italian American invention, not an Italian one. It doesn't even exist in Italy. Pizza does, but it is a very poor copy of American pizza.
Now that simply is not true. While Clarksburg has the largest number of Italian ethnic people, there are sizable numbers in Marion and Monongalia as well. Always have been. All of North Central West Virginia has numbers of Italian and Spanish heritage people. They came here more than a century ago to work in the mines and glass factories. Their descendants are still here.
I don't know for certain where the first pepperoni roll originated, but my guess would be in the Farmington area of Marion County. The Marion County Italians were more likely to have been working in the mines, and pepperoni rolls were invented to serve as lunches for coal miners. By the way, like pizza, pepperoni is an Italian American invention, not an Italian one. It doesn't even exist in Italy. Pizza does, but it is a very poor copy of American pizza.
That's my understanding too, they started in Marion County with the coal miners. But Clarksburg & vicinity probably produces the most pepperoni rolls in the state I would guess, with several Italian bakeries, not to mention the supermarkets that make their own. And you're right, a lot of Italians & Spaniards imigrated to the entire area in the early 1900's, my grandparents included.
They even now "try" (cheap immitation) to make pepperoni rolls here in the Raleigh. You can get a mediocre immitation at Kroger in Garner. They use pepperoni slices instead of sticks (fail) and put a little cheese on the outside. They don't hold a candle to Country Club pepperoni rolls, but at least they put a LOT of pepperoni in them. My point is that slowly but surely, pepperoni rolls are spreading to places outside of WV.
The pepperoni roll was invented by Giuseppe "Joseph" Argiro at the Country Club Bakery in Fairmont, West Virginia, in 1927.[3] The rolls originated as a lunch option for the coal miners of north-central West Virginia in the first half of the 20th century.
The pepperoni roll was invented by Giuseppe "Joseph" Argiro at the Country Club Bakery in Fairmont, West Virginia, in 1927.[3] The rolls originated as a lunch option for the coal miners of north-central West Virginia in the first half of the 20th century.
Wiki is not gospel, but it affirms what I had always heard. My folks, from 1988 - 2004 lived 1/2 mile from CC Bakery, and they kept us supplied, for 15 years, with the best, and original, pepperoni rolls!! Too bad they moved to Florida........
They even now "try" (cheap immitation) to make pepperoni rolls here in the Raleigh. You can get a mediocre immitation at Kroger in Garner. They use pepperoni slices instead of sticks (fail) and put a little cheese on the outside. They don't hold a candle to Country Club pepperoni rolls, but at least they put a LOT of pepperoni in them. My point is that slowly but surely, pepperoni rolls are spreading to places outside of WV.
Well, there are pepperoni rolls (as in authentic North Central West Virginia pepperoni rolls) and there are fake pepperoni rolls like one would find in Raleigh or Garner. Using cream cheese makes it even more unauthentic. What are they trying to do, immitate a Brooklyn bagel too?
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