Home of the Pepperoni Roll | Fairmont, WV 

Western Marylander here! We have Pepperoni rolls here! We also had many coal mines!

2:26 0.8 miles from my home in Barrackville, WV. A beautiful area with wonderful people, culture, quiet and so dear to my heart. Thank you for visiting.

I remember 1960 Fairmont. Went to College there.

Grew up in Barracksville WV where the covered bridge is.

So, I grew up (20yrs) in Barrackville, I spent a lot of time on that covered bridge, if you climb the right-hand arch, you'll see some writing of mine and friends, one of the miners that survived Monongah was my neighbor Gary Martin

Colasessano's was the BEST in town until they sold. Now like Country Club, they have all gone down hill from the glory days when the rolls used to be amazing.

Someday i see the entirety of the State (WV) becoming a National Preserve... As for pepperoni rolls, try those with slices next time. (Instead of quartered strips/chunks) Abruzzinos used to make the best. Yann's hot dogs in Fairmont was great too. They were so popular people who moved out of state would have rhem shipped to them on special occasions (football games, etc,...)! Skip the ketchup though or you would incur the wrath of the owner! Sadly, the owner passed in 2021 He is an icon in Fairmont history!

pepperoni/sausages baked into bread dates back to Europe and Italy at least 400 years prior to WV being a state. The WV tourism board just made up a lie to post on advertisements to try and get people to come here... No one comes. The best pepperoni roll you can find near fairmont, is actually in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.... Jimmy and NIno's Sunseri in the Pittsburgh Strip... the stuff they try to pawn off on tourists in wv are basically wonder bread and cheap sams club pepperoni.

These pepperoni rolls are a favorite memory from times my family traveled to Fairmont in our old station wagon for a visit to my grandparents, We'd stop by on the way back home for a few warm paper bags of these delicacies. They never made it back to Florida. I loved Fairmont (was born there in the 50's) and am happy with my Appalachian beginnings.

I went to the place where they created the pepperoni roll. I got a bag. I must say - I wasn't impressed. However, there is a place in Thomas, WV that was voted the second best place to get one so I had to go get one and compare the taste...and it was better. You should make sure to get an authentic WV hot dog as well. And if you want to see some covered bridges - the state with the most - go to PA.

Need to do a tour of Clarksburg West Virginia someday!

My first husband was from Barrackville

One thing you failed to point out in Fairmont is all the psychiatrist's offices. Fairmont has a high unemployment rate due to the closure of the coal mines. Everybody there goes to psychiatrists to get meds to forget their problems. You'd think alcohol would be cheaper--unless you have really good medical insurance. As for the invention of the pepperoni bun, I found those two people you were talking to through the window to be refreshingly honest. As they said, the pepperoni bun was invented by (Italian) housewives for their husbands to have lunch down inside the coal mines. There are several bakeries in both Fairmont and Clarksburg which claim to have invented the pepperoni bun. A few of them have an official story on their web sites that tell how they invented it. A few of those own themselves, in that their stories make reference to the existence of the pepperoni bun before they "invented" it. I insist that neither Fairmont nor Clarksburg is the home of the inventor of the pepperoni bun. It was invented in Star City. (Not Morgantown--Star City!) IMHO, Tomaro's pepperoni buns (as they used to be called) are the best. I'm a pepperoni bun purist. Making them with slices of pepperoni is an innovation from the 1980's. The proper way is to use sticks of pepperoni. The pepperoni needs to be so greasy that it turns the bread orange. The addition of things such as cheese is also a 1980's innovation. I want mine with nothing but pepperoni and bread--the way it should be! The name transitioned from "pepperoni bun" to "pepperoni roll" in the mid-1970's.

In your video you show a house I'm seriously considering buying. I'm moving to West Virginia from South Florida

Dude! turn the camera around... we want to see the sights not your face lol.. same thing like the guy who did Brownsville PA, what's the malfunction?

You said Appalachian totally wrong

Fairmont used to be lit.