A regional pizza style with cup-and-char pepperoni (the rounds curl up and char at the edges), a slightly thicker crust than New York style and Buffalo Sahlen's-brand cup pepperoni from Western New York.

Buffalo-style pizza developed alongside the city's wings and Italian-American culture, with La Nova (1957) and Bocce Club Pizza (Bailey Avenue, 1959 location) the canonical homes. The cup-and-char pepperoni is the regional signature: the small cured pepperoni rounds curl into cups and char at the edges in the high-heat oven.

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