Country Club Bakery

[1] The pepperoni roll is a snack popular in West Virginia and some nearby regions of the Appalachian Mountains.

Variants now popular statewide.”[4] The original location where the pepperoni roll was invented is on Robinson Street, Fairmont.

[6][7][8] The rolls originated as a lunch option for West Virginia coal miners in the first half of the twentieth century.

A large number of Italian immigrants moved to North Central West Virginia looking for work in coal mining jobs.

These foods and the pepperoni shared a similar purpose; they allowed a miner on a break from a tiring and dirty job to eat a full meal with less problem.