<human>: I have a lot of family in Italy on my father's side. Years ago on my first trip over, we went for pizza with a bunch of family I had never met and who didn't speak any english (just extremely fast venetian dialect (think someone from Barcelona, Spain speaking Italian and you're close)).

Anyway, when it came time to order I asked for a pepperoni pizza in my very broken italian. The waiter gave me a puzzled look but accepted it and moved on to the next person.
Fast forward to the pizza arriving. To my great surprise a great big pizza is plopped down in front of me absoutely COVERED with red peppers. I sat there just looking at it for a few moments and then my dad (who speaks decent Italian) started to crack up. Apparently pepperoni (actually peperone) means red pepper in Italian. Well fuck me....

My dad explained what I had done to everyone and all of the Italians had a good laugh at my expense. The people that owned the place were friends of friends and they brought me another pizza and it was amazing (if you've never had pizza in Italy at a Pizzaria full of locals, you've never had pizza).

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: Don't order a pepperoni pizza in Italy. You'll get a pizza covered in red peppers and Italians will laugh at you.