I like to think our festival has something to do with it. In fact, the annual Pork Roll Festival is held in downtown Trenton on Memorial Day weekend, and has gained national attention for its variety of food and entertainment.
And we want everyone to know that this is the home of pork roll. This gives pork roll the distinctive shape of a big, meat flower or wind mill. You can also grill pork roll or steam it, but Miller warns us all to stay away from the microwave. But this sort of sandwich is like art; it can be anything you want it to be.
Miller himself forgoes the egg altogether. I like a couple of very thin slices of pork roll fried on the hard side, on a lightly toasted kaiser roll with some cheddar cheese and some hot sauce. The kitchen at Checkers closes at , so get there early!
While the sandwiches are part of the downtown Trenton diet, up in North Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, the meat is served as a side. And I think it tastes better. Today, the product is made in a similar way, making sure to keep the beloved flavor. Preservatives are used before smoking to help keep the meat as fresh as possible in the packaging before use. Pork roll is simple to cook, typically pan-fried or grilled, with several small cuts made on the outer edges to keep the slices from bubbling in the middle and cooking unevenly.
Officially, is it Taylor ham or pork roll? According to Taylor Provisions, the names are used interchangeably. Erica calls Hoboken her adopted home, after moving from Toronto, Canada nearly three years ago. While there are rumors of Union soldiers carrying pork rolls with them onto the battlefields of the Civil War , the creation of the product was made official in According to every source, a state Senator and well-known businessman by the name of John Taylor from Hamilton Square, N.
Not long after that, Taylor tried to protect his invention from competition by trademarking "pork roll," but failed. Taylor Pork Roll persists as the state's most popular and most prevalent pork roll product. It can be found at almost every bagel shop, deli, or diner in New Jersey in the form of a pork roll, egg, and cheese sandwich.
The packaged meat itself can be purchased at almost any supermarket or corner store in New Jersey, into Pennsylvania, and parts of Maryland. Sold sliced and unsliced, pork roll or Taylor ham is always sliced before it is fried, seared, or grilled. Four to six cuts must be made in each slice, from the outer edges inward, to prevent the meat from curling up while cooking. Before it's cooked, it looks a little bit like Canadian bacon — but don't invoke this comparison in front of anyone from New Jersey.
After it's cooked, the meat is almost always served as part of a breakfast sandwich. It is usually eaten in what is arguably New Jersey's most popular breakfast sandwich: pork roll or Taylor ham , egg, and cheese. This combination can be served on a croissant, English muffin, or stuffed between any two carb-loaded ends, but is most commonly eaten on a bagel another Jersey food staple. Because it's a well-known regional staple, and because of its specificity, it is now sometimes used to elicit nostalgia.
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