“Our company is 168 years old … we’re older than Coca-Cola, Jell-O, Pillsbury," said Kim Beyer of Taylor Provisions, the Trenton-based company founded by pork roll inventor John Taylor ...
But that’s nothing compared to New Jersey’s own culinary civil war — Taylor ham versus pork roll. While the Devils and Rangers won’t meet in the regular season until Dec. 2, New Jersey’s ...
The story goes that a man named John Taylor created the first pork roll, originally calling it Taylor's prepared ham. He was forced to remove the word "ham" from the name because it didn't meet ...
It's this contentious cured ham that made the pork roll, egg, and cheese a legend in New Jersey. In other parts of the country, a breakfast sandwich typically means egg, cheese, and some sort of meat.
But the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 changed the definition of "ham," forcing the product to be rechristened "Taylor Pork Roll" -- a somewhat less appetizing, yet entirely accurate, description.
Depending on where you order it, the sandwich might be called a New Jersey pork roll or Taylor Ham, that combines the coveted cured meat with eggs and cheese on a roll. To make a pork roll ...
In the past I've posted about grilling Taylor Pork Roll. I love the stuff. It grills up fantastic and really tastes great with cheese on an English muffin. This year we raised the bar a little bit ...