I Finally Tried My First Taylor Ham/Pork Roll, Egg, & Cheese Sandwich This Weekend And It Was SPECTACULAR
Shutterstock Images.Blogger's Note: My actual sandwich is not pictured because I inhaled it before I even thought to take a picture like an absolute amateur and I would never put ketchup on a breakfast sandwich of any sort because that's even more amateur
There is a constant debate about what is #blogworthy or not around these parts but I had to let it be known that I finally threw some Taylor Ham/Pork Roll on a sandwich with egg and cheese on it after countless people from the Garden State screamed at me to try one after this blog.
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Now this is the thing. I've never been a big ham guy. Not for breakfast, not for lunch, and certainly not for dinner. As you can tell by one look at me, I dig the taste of some salty pork. But ham has never been my thing like bacon or sausage are because it always felt like a meat of the Poors.
However I noticed every single time there was breakfast sandwich banter on the timeline, people from across the Hudson would scream at me with a ton of Jersey vitriol about how I had to try a Taylor Ham/Pork Roll. I would say I'd try it but never actually would because I didn't want to get involved in the battle over the correct name to call it and figured Taylor Ham/Pork Roll was just a fancy name for some sort of fake ass SPAM meat.
However I was at the Jersey Shore over the weekend, I decided to finally try it despite my reservations since being away with kids caused me not to care about life let alone what I put into my body and it was fucking DELICIOUS. I'm not sure how to explain it outside of saying it was like eating extra salty bacon with a kinda similar but also different texture. Jersey gets a bad wrap for a lot of things, some of them justified some of them not. But their unofficial breakfast meat is a Must Try for any out of towners that had me fist bumping like a motherfucker.
Let me clarify one thing however. I am not choosing a side in the Taylor Ham/Pork Roll Civil War. I know people have used this phrase a lot lately, but I need to do more research before I feel comfortable in my decision. I feel like Taylor Ham is a Jersey thing while Pork Roll is a South Jersey/Philly thing. As a Giants and Mets fan, I will likely skew to whatever Philly people don't say since they are the scourge of my sports fandom.
I'm also still a bacon, egg, and cheese guy by default and will put sausage next on my list whenever I eat breakfast around the Casa de Clem. But whenever I am in the breakfast sandwich market while somewhere in the Garden State, I will be getting myself a Taylor Ham/Pork Roll, egg, & cheese and then responsibly betting the BEC on the Barstool Sportsbook since we just went live in New Jersey today. I suggest you do the same.
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