Taylor Ham. Pork Roll. Some of you know what I am talking about. Most do not. Possibly this is a pregnancy craving. It's certainly not due to a shortage of sodium in my diet. The thought of a pork roll sandwich makes my mouth water. I am not sure if I can find it out here. But I have found some excellent websites about it, which saves me the trouble of starting yet another blog. Thank God.
For the uninitiated, Taylor Ham, aka pork roll, is a regional specialty of New Jersey. I can't even find other East Coasters who eat the stuff. I can't even remember if I really liked it when I still lived in NJ.
You can buy it online at these three places,* but I want to find it locally. One of those places sells Pork Roll ornaments and magnets, just f your i.
*Please, readers, DO NOT get the hot idea that you should order me a 6 lb. pork roll from one of these places. I will get one in the mail, and think, damn, we need a slicer. And we don't have room for a slicer in our apartment. So it will never get eaten and certain people that I live with will make fun of me, and then get annoyed with me that there are like 17 Taylor Ham rolls stashed throughout the house. And my only defense will be, "I like Taylor Ham and I am going to get a slicer next time I have a chance!" which my spouse will not believe, because, come on, Dre, where are we going to put a slicer.
9 comments:
I loved pork roll, as a kid, now I can barely handle salami, maybe you should call foley's and they could send you a bit.
p.s. I hear that in philly they call it scrapple
KMLC
Oh, man, I love Taylor Ham. Remember how good it was at Dick's, with a thick chocolate milk shake? Gram sent me some once, totally randomly, and it sat in my freeezer for a year until I threw it out, sadly. But how was I supposed to slice it?
I don't understand the slicing conundrum, a knife doesn't work? I mean maybe it isn't really thin enough but still
KMLC
I don't think a knife would cut it evenly enough. An even piece of pork roll, or too thick, would drive me slightly berzerkers and would make me not want to eat the taylor ham. And then what would I do with the remaining 5 lb. 10 oz.?
maybe this warrants a jet blue flight, do they go to newark? or is there a shuttle from jfk to the garden state? for the sake of your child, I mean.
KMLC
I too heart the taylor ham with cheese on a hard roll. Remember how they have to cut out little triangles before they fry it up, because it will curl? And a good pickle on the side. Many a night ended, or a day began, eating taylor ham at a diner back when I lived in the dirty jerse.
-MAW
Are you talking about a slicer as in one of those huge metal contraptions they have at the deli that make you think, You could take a finger off with that thing? Is it possible that they sell a smaller slicer, like a sharper version of those contraptions that cut cheese with a wire?
I have just the slicing contraption to cure what ails you. http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=206268&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Doxo%2Bvegetable%2Bslicer%26hl%3Den%26sourceid%3Dgd%26rls%3Dggld%2Cggld%3A2005%2D50%2Cggld%3Aen
you can borrow mine to slice your precious, precious pork roll- I got it for xmas, and it's small.
-Dan
I had cravings for fresh oranges with baby number one, burritos with number two, and pastrami on rye with number three. Canoli's from Feraro's in Little Italy with all three. Now that I think about it, I still crave them now and I have no pregnancy excuse.
I saw you linked to my site and I couldn't resist saying thank you, and a very sharp knife or the little hand slicers from Pampered Chef should slice uniformly enough. Another thought: amazon.com has the little pre-sliced packages. (Yes, since I don't sell those I'd like to tell people where they can get them anyway -- the whole world should share the pork!)
Kate
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