The newest episodes of MTV's Jersey Shore has the cast back in Seaside, New Jersey. This past Thursday's show had "The Situation" taking a break from his job at the t-shirt shop to go get some breakfast. What did he order? A Jersey favorite, a bacon, egg, and cheese on a hard roll. Even at 10PM that sounded so good to me. Why? Cause I'm from JERZEEBABY!
The south has grits, New York has bagels, and NJ has bacon, egg, and cheese or pork roll, egg, and cheese. Hell if you're really hungry you can even combine it all on one sandwich and call it a bellybuster. If you're from North Jersey you might even have it on a bagel.
Growing up in Jersey, I just took pork roll or Taylor ham for granted. We always had it in the house. Whether we put it on a sandwich or used it as a side with some eggs it was always there. We even had it for lunch sometimes. I had no idea what a NJ thing is was until my aunt came to visit from California. As a former Jersey resident she had pork roll fever. What I found out was California didn't have pork roll. She actually took two rolls home with her. Guess you can take the woman out of NJ, but you can't take away her pork roll.
There is even a company that is shipping pork roll,Jersey Porkroll, all over the country to displaced Jerseyans. Good to know if I ever have to move.
All this talk about pork roll made me hungry, thank goodness I live in JERZEEBABY!
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