New Jersey Sucks

I grew up in Jersey and moved away 10 years ago. The thing I miss the most are the people. Yes they are rude and tell you what they think. That's exactly what I miss. People across the country pretty much think the same way, it just that everyone else keeps it to themselves. In Jersey you get what you see. There's no filter.

New Jersey Sucks. Then why are we the most populated sate in the US. It's not because it's a horrible place to live my uneducated scumbag. I've lived in quite a few places around th US. I always found NJ and NY people to have the best personalities. It must be the sarcastic sense of humor. GO JERSEY. DON"T MESS WITH JERSEY. If you don't like NJ, then stay out. We don't want your sorry ass!

Here is the history of pork roll. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM PORK ROLL. Quote by Homer Simpson.

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Towns & Tales

The Pork Roll

Any town in New Jersey

Trenton, NJ

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Live in NJ long enough and you’re going to have a Taylor Ham, egg & cheese sandwich. Maybe you call it the Pork Roll. No matter, it’s all the same thing … created and enjoyed in the Garden State.

So where did it come from? And who made the Original? And finally … a question that could divide the state in half … is Taylor Ham and Pork Roll the same thing?

Obviously, The "Original Taylor Ham” comes from the Taylor Provision Company of Trenton, NJ. John B. Taylor, born in 1837, founded the Taylor Provisions Co (as well as the Taylor Opera House). His name is legend in New Jersey and his Pork Roll, branded “Taylor Ham”, has taken over in our vernacular much like “Frisbee” did for the “Flying Disc” and “Kleenex” did to “Facial Tissue”.

The Case for Case's Hickory Smoked Pork Roll, “New Jersey's finest”.

It has been over 130 years since Case's old-fashioned, hickory-smoked pork roll became a favorite meat product in New Jersey homes. The same secret seasoning is used today, plus modern processes of tendering, filtered smoking and flavor-sealing. The tasty time-honored recipe has proven its steadfast goodness through five generations of the Case family. In 1870 when George Washington Case, a farmer and butcher in Belle Mead, New Jersey, began selling a pork roll he made from his own special recipe. At times Mr. Case’s Pork Roll was considered "Boardwalk Famous" and many argue that it is "the Original Jersey Ham!"

Both Case and Taylor Pork Rolls were introduced in the later 1800s. But Hometown Tales research has found that the Pork Roll might have been in existence during the Revolutionary War. Our interview with a resident historian uncovered a salted, cured ham that came in “Roll” so the Continental Army could easily transport it.

We ask New Jerseyans, “Where do you have yours? How do you have yours?”

John Bon Jovi, from the “Playboy” Magazine interview

“The roadside diner right off the circle in Wall Township is a fabulous greasy spoon, one of the real silver-bullet diners. Taylor ham—a pork roll—is a Jersey fixture. Taylor ham with cheese on a hard roll is love. The big question is: ketchup or mustard? Everyone in north Jersey puts on mustard, everyone in the south, ketchup. I’m a mustard guy myself. A cherry Coke is wonderful with chipped ice. Diners are made for Sunday mornings or the day after when you need grease to soak up everything you did the night before. Then you order breakfast and lunch at the same time. That’s the greatest. It cures a hangover.”

So is it the same thing? As long as our favorite diners keep making them, do we care if Taylor Ham and Pork Roll is the same or different?

Sources:

http://home.att.net/~caseporkrollstore/

http://www.interment.net/data/us/nj/mercer/riverview/riverview.htm

Interview with Taylor Provisions Co, Trenton NJ

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Former Jersey wrote:

I grew up in Jersey and moved away 10 years ago. The thing I miss the most are the people. Yes they are rude and tell you what they think. That's exactly what I miss. People across the country pretty much think the same way, it just that everyone else keeps it to themselves. In Jersey you get what you see. There's no filter.

Taylor ham and cheese. Make that two things I miss from Jersey.

I am from New Jersey and I am better than everyone on this board combined

As a former Jersey resident, yes, many aspects of the state make me cringe. It's crowded, a majority of the people are monstrous a-holes, and the car insurance is a crock. There are strip malls everywhere, and very few places where you can go out for a run and get lost for a few hours. Parvin State Park (Vineland) was the place where I could go for a decent run, as long as it was in late October through April. Don't even THINK about the Boardwalk in AC/Longport/Margate unless you REALLY like to be close to too many people. Again, winter is the best time to run. I moved about 9 months ago, and I don't think I'll be moving back soon...

How did NJ end up as America's 5th most livable state.

Link belows.

I don't think that study takes into account the ridiculously corrupt police in New Jersey. Everyone that has spent any time in Jersey has a story about getting ripped off or scammed by those jackasses.

The Princeton area is gorgeous, though!

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ey- we have one of the deepest high school track and field (especially the girls' side) states in America so eat that foo'!

You forgot the more appropriate 'star' for this website....the great Marty Liquori.

Many in NJ have their own cop stories. I had mine a few years ago when a rouge cop went on my property checking my tires to see if they see if they matched up to the tire tracks on one of my neighbors lawn. He them posted his car down the street and would not let me leave my house. I contacted a lawyer who called the the police department. The cop car then disappeared from my neighborhood.

A fews years later I saw this same cop in the newspaper. He was being brought up on federal charges for breaking a guys hand. The guy would not get out of his car on his "own" property so this cop dragged him out of his car and beat the crap out of him. This cop along with 2 other members of the township department are being investigated. The other two are being investigated for beating a guy walking home after his car broke down. What is amazing they are all part of the same small police department!

I agree. I hate NJ. It's a cesspool of corruption and waste.

Why anyone would move here I never know. I can't wait to move out. NJ is as close to communism as North Korea.

funkmaster wrote:

New Jersey Sucks. Then why are we the most populated sate in the US. It's not because it's a horrible place to live my uneducated scumbag

Ummmm. . .sorry, but you're not the most populated sate. Not the most populated state, either. I know NJ is the most densely populated and that's what you're referring to, but I couldn't let that slide.

And the reason? NY and Philadelphia. Take those two away and Jersey would be nothing but a good place to grow blueberries and cranberries.

Yes my friend. You are right. I should have wrote most densley populated. Can you tell mne something smarty pants, what is the formula to find density? With the density mistake cleared up, I rest my case paluka....we\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'re happy right here in the garden. Enjoy wherever you are.

As a New Yorker, I agree that NJ sucks. It's just that about 43 other states, give or take, suck worse.

yea right - all you nj types think your state is the most, greates, smartest....

nj is always telling the rest of the country how great of a place or how wonderful the residents are - unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.

i have never been around so many truly angry people in my live. nj is a third world country

yea right - all you nj types think your state is the most, greatest, smartest....

nj is always telling the rest of the country how great of a place or how wonderful the residents are - unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.

i have never been around so many truly angry people in my life. nj is a third world country inhabited by some very frustrated people who want to get out but never will.

If NJ & the NYC area are so great, how come the residents are so miserable? The reality is it isn't so great but there are jobs in this part of the country and as such, people move here or perhaps stay here out of economic necessity, not choice.

Then there is the superiority complex, if your from this part of the country, you are smarter, more cultured... There was this guy once from Austria who had similair ideas about superiority...

NJ takes the cake for classless, rude people. Even in the "affluent, well educated" areas (including the suburb with the "fancy" mall) you are surrounded by Neanderthals.

And the myth about the work ethic up here - thats a joke. Some of the folks do put in killer hours, not doubt, but the people I have worked with have put in maybe 65%-70% of the hours I worked when I lived elsewhere (don't give me the commuting excuse - it won't fly and don't tell me about snow days - where I came from, 12" of snow meant elementry school started an hour later).

As for the government workers - lazier than I have ever experienced. No pride or work ethic. 30 year UAW employees even put the NJ folks to shame.

Regarding NJ schools, everyone thinks they are so wonderful. I see national rankings and the best ones are not as good as the schools where I am originally from and the taxes here are 2-3 times greater.

By the way, what's with the fake breasts, tight shiny sweatsuits and the inability to communicate with words that have more than two syllables and no profanity? Based on what I have observed, females from NJ believe it is prestigious to present themselves as whores - I just don't get it.

NJ is Americas sewer and the people that respond to this statement emotionally (or more likely with violence - since that is all they know in this part of the world) have never been outside of their little domain.

Keep NJ for yourselves, I hope you never know what you are missing.

WTF, new jersey has the most dangerous city in the country, Cambdenxxxxxxx