![]() The sandwich is served on a kaiser roll, with ketchup, a few slices of pork roll, and usually an egg. Straight to the plate next to some eggs or pancakes like any other breakfast meat, and the pork roll sandwich. There are two traditional ways this is served. If the notion of eating a food so heavily greasy and salted that it shrinks upon cooking seems grotesque, I call to mind a close cousin of pork roll: bacon. Fear not, however pork roll is not radioactive, although it is far from a healthy choice for your arteries. As the pork roll cooks, it shrinks into the aforementioned symbol of radioactive danger. Standard cooking calls for three notches about a quarter of the way through the slice. ![]() ![]() That is, it will turn into a cup of meat unless you anticipate the shrinking. It will turn into a little cup of meat with a grease pool at the bottom. It needs to be cooked.ĭuring the cooking process, the meat shrinks because of the fat rendering. It is intensely greasy and salty, and unpalatable raw. If anyone offers you a slice of pork roll, they are either unfamiliar with the meat or they simply don’t like you. Outside of the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania area it can also be found in select deli counters, distributed by Boar’s Head.īoar’s Head vendors are trained to offer the prospective buyer a slice of the lunchmeat for tasting purposes. It’s sold both in the bag and in small packages of individual slices. Pork roll (or “Taylor ham”, depending on your locality) is a heavily salted and spiced piece of finely ground ham that is pressed together in a woven fabric bag not unlike canvas. When your breakfast meat forms the symbol for radiological danger, you’re probably in the American northeast.
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