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When gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill recently dismissed New Jersey’s beloved pork roll<\/a> as “gross,” she fired up the Garden State’s griddle.<\/p>\n

“Who eats pork roll? I think that’s gross,” Sherill jokingly said during an appearance on the “Zach Sang Show” podcast. “I’ve had this fight multiple times. Nobody wants pork roll.”<\/p>\n

The Virginia-born Democrat’s offhand remark, made during a casual conversation that caught the attention of Republican rival Jack Ciattarelli and went viral on social media, reignited one of New Jersey’s oldest cultural battles: the pork roll versus Taylor ham war.<\/p>\n

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“I think it was a very short-sighted remark,” New York City chef Michael Brafman said, sharing his opinion.<\/p>\n

Brafman spent years cooking in New Jersey before opening The Sandwich Board on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pork roll \u2014 or Taylor ham, depending on which side of the Raritan River you’re on \u2014 is New Jersey’s signature breakfast<\/a> meat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Invented in the 1850s by Trenton businessman John Taylor, it’s a smoky, salty processed pork product fried, sliced and slapped onto an egg and cheese sandwich, according to the website Eater<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I tell people it’s like a smoked salami \u2014 sliced thin and usually grilled into sandwiches,” Brafman said. “In lieu of sliced ham on an egg sandwich, people will get a Taylor ham.”<\/p>\n

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And, yes, there’s a proper way to prepare it, Brafman said.<\/p>\n

“It’s got to have the snip in it, so it doesn’t curl when you cook it.”<\/p>\n

In New York City, bacon, egg and cheese is the breakfast sandwich of choice. But across the Hudson River, it’s pork roll country.<\/p>\n

“Bacon, egg and cheese is the bacon, egg and cheese of New York City,” Brafman said. “Pork roll, egg and cheese is the bacon, egg and cheese of New Jersey.”<\/p>\n

At Brafman’s former New Jersey shop<\/a>, it was non-negotiable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was 100% a staple of the menu,” Brafman told Fox News Digital. “We sold more pork roll than we sold bacon.”<\/p>\n

Pork roll is so popular in New Jersey there’s even an annual festival celebrating<\/a> the meat in Trenton, about 60 miles southwest of the city.<\/p>\n

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But the state is split about what to call it.<\/p>\n

“My understanding is that northern New Jerseyans call it pork roll and southern New Jerseyans call it Taylor ham,” Brafman said.<\/p>\n

The sandwich shop owner said he understands why it’s so beloved, regardless of the name.<\/p>\n

“It’s a great pork product,” he said. “It’s lightly spiced. It tastes great.”<\/p>\n

Brafman said he loves pork roll because he grew up eating salami and eggs.<\/p>\n

“There’s room for all of it,” he said. “It doesn’t need to be so polarizing.”<\/p>\n

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Now that his New York shop has been open for a year, Brafman said he plans to introduce pork roll as a breakfast special.<\/p>\n

“I know there are tons of people in New York [who] know what it is,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Either way, it’s just an awesome egg sandwich<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill recently dismissed New Jersey’s beloved pork roll as “gross,” she fired up the Garden State’s griddle. “Who eats pork roll? 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