New Jersey Is Home To Two Incredible Pork Roll Festivals, Check Them Out

Pork Roll, also known as Taylor Ham in the northern part of the state, is a New Jersey staple. We typically pair it with egg and cheese on a hard roll for breakfast (or lunch) but it goes well with almost anything. The Garden State’s very own spiced meat, it’s a magnificent treat, and it deserves to be celebrated. Lucky for us, New Jersey is home to TWO competing pork roll festivals, both taking place on the same day.

It's all going down in Trenton on May 26th.

One of your choices is the 5th Annual Pork Roll Festival.

The festival will take place at Mill Hill Park at 100 South Broad Street. It will run from 10-7.

The festival will feature food trucks, a pork roll recipe contest, live music, AND a pork roll pageant.

You can compete to be the Pork Roll Queen...

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And you can chow down at Johnny's Pork Roll Truck, Smokehouse Bar-B-Que, DeLorenzo's Pizza, Bacon Me Crazy, and House of Cupcakes, among others.

Kegs of Pork Roll Porter will be there, along with a variety of vendors. Tickets are $5 each or 4 for $15.

Your other option is the Trenton Pork Roll Festival.

This festival takes place at Trenton Social at 449 South Broad Street and runs from 10-10.

Tickets are $5 but you can also purchase VIP tickets for early entry or combo tickets for a bike tour. The event is free for uniformed first responders and military, along with children 12 and under.

There will be a variety of food trucks including Sumo Sushi, Bacon Broads, and Killarney's Publick House. Each vendor will feature a special pork roll dish! Windy Brow Farms will be there with their Pork Roll Ice Cream.

I'm not sure which is more exciting...pork roll sushi burritos, pork roll pizza, or chocolate covered pork roll.

To top it all off, there will be live music all day long!

The hardest choice is deciding which festival to attend. Perhaps both? Do you have a favorite? Feel free to share your opinion in the comments, and let us know if you call it Pork Roll or Taylor Ham. For more on the Pork Roll/Taylor Ham debate, click here.

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