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Post by puppie96 on Dec 6, 2007 0:00:35 GMT -5
YUMMMM!!!!!!
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Post by Lady B on Dec 6, 2007 9:24:19 GMT -5
OMG...That's Taylor Pork Roll!!!!!! That is without a doubt THE BEST Pork Roll in the WORLD...maybe even the UNIVERSE!!!!!!!! Oh the memories that brings back!!!! We used to get Taylor's Pork Roll sandwiches on the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ. What an incredibly scrumptious treat: a perfectly cooked Pork Roll sandwich washed down with ice cold Birch Beer (which I am also madly craving now!!!!!!) Oh the memories! My salivary glands are working overtime! (It's pretty amazing what just a photo can do for our gastronomic memories!!!! ;D) If any of you are lucky enough to be able to try some of this mouthwatering delight--please, take a bite for me!!!!! I have to say it, Debby: Thanks for the Memories Lady B
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Post by Tonyterner on Dec 6, 2007 9:57:36 GMT -5
I'm with Lady B here. I grew up getting those sandwiches in Ocean City too. One of my favorite sandwiches is pork roll with american cheese and hot mustard on a kaiser roll. Not many things taste better than that. I take it you can't normally get it there. I get this at the supermarket every few weeks. I have my 6 years old daughter in love with the stuff too. My wife won't touch it though, says it smells like dog food. LOL
Its funny I was just trying to descibe pork roll to weeshan the other week. I couldn't come up with a good description of the flavor. LOL
Looks like you hit the motherlode there puppy. LOL Time to get out the frying pan and start cooking.
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Post by texaswoodie on Dec 6, 2007 10:35:03 GMT -5
Do you guys know what that stuff is made of?
Curt
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Post by Lady B on Dec 6, 2007 10:39:54 GMT -5
Pigs...and stuff they roll in. That's why it's called Pork Roll!!! ;D
This is getting really bad now...my stomach keeps growling (or is that oinking) everytime I look at that pic!!!
Lady B
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Post by Tonyterner on Dec 6, 2007 10:54:03 GMT -5
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Post by stefan on Dec 6, 2007 11:37:36 GMT -5
must be a Jersey Thing?
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 6, 2007 12:39:21 GMT -5
I can't live without it. When I moved to St. Louis from Baltimore I kept trying to find it in the supermarkets and couldn't understand the blank stares when I asked the management where it was!! I had no idea it was regional. Since then I import it on every trip to the midatlantic and plead with any visitors to bring me some. My frozen stash is depleted so I finally gave in and ordered myself a present online. Cheaper if they put more in the FRB, so .... This whole exercise has really messed me up, now I can't get Tastykake Cakes and Pies out of my head (butterscotch krimpets, filled chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting). Curiously enough, I found they had Taylor ham at the Albertson's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming!
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Post by beefjello on Dec 6, 2007 12:42:32 GMT -5
I never heard of it either but it sure sounds good! Cute pic Pup
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 6, 2007 12:55:40 GMT -5
beef, you should have seen the one with one of the pups checking out the ham. It looked a bit obscene.
I have also been known to bulk order Mary Sue Easter Eggs (vanilla and choc butter cream only. The peanut butter ones are sucky.)
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 6, 2007 12:59:41 GMT -5
Just rereading...I remember the boardwalk stand in Wildwood. Also there was one in Cape May. Birch beer was a family fave, but people were squirreley about which brand. I also never knew that pickled beet eggs were a local thing until I noticed midwesterners giving strange looks to my purple eggs. By way of explanation of some of this, both of my parents are Shamokin High grads. And Tony, Dad went to Lehigh -- class of '49.
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Post by chassroc on Dec 6, 2007 13:02:15 GMT -5
Growing up in Jersey, we called it Taylor Ham. It's a gormet delicacy fried too.
csroc
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Post by Lady B on Dec 6, 2007 14:32:29 GMT -5
OMG...Our highschool cafeteria used to buy whole layer cakes from Tasty-Kakes--the bakery was in North Philly and the entire surrounding neighborhood smelled like Heaven. You can buy some of the Tasty-Kake products here in Florida but the real deal still is best in Philly.
And pickled eggs...I need a fix!!!!
There was also a fish market in Philly called Uries...I have tried and tried to find either the recipe [or the actual product] for their Chow-Chow. Chow-chow here in the South has corn in it. Urie's had pickled cauliflower and carrots and pickles in a mustard sauce and OMG it was GOOD!
And now I am DYING for a Hoagie because NO ONE ELSE in the whole world makes hoagies like they do in Philly and the surrounding burbs.
And now I miss Horn and Hardart's -- where you could put coins in a slot and get the most delicious meatloaf, or pot pie, or bread rolls, or hot chocolate, or frosted orange cupcakes.
I miss home...and sadly many of the things I miss most are no longer there to be found.
But I still have those great memories! Taylor Pork Roll; Tasty-Kakes; Birch Beer; Pickled eggs; Chow-Chow; Hoagies; and Johnson Brothers' Caramel Popcorn...all without equal!!!
I think I've gained five pounds because of this thread!!!!
Lady B
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 6, 2007 14:36:08 GMT -5
Utz Potato Chips. Wise aren't bad either.
Clap, clap, clap and yum yummy yummy, Tastykake Cakes and Pies, (etc)
I drive people nuts singing the old local commercial jingles....
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Post by texaswoodie on Dec 6, 2007 18:10:54 GMT -5
Tony didja notice there are no ingredients on that page? This ole Texan won't be eating any of it. Curt
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 6, 2007 18:56:33 GMT -5
Chemicals. Probly why midatlantic folks talk funny and have such endearing personalities. Also, legend says if you eat enough of it sex organs will start growing out of your head.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2007 22:11:54 GMT -5
I am one of those that really doesnt care what the ingredients are as long as it tastes good to me.
Nobody really knows whats in hot dogs either but we still eat those. ;D I like SPAM too.
Shannon
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Post by Tonyterner on Dec 7, 2007 10:57:15 GMT -5
Just rereading...I remember the boardwalk stand in Wildwood. Also there was one in Cape May. Birch beer was a family fave, but people were squirreley about which brand. I also never knew that pickled beet eggs were a local thing until I noticed midwesterners giving strange looks to my purple eggs. By way of explanation of some of this, both of my parents are Shamokin High grads. And Tony, Dad went to Lehigh -- class of '49. Puppy, Ah pickled eggs. I get them once or twice a week at the deli across the street from where I work. That has to be the absolute best way to eat an egg. And Tastykakes, well you can't find a better baked good than peanut butter Kandy Kakes. Little discs of fluffy cake with peanut butter encased in chocolate. Mmmmmm. I had one of those last week for the first time in ages. I know where Shamokin is but have never been there. That's coal country right? Lady B, I've never had Chow Chow with a mustard sauce. I actually bought some of that this week at a local mart that makes their own. And what about a real Philly soft pretzel. You know the kind, cold, salt melting on top from the humidity, sits in your belly like a big chunk of agate. Dang now I'm hungry for one of those too. And how about scrapple, the king of junk meats. Fry it up in thin slices so its crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Mmmmm. After this thread I don't see how I can ever move a way from this area. Curt, just cause you don't know what's in it doesn't mean it can't taste good. Of course it has chemicals in it, its from Jersey. LOL
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Post by chassroc on Dec 7, 2007 12:03:56 GMT -5
Stefen said: must be a Jersey Thing? Answer...definitely Jersey and some of the outlying hinterlands around Philly and NYC
Those tastycakes were might good too and SABRETTS are the best hotdogs on the face of this earth, simmered by a street vendor with red onion sauce.
My Philly friends voted for Scrapple, but I never had the pleasure.
csroc
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Post by puppie96 on Dec 7, 2007 12:14:15 GMT -5
The outlying hinterlands include Baltimore. Did I mention I found Taylor Ham at Albertson's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming?
I can't do scrapple. I'm pretty sure it's made out of the scraps on the floor that get swept up along with sawdust. That accounts for the texture.
I forgot about KandyKakes, those are great just not the peanut butter ones, the chocolate ones. Shamokin is in the antharcite regions of the east, up there with other thriving metropolises like Sunbury, Ashland, and the late Centralia. There's a place in downtown Shamokin with the best coney island hotdogs in the world. And every summer I make pickled beets and put the eggs in with. My midwestern bred husband has learned to love them. Hoagies: another thing I have to import from the east is the hot pepper spread you put on them.
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