One of the more dubious New Jersey inventions is a "food" called pork roll. Legend has it that it was invented in Trenton, NJ, a fact that does its reputation absolutely no good.
For those of you outside of NJ, pork roll was invented apparently during a time when Trenton had a surfeit of sawdust and salt and found that with a little red die number 3 (the FDA banned one, so it was just as cheap as the other ingredients), could fool Trentonites into being a food. Since we're talking Trentonites, this was not particularly difficult.
An alert reader just called to let me know that the Miss Pork Roll festival and contest was being held this past weekend. It has all the earmarks of a contest (and title) one would NOT want to win plus it was being held in Trenton, which, despite being our state capital, just plain sucks.
Big surprise - I somehow managed to miss it.
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