Overview
- During a recent Zach Sang Show appearance, Mikie Sherrill said, “Who eats pork roll? I think that’s gross,” in a lighthearted exchange about the state’s breakfast staple.
- Republican Jack Ciattarelli posted the clip on X as a campaign ad and framed the remark as evidence that Sherrill lacks authentic New Jersey roots.
- Sherrill’s team shared the fuller context, saying she was objecting to the term “pork roll” and affirming the North Jersey name “Taylor ham.”
- The long-running naming divide—Taylor ham in the north versus pork roll in central and southern New Jersey—traces back to John Taylor’s 19th-century Trenton product.
- New Jersey Democrats countered with video of Ciattarelli saying he uses different names depending on the region, as the exchange continued to circulate widely online.