New Jersey - "The Garden State"

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey lies entirely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is also the second-wealthiest U.S. state by median household income as of 2014.The area was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, with historical tribes such as the Lenape along the coast. In the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. The English later seized control of the region, naming it the Province of New Jersey.

New Jersey was the site of several decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, factories in cities such as Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, and Elizabeth helped to drive the Industrial Revolution. New Jersey's geographic location at the center of the Northeast megalopolis, between Boston and New York City to the northeast, and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., to the southwest, fueled its rapid growth through the process of suburbanization in the 1950s and beyond. The capital of New Jersey is Trenton and the largest city in this state is Newark.

The Cuisine of New Jersey is derived from the long history of immigrants to the state and its close proximity to New York City and Philadelphia. The state of New Jersey is known for its commercial food and industrial production, with the founding of Campbell's Soup in 1869. Campbell's Soup is currently headquartered in Camden, New Jersey. Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States, operates a state of the art and sustainable corporate headquarters in Jersey City, New Jersey as part of a $500 million global expansion plan. Restaurants make use of locally grown ingredients such as asparagus, blueberries, cranberries, tomatoes, corn, and peaches. The state is the nation's third largest producer of bell peppers, cranberries, and spinach. With a passionate fast food culture, Italian hoagies are an icon. New Jersey is home to approximately 525 diners. Disco fries are a long-standing tradition at New Jersey diners. M&M candy has been produced in Hackettstown since 1958 and the Mars company has been headquartered in New Jersey for over 75 years.  

New Jersey doesn't appreciate you messing with its breakfast sandwich, so it's good thing Kal Salih, The Bagel Man, an Egyptian descent hails from New Jersey himself. There is nothing special about the breakfast sandwich's appearance - egg, cheese, usually a hard roll, sometimes a bagel but the defining feature and cornerstone of your complete Jersey breakfast is the meat, referred to by the popular brand name Taylor Ham. Pork roll  (known as Taylor Ham) is a pork-based processed meat originating and commonly available in New Jersey. It was developed in 1856 by John Taylor of Trenton, New Jersey, and sold as "Taylor Ham".   Sliced and griddled to a crisp, it's a salty, processed, guilty little piece of heaven, that is in not in the menu. You have to ask the staff of "The Bagel Man", a small bagel shop in Phoenix, AZ, for a special order of a Taylor Ham Breakfast Sandwich.