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A pork roll, egg and cheese with potato sandwich in a file photo.

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TRENTON -- The inaugural Trenton Pork Roll Festival, a 12-hour celebration of the capital city's famous meat export, has been scheduled for May at Trenton Social bar and restaurant.

A Facebook page dedicated to the May 24 festival touts the event as a "a day celebrating Trenton's unique Pork Roll heritage with good food, music, beer, history and special events." More than 300 people are already indicated they plan to attend.

The event, run by Exit 7A Productions, will include brunch, lunch and dinner with pork roll -- or Taylor ham depending on your loyalties -- as the primary menu item, along with a pork roll slider eating cost, recipe contest the naming of a pork roll queen and a pork roll bike tour.

There's even live music by, you guessed it, The Pork Roll Project blues band, and Chalk & The Beige Americans.

Trenton is home to both Case Pork Roll, on Washington Street, and Taylor Provisions, on Perrine Avenue.

John Taylor, a Hamilton Township native, is said to have invented pork roll in 1856, though it may date back to the Revolutionary War. George Washington Case of Belle Mead came up with his own recipe in 1870 and that eventually became the Case Pork Roll Co.

Trenton Social is located across the street from the Sun National Bank Center on South Broad Street in Trenton.

For more information on the event, visit the festival's Facebook fan page.

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