{"id":914,"date":"2018-03-05T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornelllunatic.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:36:53","slug":"editorial-dont-give-flying-fuck-fda-tells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL | I Don\u2019t Give a Flying Fuck What the FDA Tells Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Food and Drug Administration defines \u201cham\u201d as \u201cthe cured leg of pork.\u201d Now, under this punishingly strict and arbitrary definition, the circular meat product that goes excellently with egg and cheese on a bagel cannot legally be referred to as \u201cham.\u201d However, that does NOT make it okay to call such food \u201cpork roll.\u201d It is TAYLOR HAM and no one can tell me otherwise. Miss me with that pork roll shit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You see, in the Great State of New Jersey, there are two (AND ONLY TWO) regions, North Jersey and South Jersey. North Jersey is a diverse and glorious economic powerhouse, close to New York City, the greatest city in the world, and home to powerhouse cultural icons like Frank Sinatra, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sopranos, The Godfather, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When my ancestors, wasting away in the shtetls of Russia, the barren potato fields of Ireland, and the war-torn ruins of Poland dreamt of coming to a new life in America, they did not dream of New York or Chicago or Los Angeles; they dreamt of Newark, New Jersey, where the streets were paved with high-quality bagels, pizza, and yes, TAYLOR HAM. What does South Jersey have? Well they have a bunch of inbred \u201cPineys\u201d hiding deep in the Pine Barrens (actually a good thing since it means we don\u2019t have to look at them), they have the thrilling and critically acclaimed series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jersey Shore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they have beaches renowned for the amount of hypodermic needles that wash up on them, and they have a bunch of Pennsylvania exiles who just couldn\u2019t quite hack the Philadelphia lifestyle. Imagine, an entire area populated by people who weren\u2019t good enough for PHILADELPHIA. And they have the AUDACITY, THE UNMITIGATED GALL to try and tell us that, well actually, it\u2019s pork roll. FUCK NO! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me tell you, James Gandolfini didn\u2019t die for this. And if I must die for this hill, so be it. I will defend the honor of Taylor Ham to my last breath, and a bunch of sister-fucking woods-people will call it pork roll over my dead body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014Alec Faber \u201920<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/?p=914\" title=\"EDITORIAL | I Don\u2019t Give a Flying Fuck What the FDA Tells Me\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cornelllunatic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}