pork & Co – form an orderly queue

Pork & Co is one of the incredibly popular food traders at Folkestone Harbour.  You can find them in The Goods Yard serving their delicious, and legendary, pulled-pork, chicken and homemade slaws.  The company was formed from when owner Sam Deeson had a small holding, rearing rare-breed pigs.  His ethos has always been to champion local produce and makes all of the sauces, salads and rolls to go along with the tasty pulled pork and chicken fillings.  Folkelife caught up with Sam to find out more.

“I loved rearing the pigs when we had the small-holding.  Rare breeds grow at a slower rate and we had so much space for them to roam around and just be pigs.  It means the flavour is better but you have really happy pigs which is important to me. 

“We took about 6 months to perfect our pulled-pork recipe and it was before pulled-pork really came into fashion.  Then, having a place on Canterbury High Street our produce would just fly out of the shop.  Covid, as with everything, changed the hospitality industry and so we came off the high street and are focusing on street food vending.  Being at Folkestone’s Harbour Arm has been a really exciting place for us to be.  We love what’s happening here and when the opportunity came up to be part of the Festive Marketplace at Christmas in 2022 we just jumped at the chance!”

professional and easy

“What’s struck us about the Harbour Arm is the team here is so professional which makes it really easy for us to work here.  We’ve been in various different places and life is so much easier when things are done properly.  There’s the footfall too which is good if you’re running a business!  The atmosphere at Folkestone Harbour is great and the variety of events that are on there mean that we’ll be seeing loads of old customers and new.”

Our menu

“Obviously, we have our pulled-pork as that’s our thing.  The Southern Fried Chicken is really popular too and we make that ourselves so it’s a little bit different to the usual you’ll find elsewhere.  Our Mac’n’cheese with our three cheese sauce is a great winter dish.  We put that in a toastie which you can have with pulled-pork or by itself.  We weren’t able to do this from a small van, but now we have a much larger space at The Goods Yard.

“Our sausage rolls leave the hut hot out of the oven, so they don’t hang around for long.  If you’re down here for breakfast then we have our breakfast roll, which is good if you want something a bit smaller.  It’s on the menu all day, so it doesn’t matter what time breakfast is to us.

“We are really enjoying our time here at Folkestone Harbour.  It’s a festival atmosphere when the sun is out, but when it’s chilly, there’s nothing better than sharing great food with friends.”