Last year when we started making jerky our first batch was 100lbs wet. Not that against the norm because once the friends and family find out we are making it they start showing up wondering when it’s gonna be ready.
Once you spice up rat meat it’s really not that bad . Eating three Slim -Jims a day will keep you in perfect shape and if you exercise you’ll probably make it to 50 . :+1:
life is:
a great disc of polished wood that revolves quickly. At first you sit down and watch the others. They are all trying to sit in the wheel, and they keep getting flung off, and that makes them laugh, and you laugh too. It’s great fun . . . Of course at the very centre there’s a point completely at rest, if one could only find it. . . . Lots of people just enjoy scrambling on and being whisked off and scrambling on again. . . . But the whole point about the wheel is that you needn’t get on it at all. . . . People get hold of ideas about life, and that makes them think they’ve got to join in the game, even if they don’t enjoy it. It doesn’t suit everyone . .
I'll be dating myself when I say this; my screen name came from my old CB radio handle, and is still reasonably descriptive. An attempt to register the correct spelling during the earliest days of hotmail was stymied by someone already having an account correctly spelled, so I just removed the "I" in "slim".
I used to get teased a little about the similarity of said handle/screen name and the beef jerky snack. I do indeed like Slim Jim snacks. They're the tasty chewing gum of the processed-meat world.
Back in my younger days I use to eat them all the time . Now I try to avoid anything with more than a handful of ingredients on the label. I’m already well preserved.
I tried one once…possibly the worst piece of processed crap I ever tasted!! Must be lots of people who like them though as I’ve never seen a store that doesn’t sell them