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meat that conquered death by becoming chewy, salty, and impossibly portable
means Meat that's been cut into strips and dried (often salted or seasoned) so it keeps for ages without spoiling, yielding a tough, chewy snack.
from From Spanish 'charqui,' which the Spanish borrowed from Quechua 'ch'arki' — the word for dried, salted meat used by the peoples of the Andes long before Europeans arrived. English ears reshaped the unfamiliar sounds into the homier 'jerky,' a folk-friendly spelling that has nothing to do with jerking or sudden movements, despite the coincidental resemblance.
- name origin
- From Quechua charqui, meaning dried meat
- space rations
- Beef jerky flew on Apollo and shuttle missions
- ancient tech
- Incas dried llama meat in cold mountain air
- water removed
- Drying yanks out moisture bacteria need to survive
- any meat
- Bison, salmon, ostrich, even alligator get jerkied
jack link's beef jerky — largest jerky brand in north america, $2.3 billion market leader since 1986
biltong — south african dried cured meat, centuries-old preparation different from american jerky
pemmican — indigenous north american jerky mixed with fat and berries, used by fur traders