Raincoast Trading was launched in 1995. They specialize in Pacific albacore, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, skipjack tuna, and sardine products, with jerky being one of their products. Founded by a multi-generation fishing family on the West Coast of Canada, Raincoast Trading believes that sustainable seafood can and should be accessible. Canned wild seafood can be Read More
Archives for March 2021
Big Chief Meat Snacks – Sweet & Spicy Beef Jerky
Big Chief Meat Snacks has proudly been in business for 50 years. For three generations, the Klein family has been making meat snacks. Originally a sausage producer and delicatessen, Alberta Fancy Sausage Ltd. was founded in 1971. When the switch was made from delicatessen to beef jerky manufacturer, Big Chief Meat Snacks new jerky brand evolved. Read More
Backattack Snacks – Carne Asada Angus Beef Jerky
Backattack Snacks officially launched their jerky brand in 2016 by husband and wife Brian and Lauren Back to provide consumers a healthy snack alternative without the need for a Ph.D. in chemistry to understand what they are eating. The way they make jerky is simple: no preservatives and no added processed sugars. No BS – only the best USDA choice Angus beef you can buy. Following this minimalist mantra, their Read More
No Name – Original Beef Jerky
The brand name No Name is a line of generic brand grocery and household products sold by Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada’s largest food retailer. Launched in 1978, all items are sold in black and yellow packaging and generally offer savings of between 10 and 40 percent over national brands. This jerky is actually made by an unknown private labeler, meaning that this Read More
Hamel’s Own Beef Jerky – Original Beef Jerky
Hamel’s is a family-owned business and was founded by Gaston Hamel. They have been operating in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, since 1962. They specialize in jerky, shipping it throughout Canada. Hamel’s has always been recognized as a friendly, organized, and easy-going environment for both customers and staff. Read More
Pepe’s Salami Chips – Hot Salami Chips
Pepe’s Salami Chips debuted salami chips in 2015 and have since been awarded the Premier Award For Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. These salami chips are said to use only the highest premium quality cuts of meat with no fillers, no MSG, and allergen-free. The word chips in the jerky world infer being crispy, but in fairness, the word jerky does appear on the bag. Their bag even states ‘tender’. These salami chips Read More
Red Truck Beef Jerky – BBQ Flavored Wild Boar Pork Stick
Vic Guido teamed up with Richard Cresswell in 2014 to create Red Truck Beef Jerky – a small, family-owned business that sustainably sources premium cuts of whole-muscle beef shoulder, right here in the USA. The result is the most tender and lean jerky on the market. For the past five years, they’ve focused almost exclusively on making their products accessible in Read More
Vinnie’s Ol Time Jerky – Classic Beef Jerky
Vinnie was taught a while ago by a jerky master who was retiring. They met because Vinnie had been buying jerky from him for years. After all, it was delicious. Since then, Vinnie has experimented successfully with new flavors. Vinnie describes himself as a Meat Sherpa (#meatsherpa). A sherpa is meaning renowned for its skill in mountaineering. In 2015, Vinnie debuted Read More
250 Jerky Distributors Reviewed
We are proud to announce that we have now reviewed 250 jerky distributors. Typically, we celebrate milestones in increments of one hundred. To review 50 jerky distributors is an accomplishment on its own. It took us over seven years for us to reach 250 jerky Distributors reviewed. We love the jerky community, where many jerky makers tend to be hard-working, enthusiastic, and perfectionists. Read More
7-Select – Korean BBQ Pork Jerky
7-Eleven is an international chain of convenience stores headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The chain was founded in 1927 as an ice house storefront in Dallas. It was named Tote’m Stores between 1928 and 1946. After 70% of the company was acquired by Japanese affiliate Ito-Yokado in 1991, it was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd in 2005, and is now held by Read More