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
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
El Diablito – Fuego White Fish Jerky Bar
El Diablito white fish jerky was launched in 2016 in Tabasco, Mexico, to transform the hated, feared, and invasive “pez diablo”, or devil fish, into a delicious and healthy snack. The devil fish is a severe problem in Mexico, where it now accounts for 70% of freshwater capture and has decimated the small-scale fishing industry.
Because of the fish’s mild flavor and firm Read More
Stubb’s – Original Beef Steak Bites
Fifty years ago, C.B. Stubblefield, known simply as “Stubb” started bottling his bar-b-q sauce in old whisky bottles and jam jars. It blew folks away. When Stubb later moved to Austin, he was urged by friends and patrons to sell his signature sauce. So using old whiskey bottles and jam jars, Stubb began hand-bottling his sauce for sale, corking each makeshift container with a jalapeño. Today, they continue to manufacture barbecue Read More
Stemmler Meats – Hot Beef Jerky Review #2
Kevin and his two brothers Shawn and Terry, run the store, making this a family-run store. All of their meats and other products come from families in the local farming community. Their store is a traditional “Bavarian” looking European meat shop, where you can see into every workspace in their production facility so that you can see them making the products you’re taking home. Stemmler Meats is manufactured Read More
Little Sutton Biltong Company – Smoky BBQ 100% Grass-Fed Beef Biltong
An aerospace engineer by trade, John Denning started making biltong about three years ago in a small biltong box and had good feedback. Little Sutton Biltong Company advertises as using all 100% grass-fed beef with no artificial anything as only the very best ingredients are used, including the silverside cut of beef. John states that his biltong has been a challenge to make using no Read More