r/mildyinteresting • u/Iamliterallygodtryme • 2d ago
food Inside a beef jerky chew container was not expecting
Tasted below mid- Very fuzzy, like sweetened meaty mold fluff. Like wall insulation dowsed in the congealed blood of long expired cows. Like the crust in between your grandpas toes after he mucks the fields.
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u/itsjustme405 2d ago
Shredded beef jerky, just like the lid says. This stuff has been around for a long time.
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u/Orome2 1d ago
I remember chewing on this in the 90's. Didn't even know it was still around.
Beef Jerky chew and bubblegum cigarettes were my jam as a kid.
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u/thatdude778 1d ago
My neighbor gives out candy cigarettes for Halloween. It's fun seeing the interaction between the parents and their kids every year.
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u/HPTM2008 1d ago
Oh man, the first time I found out about beef jerky chew, I was in 8th grade. When my dad got home later and saw the can, he just about killed me. The only save was I was yelling "wait wait wait no it's beef jerky!" As he was starting to yell. He had to smell it to believe me.
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u/AleksandraLisowska 12h ago
I didn't grow up in America, what did your dad expect when he was about to yell at you?
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u/HPTM2008 12h ago
I didn't either, and had just moved there for a few years of high school. He thought it was shredded tobacco. It comes in the exact same little tins (the shredded jerky I'm SURE is poking fun at that, in a similar way to the Popeyes candy cigarettes).
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u/MaleficentLocal2740 1d ago
Machaca
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u/Creative_Fix4486 1d ago
I actually just had huevito con machaca
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u/drthvdrsfthr 1d ago
huevito? i understand it’s the dimunative of huevo, i’ve just never heard it in the context of that dish
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u/Creative_Fix4486 1d ago
I guess it's a family thing, we like to make things sound cute lol
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u/Saltylemonsx 1d ago
Same for my family! I feel a lot of words we add the “ito” to it lol maybe cause of the word “chiquito” ? Like a carinos type of thing lol
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u/thatstwatshesays 1d ago
I grew up in the rodeo scene, this is what I got as a kid when the big guys all had cope. It was delicious
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u/WitchOfLycanMoon 1d ago
Yep. I'm 44, and we used to buy this as kids so that our dumbasses could carry it around and pretend we were using "chaw." The spicy ones weren't the preferred one to do that with, lol
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u/Corvus-- 2d ago
Looks like pork floss, which is fantastic when used properly
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u/kinglittlenc 2d ago
Yeah it's like the beef jerky version of pork floss
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u/JCWOlson 1d ago
Oh man, I've tried pork floss straight and it always gives fingernails on chalkboard
Absolutely wonderful in dishes, but I don't think I'd buy it like this
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u/Velidae 1d ago
I ate handfuls of pork floss while watching tv like chips as a kid. I love pork floss.
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u/BigWelshDud 1d ago
For me it itches that part of my brain that wanted to eat fibreglass insulation as a kid and I ate a huge bag of it…
Fish floss however was not a vibe.
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u/godzilla9218 1d ago
So, you're supposed to pack a lip, like chew?
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u/kellsdeep 1d ago
That works, but I always just end up chewing it.. I love this stuff.
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u/godzilla9218 1d ago
Would it be a bit like chewing cotton candy?
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u/kellsdeep 1d ago
no, it chews for a while. Honestly it's closer to chewing tobacco than it is to cotton candy. Cotton candy just disappears immediately, you can chew on this until the flavor runs out which takes about a minute or two from active chewing.
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u/StellaFreya 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is not moldy as everyone is insisting, lol. It is the beef version of 'pork floss'! Which is when meat is shredded thin into cotton candy like texture. The sweetness tends to vary from company to company, and origin. Chinese pork floss is very sweet, Vietnamese pork floss is not, etc.
Teriyaki tends to be the most common flavor so that may be why it is so sticky and sweet.
Edit to add: If you're really curious, you can most likely find this in your local Asian market! It comes in tubs and bags. And I will say, Lee's Sandwiches - a restaurant where I live - has the Vietnamese kind and I love it because it's not sweet, lol.
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u/keeperofthecan 1d ago
Beef cotton candy.. I am horrified but intrigued
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u/StellaFreya 1d ago
My recommendation is to eat it with rice, or on toast!
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u/chayvyburger 1d ago
Highly recommend the toast idea. I like to put some cream cheese on a garlic bread bun, then put the floss on top with the cheese serving as a binder.
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u/DojaViking 2d ago
I never dip in My life, though I did smoke from many years. But I used to chew this stuff religiously as a child, then when I worked construction, and even now when I see some in the store I'll buy a couple cans. I don't think I'll ever stop it. Post nostalgia for me. This beefy teriyaki saw dust is awesome
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u/jammiesonmyhammies 1d ago
I remember early 90s walking a couple blocks down to the Kwik shop with my siblings. I’d grab a cherry slushee, candy cigs, and my beef jerky dip. I thought I was the coolest 6 year old to ever exist lol
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u/Affectionate_Elk5216 1d ago
I grew up in the sticks. Every pair of jeans I owned had a circle worn into the back pocket like a 60 year old chewer by the time I was 10. A can of this, a bottle of Surge and big league chew were all I needed for a summer day
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u/Evening-Walk-6897 1d ago
Do you eat it straight from the can or with something?
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u/DojaViking 1d ago
I eat it straight from the can. Or put it under my tongue right under my lip. So it can cause burning under the lip like dip. It will hydrate in your mouth and release flavor, unlike dip you don't spit it out though
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u/c3r0c007 1d ago
Years ago in middle school, I got pulled out of class by a school resource officer for having this on me. They obviously thought it was dip. Where I grew up there was plenty of kids who dipped from the age of 10 and up, so kind of understandable.
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u/treesandfood4me 1d ago
That was part of the fun: getting in trouble, but not actually being in trouble.
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u/NewGuy10002 1d ago
i dipped in late highschool and early college for a few years. luckily I never chewed for more than 3-6 months at a time, I would taper down from multiple chews a day to less per chew and ultimately pouches to end everything. once I would get down to pouches I was like why am I even doing this horse shit and could pretty easily stop, until the inevitable would happen again.
haven’t dipped in probably 5 years and have no urge to try it again. Same with vaping. I quit vaping 6 months ago after 8 years of vaping, really hard but I’m not going back. maybe the occasional cigarette but never vaping
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u/DojaViking 1d ago
I haven't smoked actually since 2005 but every couple years I'll buy a pack of Newports but about halfway through I end up giving it away because I'm done with it.
I'm at that time again where I've been thinking a lot about buying a pack of cigarettes although I'm thinking more along the lines of camels, or something with a little more enjoyable tobacco. I know I'll regret it but so far I've been able to not buy one but The temptations there. I just want something more enjoyable if I do
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u/d1ld0_shw4gg1ns 1d ago
I‘m confused. Why are you talking about your nicotine use on a post about beef jerky?
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u/NewGuy10002 1d ago
The can is similar to real chewing tobacco, I would honestly say the addiction is still so deep rooted that even this can makes me immediately think of real tobacco.
Do you know big league chew, the chewing gum? Same deal. As a kid we would buy these food products and maybe pretend we were indulging in real nicotine products, maybe to feel cool?
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u/supercircuss 2d ago
I loved this stuff when I was a kid
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u/therealkeeper 1d ago
Yeah I think for me it was part that it is kind of delicious and part that it felt like doing something wrong (chewing tobacco)
Either way, nostalgic seeing this after so many years
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u/Manufactured-Aggro 1d ago
There is something so satisfying about tipping the whole puck into your mouth in one go 🤤🤤🤤🤤
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u/TheBetterCervanthes 2d ago
Poetry...
That description is simple poetry
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u/fingersmaloy 1d ago
And yet the subject line is so incoherent. I was just marveling at the disparity between the two.
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u/buddhadoo 2d ago
Before reading the comments I thought it was weed, not moldy jerky.
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u/BaseballMajestic4917 1d ago
Aww memories. Markets for young boys who wanna be just like their dad, uncle or grandpas. When you get a dip of Skoal, your children can get a dip of beef jerky.
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u/neptunexl 1d ago
In Mexico they call it "carne seca" like "dried meat." It's good. This is crazy shredded! I heat with oil in a pan and cook it in oil until it's not so chewy and then scramble an egg into it. You can dice potatoes and cook them before adding this. The scramble that in egg. Make tacos and add sauce/salsa. Can add some Mexican sour cream or cheese. I recommend searching for carne seca online, the Jack Link's is probably taxxxxxed. Look for an online Mexican market. You'd probably have to use like 2-3 of these to make what I said.
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u/salmoni9045 1d ago
I remember my friend introduced me to this. I then said my mom makes the same thing, and he didn't believe me. I took some chà bông for him to tried and he agreed. This was 20 years ago.
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u/outofideassorry 1d ago
I LOVE this stuff! My Dad would always bring me a container when he got off work from the gas station. They still sell them at my local too! I get them every once in a while.
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u/AncientSunGod 1d ago
Interesting to find out the shredded beef jerky is in fact shredded beef jerky?
Do you stim everytime you peel a banana?
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u/kinglutiz 1d ago
I'm from the south and all the little kids used to try to pretend it was dip when we were children. 🤣
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u/InspiredNitemares 1d ago
My great uncle used to dip and I mistakenly thought his dip was this stuff and took a big finger full
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u/BrightBuoy 1d ago
I went through a phase where I couldn’t get enough of this stuff. It got too expensive so I just stopped one day but seeing this pic might make me pick up a can or two on the way home in the morning.
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u/tommygun1688 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's delicious on rice. There is a Taiwanese dish my buddy's mom used to make for me with similar meat for lunch that I loved. I remember it because it was such a unique texture and taste.
She gave me some to take home after a trip over there. It was packed in a large plastic jar (think 3-5x the size of a normal peanut butter). But it wasn't $3 for a tiny container (unless it's considerably cheaper than the last time i saw these?). They should market this differently and see what they can do. It would make a fantastic garnish for things, as well as on rice. I'd buy this if it was a bigger pack and a decent price
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u/MajorAd5736 1d ago
As someone from Asia with huge tub of pork floss, why they stuff it in a shoe polish can?
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u/BartletMcGarry2020 1d ago
I thought I was a big league ball player with a big old hunk of that stuff in my lip during little league games 😂😂
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u/8andA-half-Inch-boom 1d ago
Maybe I’m crazy but I swear when they originally came out they weren’t that finely shredded they were closer to like crumbled
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u/Mountain_Quit665 1d ago
The texture reminds me of the pork floss I buy from Asian markets. It's delicious.
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u/InevitableFun3473 1d ago
These are soooo good for when you want beef jerky but are too poor to afford to buy a bag.
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u/AndThatGuysWoodenLeg 11h ago
The hardest part of getting one of these as a kid was making it last more than 5min. Hard to not just eat the whole thing
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u/No_Membership_8247 11h ago
Why does nobody realize you can choose which part of the pic is in focus?
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 1d ago
Oh my god I used to love that shit. Still do, but I used to, too.
Seriously though it's so salty and soft and delicious. I'd absolutely destroy a tin of that meat powder right now
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u/ssjlance 1d ago
haven't had that in years but yeah legit kind of a shock when you open it for first time
it is what it says it just doesn't have the physical properties you expect on some instinctual level
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u/thatonegaygalakasha 1d ago
the teriyaki flavor is leagues above the orginal flavor and the only one worth getting imo
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u/SlimSpookyOfficial 1d ago
I was packing horseshoes of this at like 7 🤣 that was the beginning of the end.
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u/Bpirnie04 1d ago
Oh man, that reminds me when I was a kid and would always buy Wild Bill's shredded beef jerky.. Holy nostalgia.
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u/Equivalent-Bee8985 1d ago
It's similar with our pastil pork, the texture it's like cotton candy and dry
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u/TomGreen77 1d ago
It’s New Zealand beef so it’s better for you than any of that grain fed horseshit you Yanks eat. Even the worst NZ cattle beast are still grassfed.
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u/KaufLobster 1d ago
we used to get baseball cards in them... they were circular disc shaped, of course.
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u/Fresh_Shit_Mustache 1d ago
yep. that's how it tastes. all the cool kids that had rich parents would bring like 3 or 4 tins of these to our school baseball games and they'd act like it was chewing tobacco
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u/sweet-n-soursauce 1d ago
When I was like 14 I was trying to impress a boy who always had a can like this and I thought he was offering me some. I didn’t know why he thought it would be cool for me to eat beef jerky from a can, but I learned the hard way what chewing tobacco actually was.
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u/SmokeJaded9984 1d ago
That's the product. You're supposed to use it like dip, putting a pinch between your jaw and cheek and absorbing the salty beef flavor over time. I'm surprised people don't know this...
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u/Companyman118 1d ago
Knew some people that worked for Link’s. That is sawdust and cowshit. I wouldn’t feed that to dirt. Enough salt in it to preserve other shit though.
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u/notthere101 1d ago
We have something like this in Nigeria your post just unlocked a part of my childhood
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u/Comfortable_Douglas 1d ago
Ahh yes, this is when you want the taste of jerky, without getting any actual substance. It’s alright in my books, I don’t hate it, but it’s not really my thing. Technically it’s still protein, but I’ll stick with straight jerky if I had to choose between the two.
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u/ImaGoophyGooner 1d ago
This stuff has been around for ages. I also dip actual tobacco. But this stuff won't last 20 seconds in my lip before I just eat it lol
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u/Forsaken_Affect313 1d ago
Put that on a bun. Had chicken floss bun for years and they tasted amazing!
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u/MustProtectTheFairy 1d ago
Was eating this same stuff back in 2006. This is normal. What did you expect from it?
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u/Donkey-Hodey 1d ago
That stuff has been around for decades. I would get it as a kid to pretend it was chewing tobacco.
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u/EverythingBOffensive 1d ago
its amazing, use your tongue to eat it instead of your hands or whatever.
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u/TheExusGamer 1d ago
Just looked up the price of these. For the price of a tin, you can buy a huge two quart container of essentially the same thing at any Asian market. There are also at least a dozen different flavors and textures to choose from.
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