Salmon jerky, deer jerky, beef jerky...We're not putting up as much as we used to but, yes, it's way better than store-bought! In fact, I'm such a jerky snob I won't even touch store-bought... We used to be able to sell it on the rez then the Feds got their knickers in a knot about it when they discovered we made it ourselves in Grandma's kitchen... 
As always @Jimklag, I so appreciate your sense of humor! If your neighbor couldn't get it, it just proves your point.
Alligator is s common food source of the Gulf states.most people,myself included eat only the tail which is cubed battered and deep fried.it really does taste like chicken but it has the texture of a cheap pork chop.the taste does change depending on what type of seasoning you use in your breading.
That actually sounds pretty good! Have you tried the alligator jerky, @nitrofd? Is it any good?
Yep. Example: We have next door neighbors with teenagers. Sometimes they get a little loud. I go over and ask them to quiet down. Mr. Scrooge McJerk calls the cops.As always @Jimklag, I so appreciate your sense of humor! If your neighbor couldn't get it, it just proves your point.
Have never seen alligator jerky,but I bet it is popular in the bayou country of louisiana.
Or lordy...people like that make my skin crawl.
I may have to do a jerky taste test review!
Go to cajungrocer.com. They have lots of stuff including gator jerky.
I found some recipes for pemmican that sounded good, @diane, but I'm ignorant about what would truly be authentic and what wouldn't. They have been consistent in terms of saying it doesn't keep especially well, with rancid fat being the most common complaint. I wouldn't mind trying it just to try something new, but we'll see what the summer brings!
We must be doing it right since we're all still here thousands of years after the first Indian said I got too much deer - think I'll lay a couple strips of meat aside and see what happens...
Don't you love those Federal regulations.We didn't do much pemmican out here - usually used service berries or manzanita if we did it. The original power bar! That's what it was for - hunting trips, fishing, that sort of thing. Got to laugh, though...one day the school marm from the government showed up to teach us savages some healthy living and was appalled, aghast, shocked beyond shocked at the racks of drying meat sitting in the side yard. That's where the cool dry breeze came best! Anyway, she was all about confiscating our winter food supply and replacing it with fatty, gristly, soggy, over-salty canned meat. Git us our rifles, Gramma...
Amen,sister.
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