Jerky goes to Iraq

[bbqjoe]

A friend of mine, as well as a customer, has a son serving in Iraq. She wanted to know if I thought some babybacks would make it to Iraq and still be edible. Unfortunately I told her that it probably wouldn't work.
So she asked what might.
I told her that some Beef jerky would most likely make the trip. She purchased a pound or two and sent it off.
Her son was relocated, and the jerky spent a month or so chasing him around until they finally met up.
It traveled just fine and he shared it with all his buddies and it was gone before he knew it.
She came in last week and wanted to know if we could do it again.
I ordered in 75 pounds of inside round and got to work.
Loaded up the smoker, and a day or so later packaged up her order.
In the meantime I also made a bunch of smaller packages and matched her order, so that her son could pass them out to as many of the troops as he could.
Have a safe trip Jerky!!!!!

 

[Kevin]

Good for you Joe.

 

[BrooklynQ]

That's great joe.

 

[parrothead]

We went through this with a neighborhood kid. Sent him all kinds of good stuff. There is a thread somewhere with some details of what to and not to send. One of them is you are not allowed to send non-commercially packaged food goods. I hope you had a label or something to slap on there. Packages arrive mangled and opened so they do look in the boxes that are going to troops over seas.

Also, as far as the ribs thing, I think it said something about no pork products. Wouldn'y make it anyway. All of the packages that we sent took well over a month to find the guy if at all. We had one that came back to us over 2 months later that looked like a truck had run it over three times.

 

[scottyd]

I work for a major beef jerky company and we send beef jerky to Irac to my son's unit and many other military units. we have had none returned to us our product does have a 18 month shelf life. we have had no issues. the troops love it and it packs along great on patrols. My son is do home any day for a 15 day leave from Irac. we can not wait

 

[Wildcat]

I've always wanted to make jerky in the smoker but never knew how. I make both beef and deer jerky every year in the dehydrator.

Good luck.