I don’t know about these beef sticks, but I tried Baja Vida beef jerky not long ago as part of my ongoing “try weird snacks I find in the store” program. It was Street Taco flavor, which sounds pretty awesome, right?
It was awful–the worst beef jerky I’ve ever had, and that’s even admitting I used to get that super dry beef jerky snuff powder in dip cans as a kid. It was like eating charcoal if it was also stringy. So I’m not a fan.
Beef sticks by definition are a different texture, different product, so these may be fine. But I’m staying away from this particular cow’s products.
By the way, the Wicked Cutz jerky I bought here was great. The Think Jerky was also pretty good. So Meh has a decent track record with jerky for me. I’d love more like those!
@djslack as a former SoCal resident, I’ve traipsed all up and down Baja. Seen many head of cattle along the way. Reflecting back, though… can’t recall seeing but a handful of cats. Huh. Weird.
@awk We’re they the hot sauce flavored ones? I bought some if those and that stuff was…mealy? I mean, I ate them all, but every single one was mealy and weird. So what I’m saying is they were very consistent…
@Burns72 For the Cleveland area/burbs, most any butcher shop, the West Side Market has a bunch. Jaworski’s Meats, R&K Sausage, prolly State (Road) Meats, Lviv Ukrainian shop (has kabanosy as well, milder but good), many of the mom & pop ethnic butchers. Possibly K&K meats on Warren Rd.
@hchavers@Kyeh OMG! I have an ozone generator… which instructs all living things to leave the area while outta in use, Andy for 4 hours afterwards too! That stuff is MEAN to soft tissue!
@hchavers@mediocratic Scary! I have no idea how she does this or what benefits she thinks she’s getting - some people just have too much money and free time, I think.
@hchavers@Kyeh@mediocratic this has been around for over 20 years out here in California, it comes and goes as the current fad with the woo-woo crowd. In the 90’s it was touted as a cancer therapy.
It does apparently have some therapeutic benefit for blood oxygenation for people with certain conditions, but not really a cure or long term benefit for anything.
@hchavers@Kyeh@mediocratic@stolicat Before today, I had never heard of rectal ozone therapy. I don’t feel like I’m better for having learned about it, either.
In any case, I know for a fact that ozone is not an odorless gas.
I happen to like it (in small doses), possibly/probably because I associate it with that “after a nice rain” smell. But pouring it up the exit won’t do me any good.
@hchavers@Kyeh@mediocratic maybe she misunderstood the term “rusty balloon knot” and thinks she needs to turn her large intestine into an actual rusty balloon.
@hchavers@Kyeh@mediocratic@stolicat Reminds me of “chelation therapy,” normally used for victims of heavy metal poisoning. Some kooky “doctor” around here thought everyone should have chelation, and for a hefty fee, he provided it at his “clinic.” His medical license was eventually revoked…
The O Zone should be the place you get when erogenous stimulation has been successfully achieved, not some toxic gas you blow into your exhaust pipe.
@detailer@Kyeh Anyone else see the commercials from a while ago for one of the delivery services where people were eating tape and other non-food stuff that was delivered? In one version, the non-food item was one of Gwyneth’s candles. The person made kind of a “hmm” face.
@hchavers@Kyeh somewhere I have a pic of an ozone generator that looks like some early-20th-century piece of medical quackery. The name plate on it is “HomOzone” …the less said about this, the better.
The food stuffs I have bought here have been roughly two bad and two mediocre items for every good one. So for every item we finish there are two where we eat some and the rest get trashed and two that get trashed immediately.
Wish they had a sampler size rather than buying $30 of compost 2/3 of the time.
@ponagathos Unless there’s something genuinely wrong with food items I don’t like from Meh, I donate them to a local food pantry. I figure just because I don’t like them, someone else might enjoy them.
Just to be clear these are not nitrate free. They just don’t add the by cnnnitrates directly, instead they add celery which is high in nitrates. There is no difference between “natural” nitrates and “artificial” nitrates.
So, it is entirely possible for these to have the same or even more nitrates than competitors who add nitrates directly.
@tightwad@topochicho
Some people are sensitive to them and get digestive & skin issues from them.
They are also a no no for heart patients on nitro or beta blockers, if I remember right.
@chup You really don’t have to eat them in 2 weeks unless you personally deem “Best By” the throw-away date, which it isn’t. The inventory ranges from 4/26-5/17, although we can’t guarantee which dates you will get
Specs
Product: 64-Pack: Baja Vida Traditional Beef Sticks
Model: 850019279580
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$147.96 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Apr 28 - Monday, May 1
Slim Jim rip off?
@yakkoTDI i liked these quite a bit better. had the spicy ones tho.
This stuff is jerky?
@Felton10 No, this stuff is beef stick.
Doesn’t that kind of translate to “low life?”
@j4yx0r Life low. Think of Casa Blanca.
@j4yx0r Or “short life”?
@awk @j4yx0r lmao
But the gags, belches, and farts are self-service.
I don’t know about these beef sticks, but I tried Baja Vida beef jerky not long ago as part of my ongoing “try weird snacks I find in the store” program. It was Street Taco flavor, which sounds pretty awesome, right?
It was awful–the worst beef jerky I’ve ever had, and that’s even admitting I used to get that super dry beef jerky snuff powder in dip cans as a kid. It was like eating charcoal if it was also stringy. So I’m not a fan.
Beef sticks by definition are a different texture, different product, so these may be fine. But I’m staying away from this particular cow’s products.
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
By the way, the Wicked Cutz jerky I bought here was great. The Think Jerky was also pretty good. So Meh has a decent track record with jerky for me. I’d love more like those!
@djslack I liked the Wicked Cutz enough to order from their web site a few times. They also have some meat and cheese sticks that are pretty good.
@djslack as a former SoCal resident, I’ve traipsed all up and down Baja. Seen many head of cattle along the way. Reflecting back, though… can’t recall seeing but a handful of cats. Huh. Weird.
@djslack
I wish you wrote more of the reviews I read while researching products.
Why the beef not?
/buy
@jwoody27 It worked! Your order number is: blue-longing-boat
/image blue longing boat
Didn’t love the ones I got last time, weird dry mushy texture.
@awk We’re they the hot sauce flavored ones? I bought some if those and that stuff was…mealy? I mean, I ate them all, but every single one was mealy and weird. So what I’m saying is they were very consistent…
@vfrdirk Yep the hot sauce flavor. Maybe the other flavors were different?
@awk I was hoping you’d be struggling to justify eating more beef sticks, but succumbing anyways
@awk weird mine are too wet
More smokies! As they’re called in Ohio and PA. For people who haven’t yet finished their Slim Jims.
@danexton I have a local butcher down the road that makes pineapple teriyaki ones. Calls them “Hawaiian Crack.” I am powerless to resist them.
@djslack I agree, the ones from the butcher are addictive.
@danexton Finished my Slim Jims? I haven’t received them yet!
@danexton Apparently, I have been visiting the wrong butcher! I need a road trip to PA!
@danexton @djslack where may we find this “Hawaiian Crack”?? Asking for a protein-hungry friend
@Burns72 For the Cleveland area/burbs, most any butcher shop, the West Side Market has a bunch. Jaworski’s Meats, R&K Sausage, prolly State (Road) Meats, Lviv Ukrainian shop (has kabanosy as well, milder but good), many of the mom & pop ethnic butchers. Possibly K&K meats on Warren Rd.
I have a beef with this offering today.
@Kidsandliz So that’s where the beef is.
/youtube where’s the beef commercial
/showme a big beefy beef stick, fillin’ a big beefy beef stick lover’s beef hole
@mediocrebot I’m glad you didn’t guess (and depict) what the beef hole is. That has potential to go very wrong.
I’ll pass on the sticks so they can’t pass through me.
@hchavers Maybe Gwyneth Paltrow’s ozone therapy can help you with that:
https://graziamagazine.com/us/articles/gwyneth-paltrow-rectal-ozone-therapy-diet-backlash/
@hchavers @Kyeh What the f*ck?
@hchavers @PooltoyWolf
Gwyneth being Gwyneth, I guess! 
@hchavers @Kyeh OMG! I have an ozone generator… which instructs all living things to leave the area while outta in use, Andy for 4 hours afterwards too! That stuff is MEAN to soft tissue!
@hchavers @mediocratic Scary! I have no idea how she does this or what benefits she thinks she’s getting - some people just have too much money and free time, I think.
@hchavers @Kyeh @mediocratic this has been around for over 20 years out here in California, it comes and goes as the current fad with the woo-woo crowd. In the 90’s it was touted as a cancer therapy.
It does apparently have some therapeutic benefit for blood oxygenation for people with certain conditions, but not really a cure or long term benefit for anything.
@hchavers @Kyeh @mediocratic @stolicat Before today, I had never heard of rectal ozone therapy. I don’t feel like I’m better for having learned about it, either.
In any case, I know for a fact that ozone is not an odorless gas.
I happen to like it (in small doses), possibly/probably because I associate it with that “after a nice rain” smell. But pouring it up the exit won’t do me any good.
@hchavers @Kyeh @mediocratic maybe she misunderstood the term “rusty balloon knot” and thinks she needs to turn her large intestine into an actual rusty balloon.
@Kyeh Oh…same diz ball that brought us this little gem https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop
@xobzoo
Certainly not after Paltrow’s done with it, it would appear.
@hchavers @Kyeh @mediocratic @stolicat Reminds me of “chelation therapy,” normally used for victims of heavy metal poisoning. Some kooky “doctor” around here thought everyone should have chelation, and for a hefty fee, he provided it at his “clinic.” His medical license was eventually revoked…
The O Zone should be the place you get when erogenous stimulation has been successfully achieved, not some toxic gas you blow into your exhaust pipe.
@detailer @Kyeh Anyone else see the commercials from a while ago for one of the delivery services where people were eating tape and other non-food stuff that was delivered? In one version, the non-food item was one of Gwyneth’s candles. The person made kind of a “hmm” face.
@hchavers @Kyeh @mediocratic
and perhaps no functioning brain…
@hchavers @Kyeh somewhere I have a pic of an ozone generator that looks like some early-20th-century piece of medical quackery. The name plate on it is “HomOzone” …the less said about this, the better.
@detailer @Kyeh
And sunning her vagina
And hers and his taint…
@hchavers @Kyeh @mediocratic @MrNews @stolicat Hence why I come to meh. This thread made me cry.
The food stuffs I have bought here have been roughly two bad and two mediocre items for every good one. So for every item we finish there are two where we eat some and the rest get trashed and two that get trashed immediately.
Wish they had a sampler size rather than buying $30 of compost 2/3 of the time.
@ponagathos Unless there’s something genuinely wrong with food items I don’t like from Meh, I donate them to a local food pantry. I figure just because I don’t like them, someone else might enjoy them.
Is the collagen also made from beef?
Can you just imagine the ‘cut’ of beef used to make these???
@SnookerDave I don’t have to imagine. I have eaten Slim Jims.
Just to be clear these are not nitrate free. They just don’t add the by cnnnitrates directly, instead they add celery which is high in nitrates. There is no difference between “natural” nitrates and “artificial” nitrates.
So, it is entirely possible for these to have the same or even more nitrates than competitors who add nitrates directly.
@topochicho For those who may not know…what would you want/avoid nitrates?
@tightwad @topochicho
Some people are sensitive to them and get digestive & skin issues from them.
They are also a no no for heart patients on nitro or beta blockers, if I remember right.
Best-by date is like 2 weeks after delivery, no thanks I can’t eat 64 beef sticks in 2 weeks
@chup Slacker.
@chup You really don’t have to eat them in 2 weeks unless you personally deem “Best By” the throw-away date, which it isn’t. The inventory ranges from 4/26-5/17, although we can’t guarantee which dates you will get
@chup @Trinityscrew
That’s not what the guys at the bar are saying.
@chup @troy
Not best, but still pretty good…