"lemme give you a what if"
I KNOW its' not jerky but we sell country meats as a fundraiser over 1000 sticks at a time. They made a video about snack sticks.
Skip to 40 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28uu...ature=youtu.be
now you know what your eating with the cheap ones.
They have some amazing and some not so amazing flavors. Their original smoked hickory is a close to GOOD beef jerky as you can get perfect black pepper kick. Bold Terryaki is great and we sell a lot of ghost pepper.
You can buy a box of 144 sticks for .55c each and have meatsticks for months!