why do they call it beef jerky?

Answer 1

Jerky is meat which has been cut into strips with the fat trimmed off, marinated in a spiced, salty or sweet liquid for a desired flavor, then dried with low heat or occasionally salted and sun-dried. The result is a strip of a salty, semi-sweet snack which can be stored for long periods of time without refrigeration. Jerky is one of humankind's earliest applications of food preservation.
The word "jerky" itself comes from the Quechua term Charqui, which means "dried meat".
Throughout human history and culture, drying meat has been a common method employed to preserve it. By drying thinly sliced meat in the sun and wind next to a smoky fire, the meat is protected from insects which would lay eggs in the raw meat. These prehistoric methods to preserve meat for storage have been used by the Inca and many other ancient peoples, who prepared jerky from the animals they hunted or husbanded as an essential matter of need.

Answer 2

the reason why they call it beef jerky is because i am god and i gave the idea to the person who made it and i wrote on a stone tablet saying let it be called jerky and ever since that it has been called jerky now letsnever speak of jerky again

Answer 3

It is also called jerked meat usually made of beef that has been cut into long, thin stripsand dried (tradionally from the sun. It was used by early trappers, just as it is used today but hikers or back packers because it keeps indefinitely and is light and easy to transport. It's quite tough and salty but its very high in protein and flavourful.

Answer 4

That is some really good information I did not even know that's what jerky means I thought it meant YOUR A JERK :)

Answer 5

Cuz women like it
It's alittle like pulled pork

Answer 6

I call it "Cow Raisins"

Answer 7

when the old cowboys ate it, they'd have to bite on it, and jerk on it to tear some of it off.