United States of Jerky

11/13/2018

11/13/2018

11/13/2018

11/12/2018

3 years and 1800 miles since our last post in 2015.

Be on the lookout for a new name and a possible revival of our little jerky company in Connecticut. Working with the health department on starting up again. Excited!

Just took a batch of Pineapple Teriyaki off the dehydrator. Just as good as I remember!

04/20/2015

Update: We posted around Easter to see if anyone would be interested in ordering Jerky and did not receive any responses. Due to the time and money upfront that needs to be spent in order to make our jerky, and the apparent lack of interest, we will not be returning to the farmers market this season. The process is super labor intensive which makes it hard with the new baby, and Mike will be retiring shortly so there is a lot up in the air that adds to this being very tough right now.

Perhaps we can do a few small personal batches in the near future if people are in fact interested? Feel free to reach out. Thanks for the support guys sorry for the bad news!

04/07/2015

There is someone on Craigslist selling jerky with a name and packaging rediculously similar to ours in this area. It's not us! Just wanted to set the record straight to avoid any confusion or bad reviews in case theirs stinks lol.

04/06/2015

Hope Everyone had a wonderful Easter!

Would anyone be interested in Jerky? We are still unsure about the Farmers Market Situation but would like to do a batch in the meantime.

If you are interested please comment!

We have our online store available under the "SHOP NOW" tab above with Pineapple and Smokey Pepper. If there is enough interest in another flavor we can add it on.

We will be taking FULL payment in advance. No exceptions!

If interested in having some shipped please contact us before placing an order!

Orders will not be ready in 120 minutes. They will be ready approximately a week from when the last order is placed and we buy our supplies.

We would like to have this ready in about a week so if you are interested please contact us asap.

****$6.00 per quarter LB. Pickup is free. Location and date TBD. Optional Shipping depends on weight.****

03/22/2015

Say hello to the newest member of the USOJ family, Jace! He was born March 12th and is doing great! We are unsure ar this time if we will be coming back to the farmer's market this year. It looks as though we may be moving sooner than expected so between that and the new baby it does not leave much time for jerky. We will keep everyone posted.-erica

01/24/2015

I have tried to reach out to those who messaged in. We had a bunch of interest for orders and now only 2 people have showed up for pickup :(

unfortunatly we will not be able to continue selling when no one shows up to pick up what they told us they were interested in and we lose out on money. This will be our last batch.

We will be here for a little while longer. If you would like to stop by let us know otherwise we can meet up over the weekend to try to sell off the rest of what we have. Thank you to those who prepaid and to those who stopped by to pick up their orders.

01/24/2015

01/24/2015

It's a little chilly out her folks but we are set up!

Come find us at tractor supply in killeen! 9 to 1

We tried a new technique with some of our teriyaki this week. Guinea pig tester bags will be 4.00 for a quarter pound. We only have a couple though!

We included a few pieces in each bag to let you guys try it but I personally think our original way is better! Always good to try new things though!!

01/23/2015

Last batch of jerky is dehydrating!!!!! Whew! remember we will be out tomorrow at:

Pioneer Farmers market
Killeen tractor supply parking lot
(Behind McCallisters)
8 am - noon or 1 ish depending on weather.

01/22/2015

Had to buy more meat today after dehydrating both the pineapple and the regular teriyaki and realizing we would totally run out pretty quickly! Two more batches are now marinating. Spoke with the Pioneer Farmers Market today and we are a go for Saturday!

Erica was also asked to bring out some of the new jewelry she has been working on for The Playful Peacock so we will have that out there as well!

01/20/2015

First couple batches of jerky should be ready tomorrow afternooon!

I have this strange feeling we might need to get some more meat we have had more orders come in. I will reach out to those who requested bags otherwise we will have first come first serve at the farmer's market Saturday!

If you need or want tog pick up before Saturday please let me know. Otherwise I will assume you will be there for pickup. Thanks guys!

01/18/2015

Jerky is marinading! Got a late start after we went to test drive a car yesterday and the dealership lost Mikes ID. What a disaster!!! Been running around like crazy but the ID has been located and the Jerky is started. whew!!!

01/16/2015

What a beautiful Friday! Mikes got the day off we were thinking of heading to food truck Friday for lunch. Has anyone been? Is it any good? Yum yum yum my fat pregnant butt is excited!!!

01/15/2015

Hello!!

We wanted to share some news with everyone! We have been using Square for awhile and recently we were able to get our online marketplace store up and running through Square.Before we had been using an Etsy shop we set up for special orders. There are some kinks to work out with this system but it would offer a centralized location to order through day or night we would get your order! It also links with our square card swiper! We have people messaging posting etc and keeping track of names and orders can get difficult. We also ran into the no show problem which this would hopefully eliminate.

1. We are asking for orders to be placed through this store if you would like bags held for you for pickup.

2. Do you HAVE to order online? No but as a reminder we run first come first serve if you do not place an order. We also ask for payment if you will be ordering more than 2 bags. We spend alot of money and time on ingredients. If you order and dont show up we get screwed. We buy meat based on current orders.

3. Square offers limited options. The store is NOT PERFECT. For example, it has some disclaimer that your order will be ready in 120 minutes. Your order WILL NOT be ready in 120 minutes obviously it will be ready at our booth that week for pickup. We are hoping they begin offering different modifications for orders that will make more sense for a variety of businesses.

4. There is no option to add items or put that certain items are out of stock for the week. We have Habanero, Pineapple, Regular Teriyaki, and Smokey Pepper available this week. Please do not choose flavors off the store that are not available! Theres no way to turn the other 2 off without deleting half the store each week depending on what we make.

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01/15/2015

Cassi Foster!!!!!!

Thank you to everyone who entered! :) We will do these more often it was fun!

If you didnt win dont get sad....get GLAD! Lucky for you if you let us know what type of Jerky you want, we will have it set aside just for you!!! Unlucky for you, you will have to pay whoomp whoomp but you still get your jerky!

See everyone is a winner at USOJ!!!! wooohoooo!!!!
Jerky for all!!! Jerky for all!!!

01/14/2015

We will be doing the drawing at 6pm! Get your last minute comments in for a chance to win the free bag of jerky!

01/14/2015

WAHOO!! We hit 250 likes! Keep the comments coming on the previous post for a chance to be entered into our 250 likes free jerky giveaway! One person who comments on the post will be randomly selected for the free bag of jerky.

If you are also interested in purchasing some this upcoming week please message me so I know how much we need to make!

01/14/2015

We are 8 fans away from 250! Lets do a little giveaway! Please comment on this post letting us know you are able to see our recent posts! (you could even share this with friends if you were feeling super nice!) When we hit 250 likes we will be be giving away a FREE bag to one lucky commenter chosen at random!

*note* This contest is open for pickup only guys we will not be shipping jerky. Thank you!!

01/14/2015

Morning!!Just realized baby jerky prince will be making his debut in less than 2 months!

I'm thinking I will have my hands pretty full for awhile come March sooooo we would like to get some jerky out in the next week.

Don't want to leave our fans hanging for months and months. Have a few people interested already. Please message call text post whatever if you are interested in a bag or 2 or 10 to hold you over lol!!!

Erica

12/29/2014

Thinking about doing a jerky run this week. Would anyone be interested? Flavors? Let us know and we will see if we can get enough interest to fire up the dehydrator!!! We will be asking for half down upfront on larger orders.

Perfect hangover food for New Years!!!!!

12/20/2014

Happy Saturday everyone! We have had a few requests for orders. If we can get enough interest and orders we are hoping to maybe get a batch up and running after the Holidays.

The smallest amount of meat we are able to buy at one time is a 15 pound piece that we then slice up by hand. This is why we have had to turn a few people down lately for individual orders as we would have to buy 15 pounds of meat minimum. Sorry guys!

Again if we get enough interest and enough people looking to purchase we will be happy to get some orders out after the holidays!!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!!