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No one knows the exactly where and when the drying of meat (jerky) began, however it is assumed that early humans found that dried meat lasted a much longer than fresh meat, and did not decay and become infested with insects like the storage of fresh meat. While the dawn of jerky is mysterious we have evidence that it was being produced en mass thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and notably in the mid part of the last millennia. The word ‘jerky’ comes from the Native (South) American Quechua term “ch’arki” (which means “dried meat”), and was well...