Holy crud.

[xyzzysqrl]

Meat chips.

Not meat-flavored crisps, like the british pub food. No, I mean, chips of meat made crispy.

This is the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth on purpose. Augh.

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[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Er.. are they crispy because they're dry, or because they're cooked, or because they're deep fried...

And.. I hesitate to ask such a delicate question, but.. what sort of meat would they be?

[xyzzysqrl]

They're very thin and baked. Oven baked, it hastens to add.

And they're beef. Very beef. Incredibly beef. They're like CONCENTRATED beef. One of these is your beef needs for the ENTIRE YEAR.

[foxish.livejournal.com]

As The Squirrelian mentions, they are quite baked. Overbaked, to be honest.

The "chips" are extremely dry and rather brittle--they crack when bitten into, like a potato chip would. The baking process appears to have removed any degree of flavour they ever had left, meaning they taste only like what they've been dunked into liberally. The bag I had, well over a year ago, was "plain", so it was a wonderful snack of crunchy cardboard nuggets.

I gather from other reviews that they have since begun applying liberal bursts of "flavourant" to them, likely powdered beef proteins and a garlic-onion-salt powder. Just like mother used to make when she was quite cross with me.