And That's Why I Shouldn't Wander Around Looking For A Restroom

While in search of a restroom on the Chocolate Walk, I wandered down a side street and into an interesting niche shop. Not exactly my niche, but kinda cool nonetheless.

The name of the shop is what sucked me inside.

House. Of. Jerky.

To be honest, I've never been a fan of dried foods, be them meats, fruits, or veggies. I blame two separate reasons.

Reason 1: The fact that I worked at McDonald's while in high school.

With the exception of the Quarter Pounder, McDonald's burgers used reconstituted onions. Reconstituted onions were formerly dried onions, but rehyrdrated with water. Totally turned me off of dried foods. I don't even like raisins. I much prefer them in their undried state as grapes.

Reason 2: For at least a dozen years, my husband and I (along with several friends) attended the Jimmy Buffett concert every summer. Upon one occasion, I imbibed one too many margaritas and wasn't feeling well in the car on the ride home. In his infinite wisdom, my husband pulled into a convenience store to buy himself some teriyaki beef jerky as a snack. Teriyaki beef jerky has it's own particular odor, one that I don't find to be pleasing. My stomach threatened to revolt all over the interior of the car if he didn't immediately throw the jerky out the window.

Long story short, instead of throwing the offending teriyaki beef jerky out of the speeding car, my husband ate the entire bag as quickly as possible, making himself positively reek of the stuff the entire way home. I wasn't amused and didn't forgive him for days.

Thus my aversion to any and all dried foods.

But a store named House of Jerky demands an investigation, especially when they sold turkey jerky. I don't want to eat it, but turkey jerky is dang fun to say. Plus, the House of Jerky advertised kangaroo jerky. Kangaroo jerky isn't something one finds every day in Indiana and I just had to lay eyes upon it.

Sadly, the House of Jerky was sold out of kangaroo jerky. Apparently several Chocolate Walkers needed a salty snack to offset all the sweet treats they had enjoyed and the stash of kangaroo jerky was raided. It was the first of many jerky casualties of the day: the gator, goose, and wild boar were also sold out.

However, there was a surprising amount of teriyaki beef jerky left.

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