The "Y" in Jerky
So the PJ's Jerky story......this might be a little boring for everyone so I'll keep it short (a bit like me)!!
I'm a chef by trade so that might piece everything together a bit easier, but really I'll most likely ramble on! If that's the case jump over to the online store and buy some of our fantastic Beef Jerky, Pork Crackle and out Promo gear.
So back to the story, I had had a career change and working in an underground mine (Cadia East)
just outside of Orange NSW. While working there I was looking for a high energy snack, that was easy to handle in hot conditions and that was easy to have on hand. So I came up with the idea of Jerky, making it just for myself to eat while in machines and while working in the heat of the underground environment. But it turned out I wasn't eating any!!! Most of my Co-workers ended up eating it and I'd get one or two pieces out of a packet.
So with my business brain I saw a market that could supply and support my hobby of making Beef Jerky. So it started in 2014 selling one flavour of Beef Jerky to co-workers, that flavour is now called Ophir Gold. Then came requests from friends and co-workers of other flavours!! So I made a chilli flavour now Bathurst Hotlap, then the same with the Teriyaki flavour now Ushiku and then Pork Crackle the Cadia Crunch. Later came the Cracked Black Pepper the Manildra Miller once I had moved to Manildra.
So to answer many questions by the family of followers of PJ's Jerky, where and why did I come up with the names of my products. I have named all the products from areas around the Central West area of New South Wales. Ophir Gold is named after Ophir in New South Wales, where the first payable gold was found in Australia. Hence I was on a winner of my own gold rush, so it was fitting of the name.
Bathurst Hotlap, well its hot!! And the world famous race track in Bathurst, so it was just like a hot lap around the race track in Bathurst so that how that came about.
Ushiku, well that's an interesting one!! I was living in Orange when I started making the Jerky, and to continue the play on words and to mix the flavours with the local area. So Teriyaki is Japanese, so to link it to Orange....look for Orange's sister city in Japan..Ushiku. Now the newest flavour of Jerky is the Manildra Miller, it's name came from the flour mill in Manildra now the town in between Orange and Parkes where I now live. As to get cracked black Pepper you need to mill it, so another name done.
Then the Pork Crackle!!! It came from the mine that I worked at outside of Orange, at the site of a historic gold mining village Cadia. The mine had a number of large seismic events that caused some damage to the underground mine, no one was hurt luckily!! So I thought it was only fitting to call it after the Cadia Crunch.
So that's a brief run down of my hobby....it sometimes doesn't feel like a hobby with the amount I make but its my crazy hobby. It keeps me occupied and pays for extra stuff for my kids, that's why you should alway support small business instead of big business. And so it goes on, who knows where it will go in the future.
PJ
I'm a chef by trade so that might piece everything together a bit easier, but really I'll most likely ramble on! If that's the case jump over to the online store and buy some of our fantastic Beef Jerky, Pork Crackle and out Promo gear.
So back to the story, I had had a career change and working in an underground mine (Cadia East)
just outside of Orange NSW. While working there I was looking for a high energy snack, that was easy to handle in hot conditions and that was easy to have on hand. So I came up with the idea of Jerky, making it just for myself to eat while in machines and while working in the heat of the underground environment. But it turned out I wasn't eating any!!! Most of my Co-workers ended up eating it and I'd get one or two pieces out of a packet.
So with my business brain I saw a market that could supply and support my hobby of making Beef Jerky. So it started in 2014 selling one flavour of Beef Jerky to co-workers, that flavour is now called Ophir Gold. Then came requests from friends and co-workers of other flavours!! So I made a chilli flavour now Bathurst Hotlap, then the same with the Teriyaki flavour now Ushiku and then Pork Crackle the Cadia Crunch. Later came the Cracked Black Pepper the Manildra Miller once I had moved to Manildra.
So to answer many questions by the family of followers of PJ's Jerky, where and why did I come up with the names of my products. I have named all the products from areas around the Central West area of New South Wales. Ophir Gold is named after Ophir in New South Wales, where the first payable gold was found in Australia. Hence I was on a winner of my own gold rush, so it was fitting of the name.
Bathurst Hotlap, well its hot!! And the world famous race track in Bathurst, so it was just like a hot lap around the race track in Bathurst so that how that came about.
Ushiku, well that's an interesting one!! I was living in Orange when I started making the Jerky, and to continue the play on words and to mix the flavours with the local area. So Teriyaki is Japanese, so to link it to Orange....look for Orange's sister city in Japan..Ushiku. Now the newest flavour of Jerky is the Manildra Miller, it's name came from the flour mill in Manildra now the town in between Orange and Parkes where I now live. As to get cracked black Pepper you need to mill it, so another name done.
Then the Pork Crackle!!! It came from the mine that I worked at outside of Orange, at the site of a historic gold mining village Cadia. The mine had a number of large seismic events that caused some damage to the underground mine, no one was hurt luckily!! So I thought it was only fitting to call it after the Cadia Crunch.
So that's a brief run down of my hobby....it sometimes doesn't feel like a hobby with the amount I make but its my crazy hobby. It keeps me occupied and pays for extra stuff for my kids, that's why you should alway support small business instead of big business. And so it goes on, who knows where it will go in the future.
PJ