What is pemmican?!
What is pemmican?
Answers: Proper traditional pemmican is a concentrated food consisting of dried pulverized meat, dried berries, and rendered fat. The specific ingredients used in it were usually whatever was available; the meat was often bison, moose, elk, or deer. Fruits such as cranberries and saskatoon berries were common, though cherries, currants, chokeberries and blueberries were also used, but almost exclusively in ceremonial and wedding pemmican.
The brand name Pemmican currently refers to at least two unrelated ranges of food products in the USA.
- A brand of beef jerky, based in Omaha, Nebraska and owned by ConAgra.
- A range of high-energy food bars sold under the brand names MealPack and Bear Valley Pemmican by Intermountain Trading Co. Ltd. in Albany, California. These bars are baked from malted corn and barley (with no meat). Bear Valley Foods was threatened with a lawsuit over the use of the Pemmican name, by a multinational corporation (presumed to be ConAgra); however, they were ultimately allowed to keep the name.
NEITHER of these are proper pemmican. Source(s):
Pemmican:
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Pemmican: Recipes, Stories and Stores
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