What a strange creature you are. I assumed that for everyone the comparison to a pickle-in-a-mouth is a positive association. Pickle pouches and dehydrated-seasoned meat strips...yummo! I love beef jerky and will go with the "O" (Oberto, for laymen) if the gas station is out of the good Jack Links. The only jerky I can't get into is the shredded jerky in a chaw cannister. Way too sawdusty. Also, for those who like to get drunk while tasting jerky, try most smoked beers (rauchbiers). New Glarus made a phenomenal smoked porter a year or so ago that used roasted malts and then aged with woodchips used at the smokehouse next door to the brewery. It sounds weird, but it's a culinary explosion of awesomeness once you try it.