Ass jerky dried on the saddle bag
Ass jerky is lean meat cut from a human or a ghoul, dehydrated to prevent spoilage. It's one of The Ghoul's own recipes, who uses cuts sliced with a hawkbill knife from the largest muscle in the human body, the gluteus maximus (thus the name), and dried in the sun on his saddle bag, attached with a string. This is similar to preparing beef jerky using top-round cuts.[1]
He rationalizes this cannibalism as a simple necessity: "Sometimes a fella's got to eat a fella."[2]
Notes[]
- Ass jerky is in principle the same thing as human remains available in Fallout: New Vegas, after becoming a cannibal and consuming 25 corpses, completing the Dine and Dash challenge.
- In principle, ass jerky is also likely the same as the strange meat found in Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3.
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- ↑ Fallout TV series, Season 1, Episode 4: "The Ghouls"
- ↑ The Ghoul: "Well, Lucy MacLean, it ain't all canned peaches and marmalade left up here, sweetheart. Sometimes a fella's got to eat a fella."
Lucy MacLean: "You know, my vault has endured hardship, too. In the Great Plague of '77, everyone had to quarantine, they couldn't work the farms together. People starved. My mother included. My dad dropped to 128 pounds, and he still refused to do anything like this. What? What's so funny?"
The Ghoul: "Well, there's what people say they did and what they really did. I'll bet your daddy was first in line at the cookout. I bet he had a bib with a drawing of his neighbor's ass on there."
Lucy MacLean: "How do you live like this? Why keep going?"
The Ghoul: "Well, one good question deserves another. Why the fuck am I doing all the work? Now come on, Vaultie. Ass jerky don't make itself."
("The Ghouls")