Road Trip Season Is Here, Win Some Meat Snacks
If you’ve spent any amount of time in Calgary in the last 40 years, you’ve seen and/or consumed Big Chief beef jerky countless times. Found in gas stations, convenience stores and at pretty much every stop along the highway, their beef jerky has been a road trip staple for generations. Big Chief beef jerky is tender, really tasty, and a high source of protein, which has made it really popular among people who eat food. Beef jerky generally pairs well with camping, fishing, hiking, skiing, mountain biking, walking, running, or any other outdoor activity. You can also nom jerky during those crazy intense Twitch sessions. Anytime is a good time for beef jerky. If you had some right now you’d be eating it. Same.
We’ve partnered up with Big Chief to give away one of their road trip packs, full of meat! This is a sponsored post.
About Big Chief
Big Chief is family owned and operated, and has been since first opening up shop in Calgary all the way back in 1971. All of their beef jerky is made with 100% Canadian beef, and all of their beef jerky products are 100% gluten free. You can order from their website directly to get jerky delivered to your door, or at Calgary Co-op if you’re out grocery shopping.
A Message from Bert, the owner
When I was seven years old my family immigrated to Canada from Germany. We moved to Toronto and then worked our way West until we found our home in Calgary. We were a family of five until my little sister was born in the mid-60’s. We had a few delicatessens before we started making beef jerky in 1971. We sold the deli’s in the early 80’s due to the success we had selling our beef jerky. When people used to come by our facility they always referred to my Dad, Wilhelm Klein as the “Big Chief” hence we named our product line after him.
My Dad passed away in 1977 leaving the company to my Mother, my three sisters and me to run.
I am a shy, quiet and humble man, passionate about jerky. I am the creator behind the jerky that you have enjoyed all these years and prefer the back-end production process to the front end paperwork and sales side. I have always left that role to the powerful women in my life. As the sole owner of the company now, I have my three daughters helping me run the company. We keep it simple…great tasting jerky…from our family to yours for 48 years and many more to come. BIG TASTE is what you will find from our family recipes for all your BIG ADVENTURES. And trust me with so many women in my life…it has been full of many good times and memories!
| Address | 3900 52 Ave NE, Calgary, AB T3J 3X4 |
| Phone | (403) 264-2641 |
| bigtaste@bigchief.ca | |
| Website | https://bigchiefmeatsnacks.com |
| @bigchiefbeef | |
| @bigchiefbeef | |
| @bigchiefmeatsnacks | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-chief-meat-snacks-inc. |
What You Can Win: Big Chief Road Trip Pack
This is what you can win! A road tip box filled with Big Chief meat, in several different varieties. Perfect to take on a road trip, camping, fishing, or anywhere else where you can use a yummy protein boost. You can share with other people if you want, but nobody is saying you have to. Beef jerky is a higher level of snack and nobody would blame you for eating the entire box.
Each Big Chief road trip pack includes:
- 1x 120g Teriyaki Jerky OR 120g Original Jerky bag
- 1x 80g bag of either Original, Jalapeño, Teriyaki or Hot
- 1x 50g Original pouch
- 1x 30g Jalapeno pouch
- 1x 30g Original beef stick pouch
- 1x 30g Hot pouch
- 1x 30g Teriyaki pouch
- 1x 30g Original pouch
Road Trip Suggestions
Leaving from Calgary, here are a few super rad day trip ideas. Make sure to check ahead to see if they’re open! Hours/dates/times may have changed due to Covid-19.
- Aspen Crossing – Just 45 minutes southeast of Calgary, Aspen Crossing provides visitors with a special train themed getaway with scenic rail tours, unique dining, camping, caboose cabins and more. 14 different train excursions, historical dining car restaurant, replica train station gift shop, green house/garden centre, big rig friendly campground, and beautifully retrofitted caboose cabins.
- Canmore Cave Tours – Go on a natural history tour of Rat’s Nest Cave, one of the longest caves in Canada. Just 1 hour west of Calgary.
- Discovery Wildlife Park – Just over an hours drive north of Calgary, they provide forever homes for orphaned wildlife and any zoo animals that are in need of rescue. There’s camping too!
- Elbow Falls – At just under 1 hour drive from Calgary, Elbow Falls is a great place to spend the day out in the wilderness. Hiking, taking photos, breathing in the freshest of air – it’s a must see.
- Frank Slide – Head 2 hours south of Calgary you’ll find Frank Slide, where a massive rockslide buried part of the mining town called Frank, back in 1903. Check out the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre.
- Nanton Candy Store – The legendary candy store! Simply head south from Calgary on MacLeod trail, which turns into Highway 2, and it’ll take you right there. The drive takes about 1 hour, each way.
- Royal Tyrrell Museum – With a drive time of only 1 hour and 40 minutes, you can spend the day in dinosaur country, Drumheller, Alberta. Browse the museum, dig for artifacts, search for dino D-N-A. While in the area, check out Horseshoe Canyon.
Have any other road trip suggestions? Drop them in the comments below!
How To Win!
You can enter up to 3x for this contest, once on each platform! How it works: we post the same contest to all 3x platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. When the time comes, we randomly pick a semi-finalist winner from each platform. Those semi-finalists will then be numbered 1, 2, and 3. We then use the random.org number generator to randomly pick a number from 1 – 3, resulting in the overall winner! We’ll connect the winner with Big Chief directly to take it from there. Best of luck!
Note! The contest has ended on June 12th, 2020.
- Like @BigChiefMeatSnacks page
- Like @Crackmacs page
- Like/share the contest post
- Tag a friend in the comments (the more people you tag, the more entries – one per line)
- Follow @bigchiefbeef
- Follow @Crackmacs
- Like the contest post
- Tag a friend in the comments (the more people you tag, the more entries – one per line)
- Follow @BigChiefBeef
- Follow @Crackmacs
- Retweet the contest tweet
Contest details
The contest will run from the time you see this, until June 12th 2020 at 10:00 PM. You can enter on each social media platform for a total of 3x entries. Contest open to residents of Calgary, Alberta, 18+.
Conclusion
Beef jerky rules! Best of luck to everyone, we hope you like this contest. Thank you to Big Chief for not only allowing us to host this contest, but for hooking some random Calgarian up with a big box of meat! Good times.
Happy road tripping! 🚗🌲🌲⛰️⛰️🌲⛰️🌲🌲
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