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  • But it is 'Pemmican' to an aged and enfeebled digestion.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • But it is 'Pemmican' to an aged and enfeebled digestion.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • Company, I cancelled many of these notes, which had become defaced, mainly owing to the fingering of Indians and others, who left behind on the thick yellow paper coatings of "Pemmican," -- the pounded flesh and fat of the buffalo, done up in skins like sausages -- a food eminently nutritious and lasting long, but fearfully odorous and nasty.

    Canada and the States 1860

  • For instance, the use of Pemmican (I hope I have spelled it correctly) helped the very early frontiersmen in the US survive.

    Music Of Your Life 2009

  • Bigger brands, such as Oberto, Pemmican and Jack Link's, shelled out big bucks to snag space at grocery chains like Albertson's and Safeway

    Perky Jerky's Marketing Makeover 2010

  • Pemmican is food with almost the highest energy density possible so that a very large amount of calories can be carried without any replenishment.

    Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Pemmican is made of jerky and fat, and, according to Stefansson, many people have survived for long periods on jerky alone, so I doubt the deaths were caused by the pemmican unless the pemmican were somehow tainted.

    Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • ConAgra, for example, e-mailed us that, “a tiny amount of Pemmican is impacted: only 0.00017 percent of total cases sold of all Pemmican for 2007 contains beef sourced from Westland/Hallmark.”

    Largest meat recall results in related food recalls 2008

  • Even as Rodkin and the CEOs of Bumble Bee, Dole and Butterball testified, ConAgra's Slim Jim meat and cheese sticks, Pemmican beef jerky, Hunt's spaghetti sauce with meat flavor, Banquet Mac & Cheese and Manwich with beef refrigerated tubs were joining the Do Not Eat Hallmark/Westland recalled meat list.

    Meat Scandal Reaches the Hill 2008

  • ConAgra, for example, e-mailed us that, “a tiny amount of Pemmican is impacted: only 0.00017 percent of total cases sold of all Pemmican for 2007 contains beef sourced from Westland/Hallmark.”

    Largest meat recall results in related food recalls 2008

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