The South African Snacks Americans Keep Searching For (And Can't Find Locally)
There's a specific kind of frustration that hits anyone who's tasted real South African biltong, droëwors, or boerewors and then tried to find it again back home. The grocery store's "international" aisle has nothing close. The gas station jerky tastes like a completely different food. Even specialty import shops, when you can find one, often carry a watered-down version made for a market that's never actually experienced the real thing. Howdysnax exists because two South African guys ran into that exact problem themselves. Rather than settling for a compromise, they started making the snacks they actually grew up with, biltong, droëwors, boerewors, and rusks, using traditional methods instead of shortcuts designed to appeal to an American palate that's never known any different. Here's a closer look at what makes each of these snacks worth understanding, and why so many people end up searching for them online rather than finding them on a store she...