The city of Indianapolis has been pretty sweet this week, being the center of the candy and snacking world with 16,000 folks at the 2024 Sweets & Snacks Expo. Along with offering photo ops — on a ...

From local farms to grocery stores and butcher shops, area businesses benefit from a surge in demand for meat sticks. Sales of dried meat snacks – excluding jerky – were up 10.4%, to about $3.29 ...

Meat sticks, once relegated to a gas station guilty pleasure, have experienced a serious reputational glow-up. The ascension of protein as a celebrated pillar of the modern American diet is fueling ...

Sales of meat sticks — think Slim Jims or Chomps — were up significantly last year and became the fastest-growing category in snacks. In total, the Wall Street Journal reported that sales of dried ...