Dirk Biltong

The Biltong King
Originally uploaded by thegreatplotnik.

In the Afrikaaner town of Paarl there is a man named Dirk Biltong, whose Biltong King shoppe is known far and wide. Biltong's name is the same as his product: "biltong" is the Afrikaans name for thin strips of dried meat, with tons of flavor, kind of like beef jerky, in the same way a brand new Ferrari is kind of like Plotnik's 12-year-old Plotkicycle. South Africans love their biltong, and Dirk Biltong has become a very wealthy man. He makes his biltong from beef, chicken and ostrich, as well as from wild game like kudu, reebok and foosack. It truly is no understatement to call it Die Beste in die Weste.

Dirk was kind enough to pose under the sign advertising his shop. You can tell from looking at him that Biltong has eaten a lot of his own biltong, which has given him rippling muscles and a gut of steel.