Frequently asked questions

Yes. We say "found" on the packaging because it fits on the label, but the animals come off the road, under state salvage permits, collected by our own crews. We have never hidden this. It is the name of the company.

Roadkill salvage is legal in more than a dozen states, and people have been doing it far longer than we have. Our version adds rules: recovery within the hour, cold chain from the shoulder onward, processing at a licensed and inspected facility, and cooking to a verified internal temperature before drying. Any animal that fails inspection leaves the program. Most do. The bag you're holding is the exception, in every sense.

Wine names the hillside. Coffee names the farm. We name the coordinates, because that's where the flavor came from and we can prove it. The marker also settles arguments at tastings, since you can drive there and stand at it. Try that with a hillside in Burgundy.

Maybe. Call the recovery line on any bag and stay with your vehicle. If a patrol can reach you inside the hour and the animal passes field checks, it enters the program, and you get store credit under our Finders Program. Credit scales with the animal. The moose call of March 2025 is still the record, and the caller has not paid for jerky since.

Constantly. Supply is set by traffic, weather, and the animals' own decisions, none of which we control. Route 2 Mile 118 restocks roughly once a year for reasons that will be obvious if you have seen a moose. When a marker is gone, the shop page says so, and no, we cannot rush it. We've explained this to the impatient with a phrase we now print on stickers: the road provides on its own schedule.

The armadillo is cooked to a verified internal temperature well past every published guideline, then dried, then tested. It is the most scrutinized item in our catalog and, we would argue, the most scrutinized armadillo in Texas. It's also delicious, which nobody who asks this question expects.

Not yet. Produce trucks do occasionally lose cargo, and we have an employee in Georgia monitoring a promising stretch for peaches. We make no announcements at this time.

You can nominate a stretch through the wholesale form, and our route planners review every submission against traffic counts and crossing data. Be patient. A marker earns its place on the label the hard way, and we are not in the business of making that happen sooner.