--- title: Mount Rushmore Beef Jerky Replica Unveiled for National Jerky Day description: It's called "Meat Rushmore," obviously canonical: https://time.com/2865737/heres-mount-rushmore-made-out-of-beef-jerky/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-12T18:04:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:42.951Z og:title: Here's Mount Rushmore Made Out of Beef Jerky og:description: Happy National Jerky Day! og:url: https://time.com/2865737/heres-mount-rushmore-made-out-of-beef-jerky/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte28394e4e5aa59eb/6986975af983e703a004e613/jack-links-celebrate_gros.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jack-Link~s-Celebrate_Gros og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Mount Rushmore Made Out of Beef Jerky twitter:description: Happy National Jerky Day! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte28394e4e5aa59eb/6986975af983e703a004e613/jack-links-celebrate_gros.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's Mount Rushmore Made Out of Beef Jerky by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 12, 2014 6:04 PM UTC  Jack Link’s debuts Meat Rushmore, a 13-foot tall, 17-foot wide meat replica of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, on display Thursday, June 12, 2014, in New York City's Columbus Circle. Jack Link’s debuts Meat Rushmore, a 13-foot tall, 17-foot wide meat replica of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, on display Thursday, June 12, 2014, in New York City's Columbus Circle.Stuart Ramson / Invision for Jack Link's / AP by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 12, 2014 6:04 PM UTC Today is National Jerky Day, so here’s a 13-foot tall, 17-foot wide Mount Rushmore replica covered in more than 1,600 pounds of beef, pork and turkey jerky. Because this is America. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2865737/heres-mount-rushmore-made-out-of-beef-jerky/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2865737/heres-mount-rushmore-made-out-of-beef-jerky/"},"headline":"Here's Mount Rushmore Made Out of Beef Jerky","datePublished":"2014-06-12T18:04:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:42.951Z","description":"It's called \"Meat Rushmore,\" obviously","url":"https://time.com/2865737/heres-mount-rushmore-made-out-of-beef-jerky/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte28394e4e5aa59eb/6986975af983e703a004e613/jack-links-celebrate_gros.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte28394e4e5aa59eb/6986975af983e703a004e613/jack-links-celebrate_gros.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jack-Link~s-Celebrate_Gros","caption":"Jack Link’s debuts Meat Rushmore, a 13-foot tall, 17-foot wide meat replica of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, on display Thursday, June 12, 2014, in New York City's Columbus Circle.","creditText":"Stuart Ramson / Invision for Jack Link's / AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2865737/heres-mount-rushmore-made-out-of-beef-jerky/","name":"Here's Mount Rushmore Made Out of Beef Jerky"}}]}] ```