Here’s something meaty to chew on.
In celebration of the third annual National Jerky Day on Thursday, a mouthwatering 1,600-pound model of Mount Rushmore covered in dry meat – appropriately dubbed Meat Rushmore – will be on display all day in Columbus Circle.
It took Jack Link’s beef jerky company around 1,400 hours to create the veritable meat mountain – which is colossal like the skyscrapers surrounding it at 13-feet tall and 17-feet wide.
Three kinds of jerky were used to sculpt the presidential structure: beef, pork and turkey.
“It celebrates America’s lifelong relationship with meat snacks,” art director Alex Valhouli says in a behind-the-scenes video about the making of the sculpture. “The big challenge with meat sculpting is that it hasn’t been done before and you can’t possible know what to expect.”
Expect the to see the meaty faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.