Meat Maniac

Awesome and unique store!!! Get all of your jerky cravings!!! Most unique store around best place to get novelty gifts. Definitely for bacon lovers!

Great business and lots of variety of things to try. Tons of Bacon flavored and themed things so there is no shortage of good snacks and odd gifts and gags to buy. Some of my favorite things include the Bacon Salsa, Bacon Jerky of all variety, and their variety of wild game jerky. Also you can buy online if you’re unable to go into the store but of course shipping not included.
Also, the bug snacks are great tricks, or treats depending on the victim. No shortage of weird there with Scorpion suckers, seasoned crickets and larvae, and other crazy would never in my life try insects. The owner is also very helpful and definitely a meat maniac. They’ve got something for whatever tastes you might be feeling or trying to fill.

Three times I came on their stated business time and none of the time they were open.

Jerky, Bacon & Bugs.
The name made me think it might be a butcher, but there is no raw stuff here. Everything here is heavily processed
Aside from the jerky, everything here makes for a great, small ‘gag gift’. Bacon paraphernalia & Bug snacks. Perfect for people looking for more lean proteins in their diet. Delightfully crunchy. No oils used.
Their jerky is actually ‘functional’, in that it is something one might actually purchase for themselves. All of the jerkys can be found online, but it is convenient to have them all located in one store. Lotsa different game meat jerkies, such as Alligator, Kangaroo or Ostrich meat, then there are house made jerkies & many different brand jerkies.
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My 5 star rating is based almost entirely on their bug snack selection. That alone earns my admiration. I am sure that sticking an entire Rhino Beetle into my mouth is a lovely experience. (One that I wasn’t brave enough to enjoy on my first visit… but I shalt return!)

Great place for Jerky and sauces. Friendly & knowledgeable staff. This is the place to oh for Jerky! A wide variety!

Entering Meat Maniac feels like coming home. If my home was filled with meat. Okay so it’s more of my ideal home that I wish I could live in, but hey close enough.
I found Meat Maniac while driving up Plano Road for a meeting. If I had more time I would have stopped in that second, but responsibility got the better of me so I held off on visiting for a day. Usually I have some sense of an idea of what I’m getting into before visiting a business, but in this case I really wasn’t prepared.
Before entering Meat Maniac, all I knew about it was the title. I assumed that the owner was a radically excited purveyor of meat products, but I’ve been wrong in my assumptions before. What if it ended up being a sting operations center for PETA and as soon as I opened the door a net would fall on my head and I would hear a voice over a speaker saying «We caught another one of those meat eaters! Put him in a cell where he can only eat tofu for the rest of his life!»
Thankfully, I was right in my first assumption. Meat Maniac is perfectly defined by its name. Part meat, part crazy, all fun. They’ve got every kind of beef, antelope, kangaroo, camel, Turkey, chicken, alligator, possum, etc etc etc Jerky you could ever want. A full third of the store is taken up by Jerky products.
Another third of the store is full of bacon themed treats, gifts, popcorn, ketchup, rubs, spices, soda, and yes, even bacon deodorant. If you like bacon in any sense of the word, then you will find something for you here at Meat Maniac.
The final third of the store is where the Maniac side really comes out. It’s like going into the Beyond department at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. There’s all sorts of knick knacks, paddy whacks, and other fun toys in this section — all of them meat themed! Except for the edible insects. Those aren’t really meat.
After spending 15 minutes talking to Rhett (I think that was his name? Hard to recall right now, my bad), I picked out some bacon salt, bacon ketchup, and Kangaroo Jerky. They were all excellent decisions, with the bacon ketchup being my favorite.
After thinking about my visit while writing this review, I gotta say that I will definitely be back, if only to buy more bacon ketchup. With all of its jerkies, spices, and yes, even edible insects, Meat Maniac fills a void that has been sorely lacking in DFW.
So where do they go from here? I realize this would be a huge undertaking, but I would love to see them expand into selling game meats for grilling. I would be by a couple times per month if I could get Kangaroo, gator, camel, and other exotic meats to make into burgers.
For now though, Meat Maniac is fulfilling it’s name very well, and I hope to see it continue to grow. From one Meat Maniac to another, you need to visit this place.