GOODVIEW, Minn. – Jerky miester Jeremy Littel has bought property in Goodview to build a 15,000-square-foot retail store with an outside music venue and warehouse. The site is at a former state-operated truck weigh station at Highway 61 and 54th Avenue. “Time to grow,” he said. Littel has retailers in 20 states that stock his Kickkass jerky in more flavors than you can count. He also has new Kickass product lines: Snack sticks, pickled products, olives, gift cards soaps and bloody mary and other mixes. He sees the new store as a destination for out-of-towners – kind of like Lark Toy up the road in Kellogg or Wall Drug in South Dakota L.L. Bean in Freeport Maine.
Littel. His Kickass enterprise has outgrown his home in Goodview. Latest product: “Wash Ya Ass,” a handmade bar soap promoted as having “sparkling notes of pink wine, black currant, candied strawberry, pear blossom and pink jasmine.”