The snack’s popularity has brought a proliferation of new flavors and high-end options. For some fans, that’s a problem.

The meat sticks category made $3.29 billion in sales through the end of last year, says Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer ...

For many consumers, a snack has become less about salty and sweet temptations and more like a mini meal chock-full ... says all three of its meat stick brands—Slim Jim, Duke’s and Fatty ...

American consumers have a growing appetite for what snackers alternately call meat, or snack, sticks, and they’ve never been more spoiled for choice. - Elizabeth Coetzee/WSJ Most mornings ...