Did you ever chew tobacco?

[sasquatch]

or do you know someone that does? I used to, but quit sometime after 9/11. I used to chew beechnut, red man or Levi Garrett. I would sometimes chew "plug" tobacco on hot days or when fishing. What did you chew?

[Syrinx]

1. I thought rednecks lived in the South?

[trof]

7. Au contraire, mon ami.

During my 16 years in New Hampshire I discovered more RPSMs (Rednecks Per Square Mile) than Alabama ever thought about having.
They just talk different.
;-)

[SiobhanClancy]

18. True..

and my home state(Maine)is just as bad,if not worse:(

[bearfan454]

20. That's exactly right.

[sasquatch]

27. I'm a No-neck not a redneck

Got it now.

[VOX]

2. Once. I put a plug of Red Man in my mouth...

And didn't stop spitting and gagging for five minutes. Talk about an acquired taste!

I still smoke my pipe on occasion, though.

[HornBuckler]

3. Sure Did And Sure Do

I Know It's Not The Best Thing In The World - Started Chewin' Kodiak When I Was About 23 And I'm Still Chewin' (addictive shit it is)

[scarlet_owl]

11. Welcome HornBuckler!

Glad you're here!

[tsakshaug]

4. yes I did

When I played baseball. Started with the skol and the like, but the little pieces kept getting into my mouth and causing problems (if you swallow the crap you puke), went to plug and leaf, liked beechnut. Gave it up when I looked at a cheek scraping under a microscope and found all sorts of stuff I should not have seen.
The buzz was good, not worth getting cancer.

[Dulcinea]

5. No, but I had a (female) college roommate who did.

She used to keep a pouch of Red Man in our dorm fridge. She figured it was the same as smoking a cigarette while drinking.

YUCK!! It's gross enough in men, let alone women!

[arwalden]

6. Ever dip?

Ever seen those shock-photos of young men who have had their lower lip surgically removed because of oral cancer resulting from years of snuff? --- Ugh!!

-- Allen

[sasquatch]

24. Not really

I didn't like dip I prefered chew myself.

[trof]

8. For a very short time.

high school baseball

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Yep,,, I was a construction worker for over 35 years!

Hard to smoke under a welding hood! I had a Sherlock Holmes pipe once that I could smoke with the hood pulled down! The first puff on the pipe was great, but when I blew out the smoke under the hood, I couldn't see anything anymore! I was welding the wrong crack when the smoke cleared out!

One morning I was welding almost nonstop and I didn't have time to stop for a smoke! The night before I had been out drinking and so I Really felt like hell that morning! As soon as I had hooked up my cutting torch, I pushed the air button and took several deep breaths of oxygen from the torch tip!(never try that with a lit torch) The oxygen knocked out the headache and made my belly feel a little better! My stomach still felt like things were crawling around in there, when I decided to stop and take me a chew!

I put a big gob of Beechnut in my jaw and started back welding! About the time I'd burnt about ten rods, I started feeling something in my mouth that felt just like I was chewing on a guitar pick! I stopped welding, pulled up the hood, took off my glove and took the guitar pick like thing out of my mouth! It turned out to be a LARGE piece of insect wing! When I spat out the chew I was amazed to find the rest of the 1 1/2" long Bug was in there too!

Having had a crawley stomach allready from drinking the night before, I was half sick already! I'll have to admit that that morning I lost my groceries in front of Gawd and everybody!

The crane operator still laughs at me to this day, because I told him what made me so sick! He was watching me when I started to hurl and got down off the crane to see if I was OK! That was my LAST poke of Beechnut EVER!

[sasquatch]

31. I used to pick twigs out of my Beechnut

But when I chewed it was my chew of choice:shrug:

[scarlet_owl]

10. My husband tells me that my father-in-law used to chew.

Once, they were on a ferris wheel and his father waited until they were high enough so he could spit onto a tent. My husband asked him why he spit on the tent and he told him he would rather get it on the tent than to have some tobacco juice covered guy waiting for him at the end of the ride.

[dbt]

12. 'Fraid so

I even chewed, took a dip of Sweet Garrett's snuff and lit up a cigar simultaneously once, just for the hell of it. (There was little amusement in rural Arkansas in 1966, so we were forced to make our own.)

Leaf tobacco was my chew of choice. Red Man, Mail Pouch and Beech-Nut were all OK, but Conwood was the business!

Thank GOD I soon discovered whiskey; it broke me from The Chaw!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[vi5]

13. Yes, when I was quitting smoking I chewed and dipped...

Horrible habit but it did help me to quit smoking which was a more immediate threat to my health. And the dipping/chewing was much easier to give up because it was much more difficult to do given the hideousness and messiness of it.

[trof]

14. Ipsy dipsy soda crackuh

does ya papa chew tobaccuh?
yes my papa chews tobaccuh,
ipsy dipsy soda crackuh.

Kind of a "one potato, two potato" thing we did as kids to see who was "it".
:eyes:

[Ediacara]

15. I never did, but a lot of my friends did

I thought it was completely revolting.... In highschool classes they would spit into empty iced tea bottles and pretend they were taking a drink. That was the grossest thing of all...

[Droopy]

16. I used to chew Skoal Mint on occasion

I liked it every once in a while when I was fishing or during a long drive. A long while ago I used to chew a brand of pouch tobacco on occasion. I think it was called Applejack, but I'm not sure.

[LynneSin]

17. Dated a dipper

:eyes:

That stuff is just freaking GROSS!!! I can't tell you how many times I would clean out my car and there would be a bottle of tobacco spit under my car seat.

And btw - Throat and Esophagus cancer is NOT pretty. My uncle had part of his tongue and jaw removed because of it.

[Zuni]

19. I used to dip every now and then

I am a smoker, but if I got sick or felt like not smoking I would get a tin of Skoal Straight.

[Noordam]

21. In Lubbock Texas in 67 at Texas Tech

but I could only take Lubbock for one year and joined the Army and went to Viet Nam. Some places are better than Lubbock like war zones.

[alfredo]

22. I used to work the tobacco farms. You do not want to put that crap

in your mouth. If you knew what shit, pissed, died on and in those bales of tobacco, you would not touch tobacco again.

[sasquatch]

25. I was raised on a farm and trust me...

there is a lot of shit that pisses and die in your food too.

[Piperay]

23. YUCK....

I would think that having that stuff in your mouth would ruin your taste buds and make everything taste like tabacky. :puke:

[sasquatch]

26. That's why I quit

I love food too much:)

[xJlM]

28. Mail Pouch

Not too sweet, a good tobacco flavor. Did that about twenty years ago. I've also dipped Copenhagen, but it kills my gut. All that stuff is horrible for your teeth and gums anyway, so I only chew the tobacco that comes out of the end of a Camel now.

[sasquatch]

30. My great uncle used to chew that

Do you remember when you ordered a "value size" pouch in the mail it came in a leather mail pouch? My grandpa still has that and it's still in mint condition although he uses it on trips all the time.

[FlemingsGhost]

29. True story:

My sophmore year in high school, I made the varsity baseball team and was vying for the starting catcher position. We were scrimmaging our crosstown rivals and I was feeling mighty big for starting my very first varsity game.

While chew is "officially" banned from high school sports, it is rampant. A few seniors put a tin of Skoal in my face, and told me to add it to my wad of gum. "It'll give you a pick-me-up" they said. So, I did. During warm-ups, I forgot, and swallowed a whole bunch of the stuff.

Long story short, I ended up puking right on the home plate umpire's shoes! My coaches and teammates were literally on the ground busting a gut... I got starting the job, but everytime we had a beef with the calls from a home plate umpire, my coach would tell me to "dirty his shoes."

Never touched the stuff again...

[Spirochete]

32. I tried it a few times

the stuff always gave me the hiccups. One time I got into my dad's Copenhagen, and ended up swallowing a lot of it. I got so damn sick. And my dad, my grandfather, and my uncle were sitting around laughing at me, and sticking cans of that shit in my face, offering me a chew. I was miserable.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

33. When I was nine or ten years old

A farmer down the road offered to my friends and me. He had a good laugh watching us all wretch -- never tried it again.