I don't think I ever tried chewing tobacco. I did smoke cigarettes for a few years when I was young, especially during that year in Paris. But I quit in 1982. Thankfully, I was never attracted to the just-as-addictive alternative to smoking: chewing tobacco.
Mail Pouch was among the most popular brands of chewing tobacco. Their barn-side advertisements linger to this day.
Digitized B/W print, August 1986.
I did some "strimming" yesterday along the road outside our hedges. I put that in quotes because I think that is the British word for what we Americans call a weed-eater or weed-wacker. I'm guessing that "strimmer" is a contraction of the words "string trimmer." At any rate, those pesky weeds have been "strimmed" away. Until they grow back.
Yep, strimmer is the right word - the English one anyway. Nothing to mow or strim here, our grass looks like straw. And my veg patch has been a complete disaster. This morning I’m sitting outside to enjoy the unusually cool air and the lovely drizzle.
ReplyDeleteStrumming sounds like musical accompaniment. I smoked from the age of 16 to the age of 32. Proud to have never had a cig since. I have always found the idea of hewing tobacco disgusting.
ReplyDeleteArch… chewing.
ReplyDeleteArgh!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, geeeeeze... chewing tobacco. When I was a freshman in college, a girl in our dorm (who was from a farm in deep south west Missouri), used to chew... so, she was always walking around with a big Mizzou cup with tobacco spit water in it. Abbbbbbbbbbsolutely disgusting. And then, one day, she knocked it over IN MY ROOM!
ReplyDeleteI hope that girl in your dorm quit chewing before she had gum issues. My grandfather had a spitoon- so yucky!
Deletejane, sounds nice!
ReplyDeletemitch, there were no banjos involved. ;)
judy, I had to look up Mizzou, and then I thought, duh!