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!
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