My Granny's favorite.
Posted on 04/06/2014 10:10:33 PM PDT by This Just In
I’ve never witnessed a woman dip snuff, ...
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In the early ‘50s, when I was 10-14 years old, I helped my grandparents in their corner grocery store when I visited a few weeks each Summer.
I often ran the cash register and made MANY sales of Garrett Snuff (about a nickle then) to elderly women from the neighborhood. I also would carry their sacks of groceries while walking with them to their homes several blocks away. These were mostly black ladies and they would tip me a nickle and thank me for helping them.
I became a regular smoker at 14 and 57 years later I’m still a smoker. Quit once for six months when in early 20s just to gain weight and was drinking lots of egg milkshakes, etc. Went from 6’1” 145 to 180 and then started smoking again. I’ve never had a major illness or been in a hospital for anything. Still have tonsils, appendix, etc.
My stomach is fine, been dipping Copenhagen for about 50 years and don’t spit. Then again I don’t look like an over indulging chipmunk either, some of those guys look like their cheeks are going to explode. Just a pinch please!
Happy Days used to have a raspberry flavor.
Me too - Levi Garrett. I’ve chewed for about 30 years. I smoked too, for 50 years, I quit that about 6 years ago, figured I’d give my lungs a break.
I still have 30 of the 32 teeth that I’m supposed to have, lost one back tooth on each side 50 years ago to a military dentist who needed the practice.
“How can you tell a level headed Swede?
Answer: By the amount of tobacco running out BOTH sides of his lips.
I had a similar experience with my sister, Jan. 2014. We were not geographically close, so I'd call every once in a while. I called her last in Jan. and she clearly did not want to talk, just too sick. I knew the end was very near because she always loved it when I called, I said a few words and then let her go. A few days after that, she passed away.
A non smoker, she died of liver cancer.
My first experience was with the neighborhood kids that stole a tin of Skoal Bandits from their older brother... I only recall the chunks of hotdogs I spewed 10 minutes later... but now, 30 years later, any time I smell wintergreen I wanna wretch.
I have kinda the same reaction to smelling tequilla, actually... though I never got sick from tequilla.
Years ago, I worked on a pipeline project and got to know the foreman real well. He would put half a pouch of Beechnut in his mouth and tuck it around in his jaw.
At lunch time he would pack it down with his finger and eat lunch with it in his mouth.
His head was so large, his ears stuck out beyond the rim of his aluminum hard hat. I could drop my class ring through his very large wedding band.
He was a Camilla breeder and developed champion one of a kind hybrids. To appease the admiral’s wife through who’s yard we were digging a very large ditch, he gave her a prize winning camilla
From Predator?
That’s a real nasty habit you’ve got there. No, I was thinking more along the lines of a Clint Eastwood movie.
Reckon he go to the same shade of green as the field?
Yes, I've seen those pictures of rotten teeth and cancers.
But it's damn near impossible to quit.
I can go a day, maybe two, but it keeps pulling me back in.
I wish I'd never started.
It's hell.
Heh, I even used to kiss girlfriends while I was dipping. That was interesting!
Haha, in Predator, Carl Weathers leans over and said that (or close to it) to Jesse Ventura after Jesse spits on his shoe.
Get to the choppa!
My daddy dipped for 50+ years (and never spit, btw, that’s for the weak) till his heart doctor raised a ruckus about it. My hubby dipped for 25 years. So did my kid brother. Until kid brother needed surgery to do a skin graft on his gums. That freaked me out and scared me. So I asked our dentist to fuss at my hubby about his chewing. And, as far as I know, he’s quit. At least at home LOL. I wasn’t going to nag about that myself, understand.
Yep, Diamondback.
My Granny's favorite.
Let me guess.....nobody messed with your granny.
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