I swear mine was 4 though. Wintergreen, Skoal, Copenhagen and maybe it was Happy Days.
Posted on 04/06/2014 10:10:33 PM PDT by This Just In
Carlos Gonzalez of the Colorado Rockies returned to lineup on Friday after leaving the game the night before after he swallowed some smokeless tobacco.
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I remember this like it was yesterday. Back in the day you could send away (from a magazine or something I forget) and FOR FREE they would send you a tin of Copenhagen, Skoal, and two others for a total of 4. I did this when I was like 12 or 13 or something. Doesn’t even seem possible but I swear it happened. Tried small amounts and it was fine and then I bit off more than I could chew (so to speak) got sick and that was the end of my chewing career.
I chewed it, and made the mistake of accidentally swallowing a small amount of the juice. I got so sick I had to go home at noon, something I had never done, and there, puked out my guts.
The co-worker had told me of his time in the shipyards in WWII. He said the men were paid by the inch of welding they did on Liberty Ships so they would weld, chew, and just spit in their helmets so as to never break a weld bead.
Where I used to work, many of the men dipped snuff. I noticed one day that they never spit. They had developed such a tolerance for it that they just swallowed it.
One co-worker told me of his attempts to quit. He said he would be cutting hay, take a dip, decide then to quit and throw his snuff (SKOAL) away. Before the end of the day, he would be combing the bushes where he threw the can trying to find it. He said he was so used to the snuff he considered it as smelling a new mown hay fields.
Mark
4 for free. That had to be back in the day. Well, It seems to me that for those who try smokeless, you’re either hooked or you just don’t like it.
There ya go, I am a tequila guy, never got a taste for whiskey.
Amazing stories. A person becomes so tolerant that they swallow rather than spit? I can’t imagine what that does to your stomach after a while.
No, it’s Dave. :^)
I swear mine was 4 though. Wintergreen, Skoal, Copenhagen and maybe it was Happy Days.
Rum for me. I tried tequila twice. Never cared for it.
I don't know if tobacco is strong enough to discourage a tapeworm though.
Back in college, a buddy of mine was two-fisting at a party. One cup had his (rather strong) mixed drink, the other was his “dip cup”. He was several sheets to the wind when he made the inevitable mixup.
How he kept from hurling is beyond me. I tried dipping one time when another buddy of mine let me try his Kodiak. My lip started to bleed and I spit the stuff out in less than a minute.
Great add. I believe you.
Is Charlie wearing a rattlesnake hat band?
That’s all you need is a tapeworm hooked on chew (pun intended).
Plug apple jack and redman, how can you go wrong? Fightin’, foot racin’ or shootin’ ‘n rootin’ tootin’? He went wobbly over a chaw swaller? Not likely.
lol.
Chew is hardcore.
heh heh, that could make for a mean worm.
You got a real disgusting habit.
"Copenhagen, Skoal...and for you guys just starting out...mild Happy Days."
Boy they'd NEVER get away with an ad like that today.
BTW, Happy Days used to come in some fruit flavor, too. Raspberry if I recall. So that might have been can #4.
What habit’s that? 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten said:
“Tried small amounts and it was fine and then I bit off more than I could chew (so to speak) got sick and that was the end of my chewing career.”
My mother kept a spit can on the ironing board.
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