Dippers Unite!!

[shilala]

Originally Posted by kaisersozei

Helped ya cling to your guns & religion, didn't it?

Absolutely. I LOVE God and my guns.
Not so fanatic about my guns as most, though. Haven't got time to get obsessed by them.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by kelmac07

Yep...and all because my mother said "I had better not catch you chewing tobacco". Being the "little hellion" that I was...I had to try it and got hooked very early. I started on Wintergreen Beachnut and moved right into Skoal/Copenhagen. That and all my friends were doing it...so it was "cool". Pennsylvania way I suppose.

You beat me, Mac. I didn't start till I was 8.
I used to hide my Union Workmen scrap under the bus stop. I just started cause all the older guys and ballplayers did it. I thought it was badass and when I tried scrap, I loved the honey molasses sweetness.
Didn't start chewing snuff till I was in 6th or 7th grade, I suppose. I wanted to chew Copey and couldn't handle it, so I tried Gold River, got stuck, and switched to Copey a short while later.
The old man chewed Skoal, so I switched to that one summer. It really screwed up my face and I couldn't chew for a few days, so I laid off it till I could go slow and get used to it. Couldn't stand to get beat, ya know?
I'm still amazed at how incredibbly addictive it is. My grandpa chewed till he dies, probably put in a good 80 years. My old man still dips, and I imagine he has a good 60 years in. With 35 years, I'm still the baby.
It's a totally gross habit. I love it.

[WyoBob]

Danged kids!

Here's a couple of threads that might be of interest.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showth...ighlight=skoal
http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showth...ighlight=skoal

To give you the Cliff Notes version: if you haven't started, don't. If you have, quit while you can.

The main reason I quit was because it started to really bother me that chew/dip had such a strong hold on me. The other? I'm not paying those blood sucker's $5.00/can. If they would have kept their prices at a more reasonable level, I would have had a harder time quitting. (Skoal was $.25/can when I started.)

BTW, I did instruct my daughter's that, if they ever wheeled me into a care home, I wanted a roll of Skoal under my blankey!

WyoBob

[kaisersozei]

My farsightedness kicked in and I read this thread as Diapers Unite.

[colinb913]

That would be pretty cool- freebase nicotine. I just packed in a Camel Snus packet.. Pretty cool invention.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by colinb913

That would be pretty cool- freebase nicotine. I just packed in a Camel Snus packet.. Pretty cool invention.

I can't get any weeyoo outta those things. I have about three dips of snuff in my face right now and I could use another big dip. I only got one cigar in today, the first one was a big failure.
Tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy and winddy, so I wont get any cigars in. I'll probably chew at least a couple cans of snuff.

Tonight I am going to give dipping a chance....














Dipping these mini cookies Danielle made in some ice cold milk.

[colinb913]

Wow Scott- you sound like a veteran.. What are some good dips for a starter? I am totally at a loss for this!

[shilala]

Originally Posted by colinb913

Wow Scott- you sound like a veteran.. What are some good dips for a starter? I am totally at a loss for this!

Try Gold River, it's a good starter snuff.
I'll warn you, once you're hooked, it's way harder to quit dipping than to quit smoking. I can sit down cigarettes easy. I'm stuck with snuff for life, I'm afraid. It's nasty.

[kelmac07]

Originally Posted by shilala

Try Gold River, it's a good starter snuff.
I'll warn you, once you're hooked, it's way harder to quit dipping than to quit smoking. I can sit down cigarettes easy. I'm stuck with snuff for life, I'm afraid. It's nasty.

Gold River...it's been over 30 years since I had any of that. Didn't realize it was still around. That's what got me started.

[colinb913]

Sounds good, I just don't want to get the collection of brown water bottles strewn about the house like some of my uncles have.. I will never ever touch a cigarette. That's the one tobacco product I wont touch.

[icehog3]

Go ahead....touch it. You know you want to.

[G G]

Silver Creek too.

[G G]

Wish I had a can of Happy Days Raspberry, remember that?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by ggainey

Wish I had a can of Happy Days Raspberry, remember that?

I sure do, Greg. They had a couple other flavors, too. We used to gather pop bottles and ride them to the grocery store at the mall to cash them in so we could buy snuff. Snuff was 42 cents a can, and an 8 pack only brought 40 cents, so we'd go back through and steal them and turn them in again. How we never got caught is beyond me.
Then we'd go across the way to the driving range, fill grocery sacks with golf balls we'd gather, and take them to Sky Lodge hill and roll them all down the hill at once.
Didn't get to go to reform school for that stunt, either.

[kelmac07]

Originally Posted by shilala

You beat me, Mac. I didn't start till I was 8.
I used to hide my Union Workmen scrap under the bus stop. I just started cause all the older guys and ballplayers did it. I thought it was badass and when I tried scrap, I loved the honey molasses sweetness.
Didn't start chewing snuff till I was in 6th or 7th grade, I suppose. I wanted to chew Copey and couldn't handle it, so I tried Gold River, got stuck, and switched to Copey a short while later.
The old man chewed Skoal, so I switched to that one summer. It really screwed up my face and I couldn't chew for a few days, so I laid off it till I could go slow and get used to it. Couldn't stand to get beat, ya know?
I'm still amazed at how incredibbly addictive it is. My grandpa chewed till he dies, probably put in a good 80 years. My old man still dips, and I imagine he has a good 60 years in. With 35 years, I'm still the baby.
It's a totally gross habit. I love it.

Originally Posted by shilala

I sure do, Greg. They had a couple other flavors, too. We used to gather pop bottles and ride them to the grocery store at the mall to cash them in so we could buy snuff. Snuff was 42 cents a can, and an 8 pack only brought 40 cents, so we'd go back through and steal them and turn them in again. How we never got caught is beyond me.
Then we'd go across the way to the driving range, fill grocery sacks with golf balls we'd gather, and take them to Sky Lodge hill and roll them all down the hill at once.
Didn't get to go to reform school for that stunt, either.

Bringing back so many memories of growing up in Pa right there Scott. And in the winter time, we were "snowballing" cars. I remember collecting the pop bottles and cashing 'em in. Ma & Pop stores like that aren't around like they were when we were growing up...seemed like there was one on every corner. Penny candy, bottled pop, pinball machines. I loved me some Levi Garrett and then Lancaster came out...super sweet!! I can remember hiding my Gold River/Copenhagen in my sock under my jeans so mom wouldn't find it and at night it was under the stairs.

[BigAsh]

Originally Posted by kelmac07

Bringing back so many memories of growing up in Pa right there Scott. And in the winter time, we were "snowballing" cars. I remember collecting the pop bottles and cashing 'em in. Ma & Pop stores like that aren't around like they were when we were growing up...seemed like there was one on every corner. Penny candy, bottled pop, pinball machines. I loved me some Levi Garrett and then Lancaster came out...super sweet!! I can remember hiding my Gold River/Copenhagen in my sock under my jeans so mom wouldn't find it and at night it was under the stairs.

Damn glad the Army straightened you out....

[kelmac07]

Originally Posted by BigAsh

Damn glad the Army straightened you out....

My mother says the same thing.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by kelmac07

Bringing back so many memories of growing up in Pa right there Scott. And in the winter time, we were "snowballing" cars. I remember collecting the pop bottles and cashing 'em in. Ma & Pop stores like that aren't around like they were when we were growing up...seemed like there was one on every corner. Penny candy, bottled pop, pinball machines. I loved me some Levi Garrett and then Lancaster came out...super sweet!! I can remember hiding my Gold River/Copenhagen in my sock under my jeans so mom wouldn't find it and at night it was under the stairs.

I forgot about hiding my snuff in my sock at school.
I don't forget hauling a milk carton around for a spitter. Most of the teachers were cool with snuff and let us chew in class so we wouldn't spit on the carpet and rub it in. Some would make us swallow it when they caught us, and a few would send us on a three day vacation.
I always hated suspension cause the old man would say "if you can't stand to get smart, you better get used to work" and would make me dig a stump out of the yard, or some other such sh!t. If I got done early, I'd have to dig my freshly backfilled and graded hole out and fill it back in. I learned how to pace myself at a real early age, at least where the old man was concerned. I'm still not very good at it otherwise.

[MiamiE]

Skoal when out in the woods!