You might be a redneck

[ProudMarineDad]

I have a story that would confirm that I am a redneck if there ever was one. Once when my wife and I had taken my mom to the local mall when my mom introduced me to a woman who used to be her hairdreser. The lady had a dip of old fashioned snuff in. She had to put her spit cup down in Sears to shake my hand.

You might be a redneck if your mom's hair dresser dips snuff. Will be hard for anyone to top that.

[sagedil]

Here in the South, that is very common. I remember my ex-wife's 94 year old grandma used to dip snuff. Here in the south, the way was to take a stick, whittle it down, then wet the stick, dip it in the snuff and suck on the end of the stick.

Most younger women like my ex mother-in-law just smoked, but the old generation just used snuff.

[tom502]

I never understood the concept of using a wet stick for dry snuff. I mean, once you put it in your mouth, the snuff would just come off. You could just as well wet your finger and stick it in the snuff and stick it in your mouth. Now I can see someone dipping it in their lower lip. I tried that a few times.

[sagedil]

Umm, who said Southerners were smart??

Just the way things developed here. From what I understand, that practice started about 150 years ago here.

[sundog]

My mother dips Bruton. She just pulls out her lower lip and dumps a bunch in there right out of the can. No telling how much she's used over the decades.

And never spits.

Notice I tactfully ignored the remark about Southerners?

[sagedil]

The proper term if she doesn't spit is she is "gutting" it

[sundog]

Yeah, and that stuff would have me in the hospital after swallowing just a little bit. I guess you get used to it after a while.

[ProudMarineDad]

My dad told me he started chewing tobacco when he was 5. He was aggravating some men and they gave him some brand of chew called Mickey Twist thinking it would make him sick so he would leave them alone. Wrong. He never got sick off of any kind. He did them all from chewing tobacco to the powdered snuff.

He used Skoal for years until one of my cousins who was a coach started giving him cases of Kodiak that a tobacco salesman would supply to the coaching staff but with strict instructions not to give any to the high school kids :lol: .

For a while after my dad died in 1987, my son would see a Kodiak can and say "Papa spit". My dad actually made him a redneck rattle for him when he was a baby. He cleaned a Kodiak can out, put pennies in it, and taped it up. Presto, a redneck rattle.

Told you guys I was a redneck.

[Snusdog]

I never understood the concept of using a wet stick for dry snuff. I mean, once you put it in your mouth, the snuff would just come off. You could just as well wet your finger and stick it in the snuff and stick it in your mouth. Now I can see someone dipping it in their lower lip. I tried that a few times.

Umm, who said Southerners were smart??

Ok you two yankee rocket scientists tell me, what happens to your finger if you keep licking it and putting it in a can of powdered tobacco.

Clue: your finger starts to look like you had a toilet paper blow out while wiping your butt.

That said, we southern do have a weakness for trailers and Elvis sightings. ops:

[Snusdog]

O yea, and that wrestling on TV every Saturday morning is real!!! We do know that!!!

[Skimo]

redneck and country are pretty similar right?

I grew up having horse crap fights, moose nugget fights and cow pie fights, ran around with guns and slingshots, had BB gun wars (not the brightest, I had a BB embed itself in my lower back once)

that was while we were kids, small towns sure are fun for kids and teenagers.... everybody knew the adults who would buy beer cigs and dip :lol:

[Roo]

Snusdog, you are awesome.

As long as this is about the South, I'll admit I've never been there. I don't count Florida, not for anything really. Just kidding. Kentucky is as far south as I've been in the US otherwise. Never been to a proper wafel house, never had grits, collard greens, or for god's sake a chicken-fried steak! That is pathetic but true. I went to 30 countries and lived in 5 or 6 before I finally went to New York last year. I need to travel the US more. I want to meet people who started chewing at 5, and hairdressers who dip on the job, at the mall! And I want to have a horse crap fight with Skimo. Imagine a mouthfull of Ettan los with horsecrap all over your face.

[tom502]

Imagine a mouthfull of horsecrap with Ettan los all over your face

[sgreger1]

Umm, who said Southerners were smart??

After spending the last few years living in variouse southern states, I would concur that (sorry guys), they may not be the brightest candle's on the planet.

From the place where old women dip and there is an apparent boycott on dentists, I am glad to be back in CA. (Too liberal here though)

[daruckis]

i moved to michigan from southern ohio when i was 6, for most of my life i hated all things southern. now i know ohio was in the union, but take a trip to gallipolis sometime. youll meet a lot of people with one black tooth. anyways after years of denying my roots, i can now say i love hank williams and david allan coe, i listen to 92.5 the outlaw, chicken fried steak is the best shit on the planet and grits kick ass. the shit i hate is the people around HERE with ****in redneck vinyl clings on their rear windshields and redneck hats and all that. its like larry the cable guy hit it big and now everyones a redneck. every days a big retard pride parade now.