Chewing tobacco/dip: Dud or the most repulsive thing ever?

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Back in college I had a roommate who was on the football team. He and all the other athletes who lived on my floor would "dip" every day and sit in the lounge at the end of the hall with paper cups or empty soda cans or bottles and spit into them. He asked me if I wanted to try it sometime, saying that since I smoked it would be the same thing. I declined and he said "come on, champ, ten bucks, whaddya say?" I was in college, I was broke, I figured "what the hell".

About five minutes in I had to take it out, I felt like I was dying, all my color had gone from my face, it was the most disgusting thing I've ever tried. He gave me the ten bucks anyway. He was a decent fella.

So anyway, what the fuck would anyone do that for? Christ at least smoking has this aura of cinematic cool about it.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I dare not say anything lest my boss eventually read it. Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud is picking up someone else's spit cup, handily disguised as a soda bottle and nearly drinking from it.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck I almost did that once

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

dip is nothing like smoking. its like 100times more intense. fucking disgusting obviously, but it will FUCK. YOU. UP. especially if youve been drinking.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a man in my office who chews. He keeps an Ale81 bottle (a grimey KY soft drink akin to Mountain Dew, sorta) from 1989 which he carries around with him and uses as a spitoon. It's a transparent green bottle, and seeing as how he doesn't dump it out regularly, he pretty much walks around all day with this bottle full of stinky disgusting black fucking regurgitated demon skeet right under his lower lip. Most. Professional. Dude. Ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Played softball against a team of really tough chicks. The giant catcher chewed tobacco. I was scared out of my cleats to go up to bat. I think I was 14.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried it in high school after failing to be able to smoke.
I puked on my feet.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

...a bit repulsive talking to someone who has a bunch of brown shit in his mouth. I'd rather dip myself than watch someone else drool into a cup.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend's boyfriend (who is not liked by many people) took up chew to curb his smoking...and claims he quit smoking. can he do that?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone should tell him that chew/dip is probably infinitely worse for you than smoking.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I began chewing in sixth grade. First Happy Days (chew for kids), then graduating to Skoal (minty!) and Copenhagen. I never went for bandits. A redneck in my high school cut a pea-sized tumor out of his gum with a jack knife one day... in CLASS! It was awesome.

Alas, the last I chewed was some WB Cut about five years ago.

Now I'll take a blast of snuff now and then, but no "chaw."

― andy, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

One time, in my high school political science class, this other Nick that everybody and their mother called "Moose" (big round American-football player mofo) boldly dipped a wee bit while the teacher left the classroom for awhile. She came back rather abruptly and noticed he had something in his mouth. When she figured out what it was, she gave him two choices: go to the principles office and get written up, or SWALLOW IT. The dude fucking CHOKED THAT SHIT DOWN, RIGHT THERE, face redder than a fire engine.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Who are you talking about, K?

David Foster Wallace to thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

In the new Blender Gretchen Wilson admits that its the most repulsive thing she does.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Puking up tabacco could be a mighty deterrent.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

wait why would you just start drinking from some random soda bottle?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ale81 bottle (a grimey KY soft drink akin to Mountain Dew, sorta)

WTF NICK ALE8 IS GINGER ALE??!!!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Because we were in a car, and I had put mine in the cup holder, next to his.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

j-paul. heather's boyfriend.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ginger ale huh? D'OH!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

that's what you get for befriending a dipper.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

FWIW that kid that ate his dip ended up leaving a distinct trail of little black puke driplets all the way to the nearest boys bathroom.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I work with a few people who do this. "Where's a cup? Seen a cup?" is an often heard question 'round here.

The worst part is when I sit down at my desk, and I can smell that curious dirty scent of mint pervading my office. Then I look down into my wastebasket and see that an otter has apparently taken a dump down there.

It's disgusting. I know a guy who switched from smoking to chewing because he said that he'd rather make do with a rubber jaw than losing a lung. It's hard to argue with some of these people when their minds are already made up.

A redneck in my high school cut a pea-sized tumor out of his gum with a jack knife one day... in CLASS!

I hope that someone from the yearbook staff was nearby.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This just made me spit water at my computer monitor.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to post this image, but decided it's only for the morbidly curious:
http://www.wellness.gatech.edu/information/6_tobacco_resource_center/1_tobacco_101.php

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Chewspit in the drinking fountain: worst thing ever!, or how we used to make fun of other high schools.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

My sister drank out of a soda can that someone had ashed into - and I thought that was pretty fucking gross. I remember AT BAND CAMP (seriously) this one kid was feeling a bit off in his stomach, and a kid was trying to gross him out and he said something about drinking from a spitoon and the sickly stomach kid puked right there at the thought of it.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Is chewing an exclusively male habit?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Played softball against a team of really tough chicks. The giant catcher chewed tobacco. I was scared out of my cleats to go up to bat. I think I was 14.
-- Je4nne ƒury (jeanneƒur...), August 18th, 2004 3:44 PM. (Jeanne Fury)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Although I will admit I personally have never once seen a girl chaw.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

chewing is decidedly not an exclusively male habit

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My football player roommate's girlfriend dipped as well.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Some brands of chewing tobacco, such as Copenhagen, have slivers of glass, which make small cuts in the gums, allowing nicotine to enter the bloodstream more quickly.

And Health and Safety don't have a problem with this?!?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Skoal is nice once in awhile...when I indulge it really does relax me, almost to the point of passing out. But doing it while watching sports, or playing slow sports, is great.

One brand to stay away from is CANNONBALL. Like nothing you've ever tasted in your life.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jgshow.com/pictures/GE/bullofthewoods.jpg

Another chew to avoid - plug. It's as offensive as it looks.

― andy, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://students.washington.edu/eomoe/ultimate/baseball/chew.jpg

"Darkie" toothpaste may be gone, but Red Man is going strong! Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima surviving too, I believe.

― andy, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I am, I think, one of the few males of my generation born and bred in Blount County, Tennessee, who managed to escape adolescence without ever having chewed/dipped, though I had tons of friends who did (almost everyone else, in fact). I still haven't, and don't feel I've missed anything.

Once a dipping buddy of mine was visiting and was spitting into a paper cup, which he then left behind a bunch of books on a shelf, unbeknownst to me. Disposing of 16oz paper cup full of tobacco-blackened ptoo after it's been sitting for about two months was something that some Superfund expert should have been handling, not me. Nasty.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to love a good redman chew when i was a kid. a shitty day today at the office and id give anythign to be that 11year old kid with a pouch of redman and a two dollar rod and reel

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahhhh... kids and tobacco... brings me back to a better time....

― andy, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

dip is the most disgusting shit ever. my brother does this crap.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

This is so fucking gross I'm in a public computer lab and this dude is sitting next to me doing this shit. Spitting into a paper cup. What a fucker. I should throw it on him. STOMACH TURNING ARGHHH.

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

CHERRY FLAVOR

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You should just start browsing through pictures of people's mouths that have gotten all fucked up from chewing tobacco, tilting the screen just barely enough that he can get a good look at all those diseased rotting mouths.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sneeze on him, making sure to spray.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

at least he didn't take a metal spitoon to the computer lab!

although that might be kind of awesome

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the smell of that cherry flsvored dip is the worse, it's like instant nausea.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ts cherry flavored tobacco dip vs. matchbox twenty

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

my boyfriend used to chew in high school back when he played lacross in long island, drove a jeep, was a long-haired hippy, and went to phish and dmb shows--although he's a much different person now, for some horrendous reason he sometimes seems proud of his adolescence. he recently went to some bbq in the long island suburbs attended by other new york city residents who grew up in "strong island" and ended up "dipping". i almost vomitted when i saw the photos. i called him a suburban meathead and he called me a snob--love is grand.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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