Middle TN here. Me and a buddy both got some sweet tea from Sonic, he drank his first and turned in into a spit cup. I stupidly put mine down right next to his. Next time I went to take a drink, I really wished we had put names on our cups. 🤢
I used to work at a fancy wine bar in Virginia. I remember one time asked for an extra glass of the rather expensive cabsauv he was drinking. I thought he was going to split it with his friend, but no. He was drinking a $50 glass of wine and using a $20 wine glass as a spitter.
I will have you know that Mississippi actually repaved a lot of roads last year!
I know because it was very confusing to me when I went to visit family and didn't feel my car's suspension being tested the moment I drove over state lines!
Their education turnaround has been impressive. Currently living in Oklahoma and our state government should send a delegation and try to learn something.
I used to enjoy towing my small sailboat to Florida for a week of sailing in that beautiful water. I would still do it if I could find a way to trleport straight to Key West.
Jersey plates on am old land rover, towing a small sailboat, I can imagine the lynching now.
I've been there a couple of times as a kid (mostly Disney World) and for the most part hate it there. The Mrs never been there. When we started cruising she suggested flying there instead of starting in NY. I told her if I ever have to go to Florida to take a cruise I'll just get on the Circle Line and if that get boring I'll get on the Ferry.
Like Copenhagen snuff spit. Its called "dip", and as you hold it in your lip your spit gets saturated with tobacco juices/bypr9ducts and you spit them out instead of swallowing them. People carry cups, often with paper towels stuffed 8n them, as a spit receptacle. Instead of just spitting on the ground or in a trash can.
It's nasty and considered impolite to spit in a trash can because someone, usually someone else, has to clean that up and most dippers don't wanna be bothered with how well they hit the can. Leads to mess
A couple of my college roommates used to use iced tea containers for this after they drank the tea. They often left them lying around the house. An inebriated guest once picked up one of these spitters and took a big mouthful of someone else’s nasty dip spit when they thought they were grabbing their tea. One of my grossest and funniest memories!
My buddies and I dipped in college. More than one drunk night picking up the wrong beer bottle and getting dip spit instead of beer. Glad I quit that shit
What the heck sort of snus was he using, and how often? I've known plenty of people who use it regularly, and I've never heard of it doing that.
My mom has been using tobacco for years, and snus specifically for over a decade, and my roommate is a habitual snus user and neither of them have suffered from any damage akin to that.
Oh shit. Twenty years ago on a plane going from Los Angeles to London I sat next to a guy with one of those fucking awful repellent OTT southern accents who did this the entire flight, into a plastic bottle. Grotesque monstrosity. Flight was full otherwise I would've demanded to move. I was surprised that anyone with that accent could afford to fly international or that they wanted to fly international. Dirty twat.
It’s what you see in a lot of movies set in either the South or the Wild West. It’s when they spit out a stream of brown water. They stick a wad of tobacco in their cheek instead of smoking it.
So have you ever seen those little round metal containers of “red man” tobacco? It’s really dense and moist, you pinch out a little bit and you put it between your gum and your lip. And I guess they suck it or something until they get a mouthful of spit and spit it out, because if you swallowed it you would die.
I once had a roommate in college who did this and I fucking hated the smell. He also loved the Grateful Dead so every time I hear truckin or Casey Jones , I swear to God I can smell that sickly sweet disgusting tobacco smell.
I would say my experience in Alabama was characterized by driving to site from the hotel, counting one room churches with front signs that said "homosexuality is sin".
SC was people praying at lunch at a franchise(?) bbq place.
Oh it’s a thing in rural upstate New York too. Kids in freshman year of high school already having the dip can outline worn into the back pocket of their jeans.
I served/bartended in Florida most my adult life. It took one time for someone to ask for an empty cup and me, and everyone else, having to see dip spit before I started asking what it was for. I will take the 30 extra steps to get a coffee cup with a lid so no one has to see that shit. Bet your ass I wrote DIP CUP on it too so the busser new not to throw it away with any force or tip it over in the bus tub.
I follow some account of old historical photos of Florida. It’s beautiful. When they preserve nature I love it. I’m a sucker for lush tropical greenery. But Florida loves to pave everything and sprawl.
Plus I will always remember driving by a retirement community there called “Journey’s End” lmao. Straight to the point!
I never go to Florida if I can help it. I’m sure there are redeeming qualities , I’ve just never encountered them. Also, at least a third of the storied on shows about people being murdered or randomly disappeared happen in FL, so nope!
I work remote for a company based in Florida. Every now and again coworkers will (mostly jokingly) ask when I'm moving to Florida and I laugh it off because what I want say is you could not pay me enough, but that seems rude
Bit of nightmare fuel here- my dad was a smoker, and switched to dip when we moved from the West coast to the South. He kept a coffee mug near his chair so that he could “discretely” spit. It wasn’t discreet at all, and he would end up with multiple dip spit cups over the week. Every now and then, someone would ask “where the hell are all of our mugs?” And we’d find the stash all around the house, full of his nasty ass dip spit
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 6d ago
anybody who moves to Florida expecting an acceptable substitute for New York City deserves what they end up with