Who here dips? I dip from time to time now that smoking is considered unacceptable. With many of us having rural and semi-rural backgrounds, some forumers have probably been to dip town.

hahaha is this serious?  I tired dip once and it's the sickest thing I've ever done.  Plus, it's terrible for your mouth, and I always think it makes people look pretty hickish.

Does anyone know if they still make Fun Dip?

 

As for grown-up dip, I haven't touched the stuff for a few years.  I got a promo can of Skoal at a bar one night in I think 2003 and it reminded me of why I stay away from the stuff. 

 

I do remember though when we all started dipping in high school, one of my friends was filling up a Maxwell House coffee can with spit in his room.  He was keeping it on the shelf in his closet until it spilled a few hours before his parents were coming back home.  He had to run out to the grocery store to get one of those vacuum cleaners you rent. 

nasty.

Someone threw a lip in at my best friend's mom's funeral. Westsiders for ya hehehe

Does anyone know if they still make Fun Dip?

 

As for grown-up dip, I haven't touched the stuff for a few years.  I got a promo can of Skoal at a bar one night in I think 2003 and it reminded me of why I stay away from the stuff. 

 

I do remember though when we all started dipping in high school, one of my friends was filling up a Maxwell House coffee can with spit in his room.  He was keeping it on the shelf in his closet until it spilled a few hours before his parents were coming back home.  He had to run out to the grocery store to get one of those vacuum cleaners you rent. 

 

Wow!  I have never seen promo dip at bars, ciggerettes yes, but not dip.  I actually don't know anyone who does it at this time. 

Growing up in Appalachia, I think dipping is right up there with blowing your nose in public using your thumb to plug one nostril and exhaling through the clogged one. Yeehaw. Hoo-doggy. :roll:

I'd actually prefer someone smocking right in my face than dipping on the other side of the room.

I thought that "dipping" caused (mouth, gum, throat cancer?)  Isn't that stuff illegal?

>never seen promo dip at bars

 

I only saw it that one time.  They were passing out some kind of mint flavor, it took me a few weeks to get halfway through it and then I just tossed it or maybe gave it to my brother.

 

>(mouth, gum, throat cancer?)

 

yes, yes, and yes.

I thought that "dipping" caused (mouth, gum, throat cancer?)  Isn't that stuff illegal?

 

You remind me of the altercation I had with a sorority girl a few weeks ago. I came back from a party drunk and walked up Clifton Ave, asked one of the Tri-Delt girls if they had a light, she screamed "Smoking causes lung cancer!!!" I said yeah and being in Tri-Delt causes syphilis.

 

One of my favorite movies:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iBELC_vxqhI

From time to time, I do focus groups at Focus Groups of Cleveland (quick way to make $100, and they're usually pretty interesting).  I'll sign up for anything, even if I'm not their target market and I have to lie.  I don't smoke, but I do cigarette ones all the time.  One time about 3 years ago, my brother-in-law, Kevin,  and I signed up for one on dipping.  It was a two parter that payed $250...jackpot! 

 

Now, I grew up on a farm in Medina, but I've never dipped before because its so nasty.  So the first night was just answering a bunch of multiple choice questions...took about 30 min and paid $75.  Part two included taking two samples of flavorer Skoal home, trying it out and taking notes on it and then coming back a week later to discuss it with the marketers.  No problem we said...we'll just fake it.  The flavors apple (nasty), orange and lemon (nastier) and coffee (nastiest).  I actually tried it at home, just so it wasn't a total fake.  It was as nasty as I imagined it would be...definite nicotine buzz, though.  Kevin refused to try it.

 

Now I've been to many focus groups, and I've never gotten to sample anything.  Did a tequila one...no tequila.  I've done many beer ones...always advertising.  I've done many cigarette ones...never had to smoke (which would be fine).  So we go in to discuss our "notes" and the first thing they do is slide everyone a can of the coffee skoal and ask everyone to throw in a dip and write down our impressions after 1 min, 5 min and 10 min.  So there we are, in a room full of dippers, with tobacco execs watching from behind a two way mirror and Kevin and I have to throw in the grossest dip of all time and keep it in for 10 min.  We had to look like the biggest idiots trying to put the first and second dips in our lives in.Kevin said he almost puked as soon as he put it in.  I never got sick, but it was gross.    Hardest $250 I've ever made. 

^ haw.

 

How about women dipping? Anybody think that's hot?

My mouth started watering excessively just reading that account.

 

Reminds me of when I took event photos, crews from Camel and other cigarette manufacturers would come around to the bars with their promo girls usually in some outrageous get-up.  They'd typically drive around in a stretched limo or party bus driven by some pimp-looking character.  Camel was definitely the funniest, with tall Scandinavian girls (yes, they had accents) in flamboyant futuristic white dresses w/moon boots, fuzzy shoulder pom-poms, and glittery make-up.  I was never allowed to photograph them though, and they didn't give an explanation until the 3rd or 4th time, and it was because of the cigarette advertising laws.  Basically if they showed up in a bar or event's advertising, they'd be breaking the law.  Too bad because they were totally hilarious and the pimp characters at times seemed legitimately dangerous.  They caught me the one or two times I snuck a photo and watched me delete it off my camera.  I bet they were trained to see that someone was actually deleting a photo and not just making the trash can icon appear, the usual way to foil someone. 

I'm rarely dip. Most often its hiking or canoing when carrying a lighter, smokes and keeping them dry aren't an option.

 

And David, giggle to your story.

^ haw.

 

How about women dipping? Anybody think that's hot?

 

In chocolate, yes. Tobacco, not so much.

 

I dipped a little in college. Helped me through many an all nighter. First time I ever tried it, I was drinking a beer as well, and my good good friends neglected to instruct me on the proper methodology to ensure you don't swallow your spit while you drink. Needless to say I turned many shades of white, green and I think purple that night.

 

I don't do it anymore, though. My doctor scared me straight with stories of partial face removals resulting from cancer of the mouth/throat/ etc.

 

Dip is certainly more of a southern thing,

 

For fathers day I went home and a bunch of people were over. I was drinking and had a tin of the new Camel Snus (if you don't know what it is, it's a thin pouch you put in your upper lip that's suppose to be cleaner and spitless but I end up spitting anyway). Then my mom's friend, this black woman started talking to me about it, asked me what brand it was, etc and mentioned she used to chew Redman tobacco which is way more hardcore. I said "what!? I've never known women to do that (and I've definitely never heard of black women doing it) but she's from Alabama, she said it's a southern thing and its common.

My grandfather chewed the rope stuff.

 

http://www.cwdlp.com/twist.htm

 

My mom tells "great" stories of being rewarded with a nickel for emptying the cuspidor.

 

I throw in a dip of Hawken for softball games.

^ Damn man ... that's f*$king sick! lol

Hard core + geek = having a dip in while playing your clarinet at band camp.

I believe you'd get your ass kicked all the way the Medina County if anyone caught you dipping when I was growing up. Parma had lots and lots of smokers (including myself) back in the free wheeling 80's and early 90's, but dipping was a one way ticket to being called Jethro and asked if you sleep with your sister/cousin/niece, etc.

Wait... we're not talking about guacamole are we?

 

Being from Oregon, where most places did away with or smoking ages ago, nothing makes me turn green faster than seeing some overweight, handlebar mustached, graying man carrying around a Styrofoam cup to catch his chaw. Double points when picking up trash and finding said cup nestled in a corner, under a table, etc.

Wait... we're not talking about guacamole are we?

 

Being from Oregon, where most places did away with or smoking ages ago, nothing makes me turn green faster than seeing some overweight, handlebar mustached, graying man carrying around a Styrofoam cup to catch his chaw. Double points when picking up trash and finding said cup nestled in a corner, under a table, etc.

 

Well I suppose you could have put a spittoon out for them.

Who here dips? I dip from time to time now that smoking is considered unacceptable. With many of us having rural and semi-rural backgrounds, some forumers have probably been to dip town.

 

Camaro Avatar = Check

Dips = Check

Listens to Metal = Check

Used to or still has long hair = Check

 

Yep there is no doubt that you live on the West Side of Cincinnati. ;)

 

 

Oooooh, if you just checked my profile, you'd see that I'm a Cincy East Sider. Well, actually, I grew up in Groveport and Ashville.

Ugh.

 

When I worked in West Virginia, 90% of the employees dipped. Some spit into a bottle, others chose the trash can. Ahhh yes! The sweet aroma of apple flavoured dip wafting out of the trash can, as I relax in my office that I shared with the "Prof." Black shoes, no socks, black, tight jeans with a ragged undershirt-I-wore-to-bed and unkept hair and appearance. At least he didn't dip.

So I tried some of that Camel snus stuff mentioned above. Orange flavor. I followed the instructions on the back of the tin and put it in my upper lip; man, I felt like a nincompoop reading instructions to use tobacco. The manual also said that I wouldn't have to spit, which was true, but it just felt right to spit anyway. It didn't hit near as hard as Grizzly, but I did get an OK buzz from the stuff. My spit was orange. Over time, I don't think my mouth would get tore up near as bad with snus as opposed to dip. Eh, back to the Grizz.

I think I just got tongue cancer reading this thread.  :|

So I tried some of that Camel snus stuff mentioned above. Orange flavor. I followed the instructions on the back of the tin and put it in my upper lip; man, I felt like a nincompoop reading instructions to use tobacco. The manual also said that I wouldn't have to spit, which was true, but it just felt right to spit anyway. It didn't hit near as hard as Grizzly, but I did get an OK buzz from the stuff. My spit was orange. Over time, I don't think my mouth would get tore up near as bad with snus as opposed to dip. Eh, back to the Grizz.

 

Yeah I couldn't believe how much that camel snus crap costs. It's like 5 or 6 bucks.

^ haw.

 

How about women dipping? Anybody think that's hot?

 

Yes. About as hot as missing teeth and fried 80s permed hair.