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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Now I'm reading the March 17 article about snus, which, apparently has become something of a big deal among some populations here in the U.S. since it was imported from Sweden.
I haven't finished the article yet, so I don't know what more the author may have to say, but from what I've read so far, it pretty much sounds to me like up-scale chewing tobacco (you just don't chew it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_tobacco
Jeff Wrangler:
"In the end, it always came back to cow shit."
:laugh:
That sentence is classic Jill Lepore.
Today I finished her article in the March 24 issue about Ruth Stout. When I read that sentence I laughed so much I nearly choked.
I almost did so again, just now. ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 02, 2025, 03:46:47 pm ---I haven't finished the article yet, so I don't know what more the author may have to say, but from what I've read so far, it pretty much sounds to me like up-scale chewing tobacco (you just don't chew it)
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My editor at my first newspaper job chewed something that led him to periodically spit in a can. A coworker called it snus. I thought maybe that was a slang word for chewing tobacco, and sounds like I wasn't far off.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 05, 2025, 03:46:17 pm ---My editor at my first newspaper job chewed something that led him to periodically spit in a can. A coworker called it snus. I thought maybe that was a slang word for chewing tobacco, and sounds like I wasn't far off.
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The Zyn brand is mentioned in Andrew Marantz's March 24 article about young men turning to Trump.
Jeff Wrangler:
On page 17 of the March 24 issue there is a cartoon panel by Emily Flake titled "Democratic Resistance Strategies."
One of the "strategies" is:
"Dropping sick burns in the private slack."
I have no idea what that means. ???
(In the comic all the words are in capital letters.)
I wonder if Emily Flake is the cartoonists real name. If it is, I bet she got teased a lot in school.
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