fuck you yankees

3/18/2013 5:58:44 PM

you tell em you Cold Ass Honky

3/18/2013 6:03:49 PM

a friend of mine said while he was in Louisiana he ask where could he find some "nabs" they were all like

I will just take my square meal

3/18/2013 6:08:41 PM

National Association of Black Scuba Divers

3/18/2013 8:15:58 PM

going for this fuck it

3/18/2013 8:35:56 PM

i've called them nabs for a very long time.

i had never heard of the "bacca field lunch" from the other thread, but i've definitely made a meal of it working out in the heat a time or two growing up. but nabs go way better with pepsi than mountain dew.

3/18/2013 8:37:26 PM

man I know the pepsi thing, still coke is the shit... give me my glass bottle

3/18/2013 8:49:06 PM

i'm generally a much bigger fan of coke

but weeze talking nabs atm, gimme a pepsi

3/18/2013 8:50:53 PM

3/18/2013 8:54:38 PM

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"BACCA FIELD LUNCH"

3/18/2013 9:56:24 PM

Quote :

"I've heard that term my whole life."

3/18/2013 10:06:16 PM

3/18/2013 10:08:33 PM

Interesting thing about nabs... Most of them are made by Lance. Haven't seen Nabisco crackers of the "nabs" variety in stores in a long time.

3/18/2013 10:14:06 PM

did i hear

nabs?

3/19/2013 8:37:56 PM

so is bacca field lunch just a slang term or do some of you people actually work in bacca fields.

or rather, did at some point.

3/19/2013 8:41:32 PM

^never heard the term before this thread. i grew up living/working on a farm, not a tobacco farm though. nabs and a coke was our snack of choice at the 10:00am and 3:00pm breaks.

3/19/2013 11:15:25 PM

ha i worked in tobacco when i was younger.

_used_ to be a rite of passage of sorts where i was from.

3/19/2013 11:17:09 PM

Not this shit again.

3/19/2013 11:23:21 PM

^^^^Yea, I worked in tobacco when I was younger, summers from when I was 13 to 17 years old. I must say though, I have never heard of a 'bacca field lunch'. We just called it break time.

3/20/2013 8:49:12 AM

Granddad called it 'bacca field lunch' on various occasions. We actually did work tobacco, so I feel its an accurate term.

And although I dont like Pepsi and prefer Coke, Pepsi is the preferred drink of a 'bacca field lunch'.

3/20/2013 8:58:50 AM

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"so is bacca field lunch just a slang term or do some of you people actually work in bacca fields. or rather, did at some point. "

yes, grandparents had tobacco on their farm when i was a kid; my earliest farm memory was sitting on the tractor ~4yrs old, eating nabs and drinking a mt-dew while my family primed.

Later I worked on my best friends farm from 12-14yrs old; they had ~100acres.

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"_used_ to be a rite of passage of sorts where i was from. "

pretty much sums it up. THere's some skill involved with 'topping' & 'priming' tobacco manually.

3/20/2013 9:29:31 AM

An interesting fact from my tobacco experience, we put tobacco in the old stick barns. The farmer I helped was probably the last farmer to use stick barns in my area. The harvester was double-decker with a ferris wheel up to the loopers. Once we had a 'barn full', we would go and hang in the stick barns. This was the same method my grandparents used in their day, and it was neat to be able to talk with them about it. Eventually, I ended up helping other farmers who had bulk barns and box barns.

3/20/2013 9:56:10 AM

my parents used to threaten me with summers of tobacco field work if i fucked up
thank god i never did anything bad enough to warrant that kind of punishment

i feel lucky growing up in a rural area to never have had to farm. that shit looks bru-tal.

3/20/2013 9:58:57 AM

Wait are you guys serious?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

3/20/2013 10:00:11 AM

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"Wait are you guys serious? "

don't troll, bro. 100% srs.

3/20/2013 11:35:45 AM

how old are you guys?

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

3/20/2013 11:39:26 AM

doesnt matter how old you are

the main factor is where you grew up

3/20/2013 12:10:53 PM

^truth.

Though, now, I don't know if many farmers in my area are still using summer help. Most of all the tobacco now is pulled with automatic harvesters. Its a shame too. I think that working in tobacco at an early age was a good thing. I worked with alot of my friends, and we would make the time go by fairly quick. I learned that it takes a lot of work to make a little money.

I'm 32 now, btw.

3/20/2013 12:37:33 PM

^truthx2

I'm 28.

3/20/2013 1:23:07 PM

I'm not but 25 so I worked in our final years of tobacco. We had automated primers, but labor was cheaper than diesel so we never used them.

One of my biggest detail customers just got out of tobacco. Said it took him around $500-600k in expenses just to *maybe* make $100k. Wasent with it.

3/20/2013 1:49:43 PM

maybe you assholes can start picking grapes then

3/20/2013 3:48:35 PM

^see Yadkin county.

My friend's farm turned game preserve

3/20/2013 5:14:35 PM

grape field lunch

doesnt have the same ring

3/21/2013 4:57:55 PM