I too was corrected by a client and tobacco farmer, rather sternly, I might add. It seems that most folks around these parts, Southside Virginia and North Carolina insist it's "pulling' tobacco...
(I think I read this as well in my "Odd Facts Known By Few" edition of Learn-a-Month magazine...only 25 cents per issue) This reference and usage was recently on the "Moonshiners" TV show on the Discovery Channel when Tim Smith hides his 'shine in a tobacco field and then worries that it will be discovered since 'they'll be pulling tobacco soon'... Ben in Roanoke VA **************************************************** Message: 5 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:19:37 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: A Wife for Jeff episode Message-ID: <of1d56b526.e60acede-on85257af6.006e2e39-85257af6.006fa...@mmi.mig.corp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" As I watched Alan Hale in the episode about a wife for Jeff Pruitt, I noticed he mentions that he has a farm and he "picked" tobacco on that farm. As a younger man I worked in Kentucky and was referred to farmers "picking" tobacco. I was quickly corrected by a long time Kentucky resident that a farmer "cuts tobacco, they do not pick it". I was surprised the writer of that episode was not corrected on this term. I believe the product is harvested the same way in that it is cut and not picked. Just a comment Little Buddy. Dan Sheeran, CPIA, CRIS Motorists Insurance Group Senior District Sales Manager PO Box 398 Kings Mills Ohio 45034 513-310-5497 fax 866-770-0324 [email protected] _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
