new term?

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>worm dirt
>
>I heard it for the first time this morning when I stopped for coffee and
>newspapers at Weigels, one of our 24 hour convenience store chains. I
>asked the nature of a product called Xtreme and was told that it was
>"chewing tobacco -- you know, worm dirt." Then the cashier showed me what
>it looks like: worm dirt. The cashier asked another employee if he called
>it that too. His answer was ambiguous.

Not familiar to me.

Used like "worm food" sometimes (= 'dead') and also apparently in a
culinary context, etc., on the Web.

For chewing tobacco -- or snuff -- from 1998:

http://arktimes.com/981016coverstory.html

-- Doug Wilson