chewing_grass

📅 Updated:2018-12-15

🕒 Created:2017-06-21

🆔 ID:16776

Description

Chewing grass is a popular trope in American media, especially within content focused on the wild west or within the southern United States.

It is the act of chewing on a wheat head while spitting out the seed shells, creating a glutinous mass that is essentially a natural chewing gum. Chewing grass gets lots of wheat chaff stuck to the teeth, so often many use the stalk as a toothpick to pick them out.

Often farmers or cowboys in media chew on this grass absentmindedly.