I immediately imagine the speaker in a broken rocking-chair on the decaying front porch of a termite-infested shack, beside his slumbering hound who hosts fewer fleas than his master, whose corn-cob pipe, jammed between toothless gums, still has the kernels attached because he cannot afford one of “them fancy-pants Misery Meerschaums that’s store-boughten.” But maybe it’s just me. What do you think?

I just think of tobacco

the word ‘tobacky’ conjures that image for me. baccy/backy make me think of sweet tobacco confectionery.

I use the phrase all the time, and I’m a long way from your stereotype. I don’t get any stereotypes as that’s a phrase that’s just always been around

Tobacco

To me in England its use is as common as the different regional dialects in this country are. Whether one is from “oop North” or “dan Saf” as we used to say in Essex, Baccy is a word for much loved tobacco. It is really interesting to me to hear about how the word conjures up images for other people

I always think of the word being said in a British accent. In Ireland we never used the word, the first time I heard it was from English friends. I have however heard older folk refer to Cannabis as ‘wacky baccy’, which I’ve always maintained to be a bloody awful term…

I live in the American South and tons of people use that expression. A rare few might fit your stereotype, but I think it just depends where you’re from. Where we are was populated by a lot of German and Irish immigrants and people here have long memories. We use certain German words in our small town as well. It’s tradition and people don’t like change, they’re proud of where they came from and that includes dialect. I use both baccy and tobacco and am far from your stereotype being college (university for those of you across the pond) educated and now running a good bit of the family business

I think of how my back hurts.

Ah Baccy of sunnybrook farms smoked in a Jeremiah Cobb.

@chefdaniel -Ahhahahhaaahhaha :)) I think I would lean more towards the British associations of the term…that is unless I am standing on a decaying front porch talking to an ol timer who is spitting in an empty Maxwell house coffee can that is beside his broken rocker…yep I’m from the south…and damn proud. In fact…why do all the emoticons have all their teeth…it’s obviously a Yankee plot There fixed that for ya’ll

It makes me think of loose, ‘roll-your-own’ cigatette tobacco, as in a baccy pouch. Not sure if this is a British thing or not.

@Snifs It sounds like you’ve been spying on me. Only thing is, it’s an empty Starbucks cup, not a Maxwell House can. We’re movin’ on up hereabouts.

@chefdaniel lol about starbucks. They put one i a town over from us and it’s ok I guess. Not a fan of the black coffee there, which is how I drink my coffee. Some of the other roasts aren’t bad black, but that Pikes roast is just…bad imo. Where I went to college there were only indie coffee shops and their coffee was pretty decent

If you actually see me in a Starbucks, shoot to kill.

hahahahahaha

Country bumpkins using front-end truncation. Unlike us of German descent who use back-end truncation: Tabak.

Starbucks!? Their coffee seems to always have that “burnt” flavor. I think they should rename the place to be called “Charbucks.”

Country bumpkins using front-end truncation. Unlike us of German descent who use back-end truncation: Tabak.

Yes, my point too, but containing a kind of down-market reverse snobbery. One sees it elsewhere on pipe-smoking fora, where every day someone inevitably strays from the corn-cob section into the briar area, only to declare that he only smokes ‘cobs’ - implying moral superiority for keeping a two-buck smouldering agricultural byproduct in his mouth. Otherwise, why the visit and the inevitable sermon? What would one think of, say, one’s potential brain surgeon referring to his ‘baccy’? I’d get a different specialist. ‘Tabak’ has a certain style (unrelated to Mammy Yokum).

I always think of loose tobacco when someone says baccy, pipe or hand rolling tobacco.

I think of a stereotype hillbilly in overalls on the porch in a rocking chair either spitting into a spitoon or smoking a corncob pipe. I don’t think I’ve ever used that term myself. I always call it tobacco. I see someone above’s reference to Mammy Yokum, and thats how I perceive it too. But I don’t smoke or spit tobacco anymore.