DCHP-3

carrot tobacco

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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tobacco packaged in carrot-shaped bundles wrapped in cloth and twine, weighing about three pounds and about eighteen inches long, prominent among trade goods of the fur companies.

See: carrot

Quotations

1766
Manufactured and to be sold by Mathew Gemmil, Tobacconist . . . Roll Tobacco in all its different Kinds . . . likewise Carot Tobacco. . . .
1878
Tea is sold at 40c to 50c; sugar 20c; carrot tobacco $2.25 per roll.
1947
"Carrot tobacco" was not tobacco made from carrots, but tobacco put up in the shape of carrots.