... Strikes) need not ask. http://benny.crispy.com/audio/season_19/1948-02-29_645.mp3 The radio shows sponsored by Lucky Strike (Jack Benny, Your Hit Parade) usually began with a tobacoo auctioneer doing his spiel, which is unintelligible till he gets to "Sold to American" (i.e. the American Tobacco Company). Many phrases from Lucky Strike ads found their way into pop...

...Lucky Strikes) need not ask. http://benny.crispy.com/audio/season_19/1948-02-29_645.mp3 The radio shows sponsored by Lucky Strike (Jack Benny, Your Hit Parade) usually began with a tobacoo auctioneer doing his spiel, which is unintelligible till he gets to "Sold to American" (i.e. the American Tobacco Company). Many phrases from Lucky Strike ads found their way into pop culture ...

..., which means you stick a flake in the palm of your hand and rub it with the heel of your other thumb to loosen it up. "Ready rubbed" basically means exactly what it says, lol. "Navy cut" tobacoo means that instead of being compressed into blocks, the leaves would be (or rather used to be) tightly wound with tarry twine (I think it was tarry, wasn't everything in the Navy in those days?);...