Cud Cud Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More accurately, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. The idiomatic expression "chewing one's cud" means "meditating" or "pondering"; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation. The alimentary canal of ruminants, such as cattle, goats, sheep, alpacas, and antelope, are unable to produce the enzymes required to
Chewing tobacco historian of the American South in the late 1860s reported on typical usage in the region where it was grown, paying close attention to class and gender: Chewing tobacco is still used, predominantly by young males in some parts of the American Southeast, but also in other areas and age groups. In September 2006 both the Republican and Democratic candidates for Senator from Virginia admitted to chewing tobacco and agreed that it sets a bad example for children. In the late 19th century, during the peak in popularity of chewing tobacco in the western United States, a device known as