Loose leaf and plug are forms of oral tobacco common in the United States. The first chewing tobacco in America was plug tobacco, or pressed leaf tobacco. Plug tobacco got its name from the way it was made. The tobacco was soaked in wild honey and then “plugged” into green hickory or maple logs to age. The plugging compressed the tobacco into a convenient form, while allowing the flavors to penetrate.
Loose leaf & plug are commonly marketed in loose or compressed plug form. The 1880 census listed chewing tobacco as scrap chewing tobacco. Scrap leaf, stems and considerable quantities of sugar, licorice, and other materials were employed to sweeten and flavor the product to suit the varied tastes of different classes of consumers. The word “scrap” describes the tobacco discarded in the production of cigars.
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