Suck a Toad

Toad Suck, Arkansas

There is a place called Toad Suck. It is in Arkansas. 

I’ve been to Arkansas. I like the people there and I never saw anyone sucking on toads. Maybe it is something they do in the privacy of their own homes. What do you think?

Well I looked it up, on that Google thingy. It says the name comes from olden days when boatmen from the Arkansas River who would stop in the tavern and drink. It says boatmen “suck on a bottle ’til they swell up like toads”.

So it was disappointing to find out that no one was sucking on actual toads. 

I heard once that people would lick toads or frogs to get high. So I did the Google thing and it made it sound like it was more likely that you would die from licking a toad that have “a trip”. Death would be a trip, but one most of us want to take… later… much later.

A respectable nearby to the town of Toad Suck: a town called Conway, has “Toad Suck Daze”, Not days… but daze. 

The licking or sucking of toads might put you in a daze. 

So why daze and not days?

Maybe they really are sucking on toads?