# "I'd hit that raw": how long has that been around? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 28, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799 "2015-11-28T03:43:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/1 "2015-11-28T03:43:21Z")
It was explained by a friendly assistant at a vape shop–and they ought to know, I guess–that it was the name of an e-juice that she refused to carry, because it was gross for her to have to say it to customers. Did I miss it’s debut as an expression? For those of you who don’t know what it means, I’ll post it in a few after some guesses–I was close but wrong after three tries… ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/2 "2015-11-28T03:45:28Z")
I’m 37, and I’ve probably heard that about as long as I’ve been old enough to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/3 "2015-11-28T04:01:11Z")
☹ That’s what I was afraid of. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/4 "2015-11-28T04:03:42Z")
This was a question on Yahoo Answers five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/5 "2015-11-28T04:11:21Z")
Similar vintage as “raw doggin’ it,” no? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/6 "2015-11-28T04:20:37Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Similar vintage as “raw doggin’ it,” no? Never heard that one either, as if anyone is surprised… ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/7 "2015-11-28T16:05:05Z")
57…never heard it before and only have some idea what it means. Used to hear/say “eat me raw” as a kid… not sure what that was supposed to mean either. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/8 "2015-11-28T16:09:45Z")
Yeah, baby I like it raw!! Ol Dirty Bastard used it 20 years ago — so it’s not new. … [- YouTube](http://youtu.be/4ITLNzPoEqs) ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/9 "2015-11-28T17:26:50Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > 57…never heard it before and only have some idea what it means. > > Used to hear/say “eat me raw” as a kid… not sure what that was supposed to mean either. I’m 56. We’re in the same boat. Let’s give it a few more tries before the reveal… ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/10 "2015-11-28T17:36:51Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > I’m 56. We’re in the same boat. Let’s give it a few more tries before the reveal… “I’d hit that” = “I would probably enjoy knowing this young person biblically” “raw” = “without any prophylaxis involved” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/11 "2015-11-28T18:06:25Z")
I understand what’s meant, but I’ve never heard the phrase in the OP before, just the related term provided by marshmallow until now. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/12 "2015-11-28T19:00:43Z")
Yes. Perhaps because I finished my often/casual sex before AIDS, and more often than not birth control was taken care of by the girl, I never heard it? “Eat it raw”-- which I also remember now that you mention it, can’t be the same derivation, swrit ETA: a brutal sharpening of “I’d hit that raw” – but I presume a creative line uttered by one person for real or by the screenwriter, was “I’d eat her shit just find out where it came from.” ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/13 "2015-11-28T19:07:40Z")
Addendum: from the superb television series Generation Kill, set during the Iraq War. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-hit-that-raw-how-long-has-that-been-around/738799/14 "2015-11-30T16:59:29Z")
So what did “eat me raw” mean way back when? From Urban Dictionary… \*Derived from a dirty nursury rhyme popular in the 1970’s: “Eat Me Raw, Balls’n all! Don’t stop there, Get a little hair!” \* Two likes and one dislike so…hmm. I never heard the rhyme…anyone?