Sometimes derogatory, but not always, depending on who's saying it (ie; nigger) term for Athabascan Indians, used extensively throughout Alaska & Canada
A cheap brand of "all-purpose" smoking tobacco - one of the earliest packaged, branded pipe tobaccos in the U.S. - with the slogan "a cargo of contentment in the bowl of any pipe." A long-standing joke involving the product's name asserts that it is named "half and half" because it is comprised of "half horseshit and half bullshit" (in reality, the mixture is half "bright" and half "burley" tobaccos). Some old-timers speculate that the half and half jokemay have given rise to the novelty "horseshit cigarettes" sold in the U.S. in the 1920s-30s (not real horseshit), which featured the slogans "not a fart in a carload," and "try one, you mooching bastard."
Half and half is still sold at most retail outlets carrying tobacco products.
"Cargo of contentment," my piles - half and half is harsh and bitter.
A person who is revolting to look at, as they may have a busted grill for instance, basically this person looks like spew after a big night on the turps, or looks like a vulture has been given several hours to mutilate the face of this hideous beast.
"Geez mate! That bird you picked up looked like a half-eaten pasty"
"That girl last night had a decent body, but the face was a fucken half eaten pasty! I still fucker her though..."