Chore Boy
Chore Boy is a brand name for a coarse scouring pad made of steel wool or bronze wool. It is designed for cleaning very dirty surfaces, especially washing dishes. During the first half of the 20th century, the product was marketed under the name Chore Girl.In the American drug-using community, especially in more urban areas, Chore Boy has garnered a rather large market as a makeshift component in do-it-yourself crack cocaine pipes. Utilized in this context, a small wad of the copper wool is inserted into the end of a short cylindrical glass tube and serves to function as a screen and/or a matrix by which the melting freebase can be thoroughly dispersed across the large surface area of the bronze wool.
