You Shred it, Wheat!

In the slang of the 1940s, if you wanted to say, I agree completely with you, or what you said is definitely true, you could say, you shred it, wheat. You shred it, wheat.

Who said that?

Like, you know, somebody asks you to go to the movies with them and you say, you shred it, wheat.

You shred it, wheat?

Yeah.

Yeah, like you said it.

Are you sure that wasn’t just a cereal maker just trying to force a thing on people?

Well, it’s interesting.

It shows up in collections of slang from the 1940s.

And then a little bit later in newspapers, I saw it used to mean you figure it out.

You know, like, what am I supposed to do with that problem?

You shred it, wheat.

Okay, gotcha.

All right, we’ll shred your wheat and your barley and your corn.

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