AJL 10/02/06

While “sweet” it may be, it is certainly far from mild. As noted on the page of descriptions of American snuffs, such products are not actually intended to be taken nasally. It could be that this snuff is indeed mild when rubbed on one’s gums, but I doubt that I’ll find that out anytime soon, as I live in a locale where hickory twigs are very hard to find.

This is a very fine, very dry snuff, as are all of the American styles. If the package traveled through a humid area on its way to the store you buy it from, you may encounter what seem to be gravel-sized pebbles throughout— never fear, though, they crumble easily into the original coffin-dust consistency. It’s exactly the color of Uncle Elmer’s brown funeral suit.

Caution is recommended for the use of this snuff. We all have our little tricks for taking ultra-fine snuffs; you’ll definitely want some tricks with this one. It’s not as nose-burning as some of the High Toast styles, but it’s not any kind of wimpy, either. You will notice quite a hit of nicotine from this product. In fact, a snort of this snuff has much the same physiological effect as smoking an unfiltered Lucky whilst chewing a mouthful of Mail Pouch. Well, almost.*

The flavor is not without subtleties, despite the knock-you-down effects. The sweetness is immediately noticed, though the flavor thereof is hard to define— somewhat molasses-y, yet not overly sweet or cloying. The sweetness fades to a smoky flavor that a friend calls, accurately enough, “barbecue.” I can think of no better description of the smokiness than that, so I’ll cheerfully steal the simile. That’s “barbecue” as in potato chips— sounds dreadful, but is much better than it sounds.

I couldn’t use this all day, as it is a little hard on the nose due to its drying properties. As an occasional nicotine-fix, though, it’s perfect. One certainly wouldn’t need to carry much of it. And price-wise, it’s quite the value. A lifetime supply (one tin) can be had for around three dollars, which isn’t something you can say for most snuffs.



*It’s not actually as powerful as other American snuffs like Rooster or Levi Garrett, but still plenty powerful enough.

For those with spanish jewel, the Sweet and Mild makes a great dessert to a pinch of Spanish Jewel. I'll typicall take a pinch of spanish jewel and just as the cognac scent is fading a bit (about 15 minutes or so) I'll take a very small pinch of the Sweet and Mild, the two scents blend beautifully to create and very pleasent finish. It also causes the nose to run just a little releasing even more of the cognac scent from the spanish jewel. Just my $.02 worth...

Well see mountain man, the more cuts you have in the mouth, the faster the nicotine is absorbed!!!!! ;~)

In my limited experience with snuff this is one of my favorites, maybe I'm just a masochist, but even when you pull it into your throat it's still pleasant. I find that most of the sweet that I taste in it is when it runs down the back of my throat :D It has about the same sweetness of Red Seal to me, but much more powerful. Compared to the Garrett Scotch it's a kitten. The clumping can make it difficult to take though, as I either pull it to the back of my throat or have a whole clump land on my palate. I might have to find a hickory twig...

I did become familiar with one of the perils of snuff - the edges of the lid are razor sharp. I half dropped the lid, and caught it, only to get cut fairly bad. I think the knife would be a good alternative to the lid ...

My great grandma wouldn't use anything but a mesquite root.

see from what i understand all these different US tobacco companys have scrap, floor sweeping, etc..... just like we got ketchup from someone trying to figure out what too do with all the rotten and over rippened tomatos at the tomato canning factory, all the other cigar, chewing tobacco companys make "snuffs" so we end up with sweet scrap, and plain scrap. now this is just what i understand from research ok, dont hold all this too me. back in the day these snuff product were sold super cheap and targeted to very poor US folks, exspceialy the south, as a dip. if you talk to alot of southern US folks they tell storys of grandma always loving the sweet versions which were targeted towardsthe lady folks as a late day pick me up. even the cans are made for the ease of putting a licked finger in. which is mostly what they used. maybe a twig when they were in the company of more civalized folk. of course men took more a liking to the scotch style. american snuffs are so strong because the tobaccos used were not intented to ever go into a nasal snuff. they were for loose chews, twist, cigars, cheroots, etc. that is why english snuffs are much more pleasurable, have better flavor, and so on, because they were intended to be grown, sold and used as snuff, which was much more popular there. how anyone uses these sweet american snuffs nasally!!! i have no idea, it gags me...it is like snuffing splenda or equal dust on accident whilst making a cup of coffee, lol. i can see lightly using the scotch varietys nasally for the nicotine effect, but for no means the flavor enjoyment, since they are horribly bitter from the super high nic content. just my opinion on the last part and i will probably get pounded for it, LOL...

no, my main snuff that i use the most of is sharrows irish toast 22. i also enjoy alot of the f&ts like HDT bordeax and morlaix, etc. and of course i am also hooked on MCOG. no, i was not saying anything bad about them, and yes most snuff is made out of the scrap, some english snuffs and a few other are not. no, if anyone told me i would be using and enjoying the snuffs i got hooked on i would of laughed so hard as to cry. i was hard core straight, strong, good tobacco. i am a marlboro smoker and was camel straight smoker for years before that. i also used copenhagen for a long time daily, and still have a occasional pinch. i am also a traditonal straight tobacco pipe smoker who only like a little water added to my tobacco and nothing else, and i also enjoy a good Padron or perdomo cigar now and again. no, the first time i ever tried snuff was garretts at the age of 19, i about had to go to the hospital and threw it away. then a few years ago i saw some poshels at my local tobacconist while picking up a few cigars. i came home and was intrigued and trying to end the cig habit for good. at the time i was down to about 5 a day and mostly smoke my pipe with an occasional cigar if money would allow. so the next time my wife went out i had her pick up a few different ones. she came home and i was furious, i had told her to pick up only pure tobacco ones, and NO menthol. well she had gletchers and gawith apricot and ozona, you know the normal ones people find when they start. so they sat for a bit, and i finally tried the gletchers and was not as put off as i thought and then got horribly hooked on it. i found the others ok, but not as good. so a week later i placed an order to an oline place after some looking. got mostly naturals rooster, RR mills, dental, HDT and MCOG -because of a review i read. so they came i cracked open the rooster and was like aaaaaaaaah... took a big huge hit like i had been doing with the gletchers and yep almost died!!!! so, the MCOG sat for a week or so then at the time i could not smoke at night because of a new baby in our room and had been using the gletchers, so when i ran out i figured i would try the MCOG and fell in love. anyways long story short i love good straight tobacco snuffs but i never go out with out my MCOG, and just in the last half year started playing with the scented snuffs, mostly the f&t's and am very hooked on alot of them now. so my taste vary, its not one type or one company, its the good snuffs.... you can not tell me if you taste HDT or irish toast 22 they are far superior in taste to the americans that are highly bitter and acrid just from the shear fact they are pure nicotine.

Sweet snuffs were originated in an attempt by the snuff manufacturers to appeal to tobacco chewers, mainly men. In point of fact, throughout most of their history, American snuff makers were specialist operations, producing only snuff. It actually takes good quality leaf to produce a good quality strong snuff. They did not have any byproducts to dispose of. Finger rubbing probably never existed as a regular practice, except in some travel writer's lurid imagination. Snuff was priced on a par with other tobacco products. American snuffs contain far more leaf than English snuffs, which are mainly manufactured from midribs. Dark air-cured and fire-cured tobaccos are still used in some English snuffs. One thing that seems to get left out, snuff dipping was at least as popular among African Americans as it was with whites in the South.

tobacco is a funny thing, it has 10 or so different historys depending on who u are talking too, what type of tobacco use they are involved in, there location in the world, or what the manufactuer wants advertise or use as propaganda... i have read ten books on it, talked too a hundred people and almost never hear the same thing more then twice.... too funny? its the mystery weed.....and people will fist fight you over what they beleive or had heard as a child. we need to get mythbusters involved in this one, but then they would concockt some dumb experment with no controled variables and so on, and just confuse us more, LMFAO

Sounds like a great job!! I wonder if they got something similar to black lung or bakers lung? I guess there would be no need for a smoking break.

I just picked up a can of this stuff yesterday. I actually found it at the local Jewel-Osco Grocery/drug store to my surprise. I started snuffing it and I liked it, but it seemed a little to sweet for my taste. So after a good session I put it away. Today I've used it quite a bit after shaking it up a little. I find it to be less sweet today and I am catching more of the smokiness and complexity. I don't know why. Also after reading this thread earlier I took some in the lip as the pamphlet said. I really liked it. So After dinner I decided to dip some more. Per pamphlet poured some snuff in lid and brought to lip. But not per pamphlet I exhaled a little through my nose. May as well have been Gustav because snuff blew up fiercely and went in my left eye. I do not suggest anybody ever get snuff in ther eye. This is very bad for said eye . So if you intend to use in lip for the love of God do not breathe either in or out.

P.S. I hope it's not bad etiquete to revive an old thread. I figured theres enough of us who are newer here who might find some of these older threads informative and interesting without others having to restate what they've said before.

I'm happy to be snuffing stalks, stems, and veins. How about roots? I would be interested in some tobacco root snuff. Has this been tried? You growers should get on this right away! Try not to include too much dirt though. A little actually might be nice. You better pasteurize it or somthing.

I may be mistaken but isn't "scotch" snuff supposed to be made from stems or veins? I thought that is what made it Scotch snuff.

It would be interesting to know what it is exactly that we're sniffin. It's fairly common knowledge that for the last 30+ years cigarettes progressively contain more and more non-tobacco additives.

I can't recall the brand but the last time I smoked one of the drug-store variety mini-cigars, the package clearly stated it was made of predominately non-tobacco ingredients, but did warn that it contained tobacco. ;)

I'm confident most of the premium snuffs we use are just tobacco and flavorings, but I wonder about some of the ones made by Big Tobacco who unabashedly uses recon in their other tobacco products?

Nice, you hear of people sneaking things out of a restaurant but you don't hear much of people sneaking things in.