So - my 55 year old snuff arrived this morning! I have a strong urge to try it, but wanted to ask you guys what the best way of approaching this is? Call the doctor first? :o) As usual this page won’t let me upload pics, so here is a link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/metania/sets/72157622127341488/
Wow, that’s really rusty. Be very careful. (Nice background includung your bulk and Ntsu!) What I said in the previous thread is still my advice. previous CC thread
Ah - the can literally fell apart when opened! It is totally rusty inside, and though the snuff looks perfectly all right, it has a strange smell to it! Will not try this on my nose I think… :o(
Carhart’s has a strange smell when fresh! Have you had it fresh before? I think its fermented more than most of the sweet scotches. Hopefully you can at least salvage the label as a souveneir.
Ah the label fell apart when I touched it - think it has been stored in a damp place, and then later in a dry. No I never had this snuff, so I have no idea how it’s suppusoed to smell?
Viking, Sir, do you suffer from a tennis elbow? I hope not because the pain it causes is terrible. I’ve been operated on both elbows already. Moutain biking caused the tendons to shear. You really went wild with that poor tin! Totally demolished it. As for the snuff, I will surely use it. Scrape out the inner part of the “plug” and go for it. Try a small pinch at first. Thanks for sharing the beautiful photo’s with us. I always love to see what it looks like on your side of the globe. And the snuff box, where did you find it? How much snuff does it hold?
Sir Pieter> Yes I do indeed suffer from a tennis elbow! Since April, but a lot of physiotherapy, laser treatment, drugs, and rehab work-out later, it is considerably better now! I am able to work on my degree again now, thank God! Yes I believe the biking cause! Mine probably built itself up over ca 8 years of crusading against the infidels, waving my sword! And those raids on Ireland and Scotland defintely also did the job on giving me a tennis elbow! He he - apart from joking about it, it is the most nagging, annoying and painful thing I had since my gall bladder dumped me and wanted to leave :o) A tennis elbow is like having a sprained sinnew or a broken arm or… aargh it’s tough! So did surgery help? I was told I might lose sensitivity in my fingers, and since I sometimes play musical instruments, I would not want to risk this.
Pieter> He he - yes the tin got to taste my sword (named Thorgeir :o) I did hollow out the snuff, and it looks ok! It just smells weird I think. The tin was a 5 ounce size. Really? Ok, here are a couple of good links to my city, Arhus: http://www.visitaarhus.com/danmark/da-dk/menu/turist/turist-maalgruppe-forside.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus
I tried a pinch! Couldn’t help it! Very interesting, distinct sweet scent, very sweet! Can’t detect what the sweetness reminds me of? The tobacco has a toast-like scent (though a little dusty) but it’s not bad at all. Wow! 55 year old snuff, and it still has a taste!
Hi Viking - that looks really old! An easy way to post pics here: First right-click on your picture, then select copy image location. On the add comments dialog, select format comments as html. Then click the blue screen icon (insert image). Paste in the image location, then click ok. voila 
Sprangalang - you’re not making any sense to my Mac mind :o) “right click”? Eh? He he… :o)
“Some friends and I drank a can of beer that was from 1914-1918 and had been brought back from the trenches. The outside was in better condition than your snuff and we had to use a can opener to get in. To our amazement the beer tasted like it had only just come from the brewery and the insides of the can were in perfect condition.” Must have been WWII vintage. Couldn’t have been from the First World War era as canned beer only became available in the 1930s. http://www.beercannews.com/BEER\_CAN\_HISTORY/body\_beer\_can\_history.html
Roderick> Yes exactly, and so it is easier to fit in the TNT stick too :o)
@ Viking, the surgery worked 100%. Right arm was fixed about 3 years ago and the left 6 months later. But it takes about 6 months to heal completely although you can use your arm/hand again after 6 weeks. I was riding again 2 months after the ops. Nothing else helped for me. I had 7 cortisone injections in my right elbow. Every injection gave me some relieve for about 10 days only. And I don’t know which is more painful, the torn tendon or the injections! I’ve tried everything in the book plus some “traditional cures” without success. When the left arm also packed in, I went straight back to the doctor and asked him to operate soonest. I just could not face the same suffering again. Today both arms/hands are perfect again and I don’t even think about it when I’m out in the bundu, riding my beloved bike.
Pieter> That is so good to hear! I really do understand, since I suffer from the same! I had a “double” tennis elbow, meaning that it affected both the upwards and downwards movement of my hand! I couldn’t lift a glass of water, or turn a door knob for more than a month! I hope I won’t need surgery, since the recovery time would mean losing my job (which I don’t particularly like, but need!) I did ask for an injection, but my doctor advised me not to, but to try to be patient do my exercizes instead. But the thing is, as you well know, one never knows, if or when it will return! Maybe it will - maybe never! But mine seems to be recovering, slowly, but definitely! Two of my colleagues suffer from exactly the same. One of them for at least a year. She does nothing about it, but still doesn’t understand “why it doesn’t just go away?”
Viking, duh silly me. lol I can’t wait to try out my wife’s Mac!
He he - I love mine (all three of them!) What I particularly like, is that using a Mac makes you GLAD while working on the computer. And they don’t even pay me to say this ha ha :o)
@ Pieter - I’ve had cortisone injections in both knees in the past, to relieve my arthritis. You’re not wrong, it’s extremely painful though the relief from the arthritis pain was wonderful, if not so long lasting.
Hi Pieter! Actually that one also grows on me! At first I did not like it - to express my impressions very very diplomatically! Now I find myself going to the stash cupboard more and more often to pinch from it… :o)) So yes please, I humble myself before South African snuff :o)