FyT’s High Dry Toast stopped selling a while ago, so I picked up a lot of WoS’s High Dry Toast. Now I see that the FyT one is being sold again, my question is: What is the difference between one and the other?
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frandelrio
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volunge
Hi @frandelrio! According to the descriptions, F&T High Dry Toast “is made from Zimbabwean Flue Cured Stem, Dark Fired Leaf & Sun Cured Leaf”, but Irish No. 22 is “a blend of dark fired tobacco and stem” / “has a natural tobacco flavour drawn from Zimbabwe, Burley, Malawi and flue cured tobaccos”.
Every now and again folks argue if they are identical or not. Last time revisiting both snuffs and comparing side-by-side (about a year ago), I had difficulties telling them apart - #22 perhaps was just a little bit coarser than HDT, if anything. Otherwise - in terms of smell, colour and strength - I found them exactly the same.
For what it’s worth, I’ve seen very different batches of #22, varying from surprisingly coarse and moist to really fine and dry powder. In my experience, HDT batches are more consistent, but I’m less familiar with it - only went through 3 large tins during my 25+ snuff taking years, so take my words with a grain of salt.
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frandelrio
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clsmoothie
Yeah, that should be F&T HDT. It has a fireplace/fired tobacco quality to it. There shouldn’t be any difference. I don’t think they do the labeling like that anymore nor are they selling any tins like that anymore (at least from what I can see).
I had an Old Paris tin like that with the Wilson’s label on it – it was still regular Old Paris.
So. it’s going to be this one: HDT
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volunge
It’s the same snuff, just different container. As far as your and my snuff taking memory goes, HDT was always made by WoS, no matter the tin type.
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frandelrio
Thank you very much for the answers, a big hug.