With such large communities here I am perplexed why I have not been able to find any Indian snuffs at small kiosk types stores that might not follow local regulations as they should. I went around Jackson Heights, a neighborhood in NYC with a very large south Asian population and was not able to find anything. Has anyone had luck via such avenues?
In the past US snuffers were finding Indian snuffs at Indian food stores, try looking in all the Indian/Asian specialty stores.
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You should be able to find snuff at Gujarati / Patel owned stores.
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I shall try again…probably went to 10 or so places last year looking.
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@snuffandsympathy, I don’t know how the things are in the USA, but most (if not all) “exotic” tobacco products (like nasal snuff, naswar, khaini and raw tobacco) in the UK brick-and-mortar stores are sold under the counter.
I was visiting the UK recently and asked for Chaini Khaini for a quick fix at some corner shops (7 or 8), mostly operated by Indian/Punjabi folks. Most just stared at me, almost frightened, and shook their heads, but a few recognized the Chaini Khaini sachet I presented and kindly (smiling) explained that I won’t find “cheeny keeny” in that part of London. Kind of a bummer, because I spotted some empty ChKh sachets on the pavement in a vicinity and had high hopes.
My bro had a better luck last summer. He found some shops in NE London carrying decent naswar, white snuff and ChKh. He even learned to ask for those products in Punjabi. I was given whereabouts, but being short of time didn’t go to that particular place…
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@volunge I know exactly the nervous looks you are talking about. For some reason I often get mistaken for an undercover cop. I am not that hopeful that I will have any luck as many of the former Indian businesses are now run by Bangladeshi or Pakistani but I will see, pan stalls seemed like the obvious choice for me but those did not pan out (pun intended)…
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