Thats interesting lunecat that you mention toffee as that is what I get from the Lundy Foot. I was saying Candy Floss but I think toffee is in there maybe moreso. Perhaps your subconcious is comming into play. I do get the sweetness more as I am chewing gum, the sugar taste in that seems to bring out the LF sweetness. Bet if you sucked a toffee it might work really well especially a high nicotine one. They really should have called it Sir Walter Scott’s Highland Toffee but probably the name is already taken? so then Sir Walter Scott’s Highland Candy Floss! or toffee fudge? Having another bullet of Lundy Foot. Maybe it’s growing on me more. Seems very nice. Getting more of a peppery hit this time and perhaps feeling the nicotine more maybe because I’m using the breath in first method and can now take it straight from the bullet. Good.
just recieved, the whole package smells incredible, but i think il wait till nose is clear of any other remnants before lundy foot.
straight to the lungs. jesus this stuff is seriously reminding me of sweet scotch. mild flavour though, not sure right now, but it reminds me of something.
Reminds me of something too…I don’t know about this one. I had very high hopes for it - understandable given the price - but all in all it smells like…well, a foot. A comely foot perhaps, a maidenly foot that has spent a shade too long in a glass slipper - …but a foot nonetheless. IMHO, no current HT-type snuff matches original G Smith’s IHT (sigh…). GH’s Irish D is very good, F&T DHT, SG IDL and WoS No.22 are all distinctive with their own merits - but I just can’t get past the initial smell of this particular snuff. Personally, I would have avoided the name Lundy Foot as somewhat too accurate for effective marketing.
“I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I just squandered.” - George Best
Lundy Foot refers to the original purveyor of this type of snuff. Know your snuff history. @I_snuff_therefore___ It’s OK.We all need TLA’s (three letter acronyms) Lundy Foot A finely milled, toasted, high nicotine blend of American Virginias and Indian Rustica tobaccos, named in memory of the famous 18th century Dublin snuff chandler and his employee, Michael Larey, the “Irish blackguard”, who inadvertently invented Scotch (scorched) snuff when he fell into a drunken stupor and allowed tobacco drying in a kiln to roast.
Thanks. I think. Currently studying Vaping History. At my leisure of course.
jpsavage: Lundy Foot refers to the original purveyor of this type of snuff. Know your snuff history
I’ve come across this Lundy Foot kiln fairy tale before… however, it involves a fundamental contradiction. Regular snuffs are not dried in kilns after grinding - except for High Toast types. So High Toast snuffs cannot have been discovered on the basis of a kiln accident, since no ordinary snuff would have been placed in one in the first place. The true story is more prosaic, and is recorded in the booklet Ten Minutes’ Advice in Choosing Cigars; with a Word or Two on Tobacco; and Something about Snuff, London 1833, p27: “A large tobacco warehouse had been burned down in Dublin, and … Lundy Foot, then a poor man - a porter at the same warehouse, purchased, for a mere trifle, a large quantity of scorched and burnt Tobacco from off the ruins. This he ground up into a new kind of Snuff which he sold excessively cheap to the poorer sort of Irish. It was much admired for its pungency, and soon grew into immense repute. Lundy Foot opened a shop, gave the Snuff his own name, and became a thriving man; but his invention has generally been known as Irish Blackguard, from the persons who first gave publicity to its excellence.” http://top25snuff.com/images/dokumenty/Ten\_minutes\_advice\_in\_choosing\_cigars.pdf
@Hapax Well done! I find this explanation to be much more plausible. Seems that the drunken one is much more colloquial and makes for a nice tale. Believe that the inebriated lackey story has taken hold and has a bit more “romance” to it.
It might be a fairy tale but not solely on the grounds of a kiln accident being impossible. Each snuff manufacturer has their own way of doing things and these are invariably secret - kilning finished snuff may have been something Lundy did for some of his recipes. Also, one version of the story just refers to the kilning of the base tobacco which when milled became the first HDT. It’s impossible to say one way or another as we don’t have access to his recipes or methodology. It’s hard to imagine smoke damaged tobacco being useable but not impossible I suppose.
I think this snuff is great,I call this my “time machine snuff”.To me it smells like it has come from the 18th century,I can imagine myself back in time when snuffing this.fantastic .
@snuffykib I believe this statement applies to most or all of the Artisan snuffs.
@snuffykib I believe this statement applies to most or all of the Artisan snuffs.
Yes,but this one in particular to me.we all are different and the thread is about lundyfoot!
Wouldn’t be the first time a thread was hijacked around here. No intention to do so. @snuffykib
Wouldn’t be the first time a thread was hijacked around here. No intention to do so. @snuffykib
I didn’t mean to sound harsh,you are right the artisans are all very good.possibly the nicest I’ve tried.
Looking forward to the Lundy Foot. My current toast is No. 22 and have a stash of Irish D Light
Hapax - at much the same time as “Ten Minutes’ Advice in Choosing Cigars; with a Word or Two on Tobacco; and Something about Snuff” was published in 1833, a number of highly regarded journals, magazines and periodicals, among them The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Grahams’s Illustrated Magazine, Chambers Edinburgh Journal, The Belfast News and The New York Mirror all published the alternative story on the origins of Lundy Foot’s Irish Blackguard. According to them, Foot made a brand of snuffs which " it was common practice to dry them in a kiln overnight" and it was this that Michael Leary allowed to become scorched when he fell into a drunken stupor. Both stories have their historical interest, but both may well be apocryphal. As Abraxas has pointed out, there was enormous competition among snuff manufacturers at that time and their secrets were closely guarded. Curiously, a copy of the New York Mirror dated April 27th 1833, which covered the story, was for sale on ebay some time ago. Johnny
it is always possible each story was made up to make interest in the snuff. It’s not like marketing is a new thing.
BTW and slightly off topic. Broke out the Irish D Light. About 8 years old and… Quite nice. Going for some more now.