I use old Wilson’s half pound cannisters to store bulk buys of snuff in, and had an old batch of Toque original in one, but when I tried a bit just now I realised the lid had not been put on right and as a result the snuff had gone stale. After I had sobbed gently for a while I decided to make a blend out of it, so added to about 75 grammes of original(approximately): 25g Jockey Club 10g Dholakia Ganga 10g of Dholakia medicated 10g of Toque espresso And after stirring and shaking for a few minutes I was surprised to discover I had made a very nice sweet and spicy snuff with a good kick. If you are ever dumb enough to let 75g of original go stale and have the above ingredients spare, I recommend you try it.
Bummer that it went stale but…Great idea and recoup. Thats sounds good enough to grow a third nostril. 
LOL,yeah I was surprised it worked out so well
the mix should get even better after it sits for a few days.
Yeah, I agree in fact I was tempted to leave it alone for a few days, but I’m so impressed Im now sitting here with a snuff box full.
Yea, a friend in my local gave me a old drum of G. Smith & Sons Cardinal Menthol. It had gone, no taste what so ever. I tipped it out on to a A4 sheet of paper, put into the drum a few menthol crystals that I’d liquidise put the old snuff back and let it sit on it fore a few days. It seems even the cardinal has come back. I can’t let him try it now. He may want it back.
The Toque had lost all flavour as well, it just goes to show that even the deadest of snuffs can be useful or be brought back to life. I love the old cardinal range, which used to be very extensive. I’ve got a boxed set from the early 80’s when Smiths was a very different company, run by the one and only Vivian Rose.
@ snuffster, I remember Vivian Rose very well. He was a gent. I’m 200 miles north of London and don’t get up London now but the last time I was in that shop… What a change, it was run by monkeys that couldn’t care less.
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Me too Roderick, there was no way I was throwing that amount out.
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He sure is.
@ Snuff Head, you are the only person here apart from me that met him I think. When you think back to the old shop and the way that Mr Rose used to manage it and deal with customers, it is heartbreaking to go back. Half the amount of stock and now basically a cigar shop. And the staff, well it seems to be owned by someone I heard, very accurately, described as a ‘cockney wanker’. I would incorporate that into your own description and call him a cockney wanking monkey.
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Well, it was just what I had spare and figured there was no real loss if it didn’t work out. Because the the Toquue had lost its flavour, with the other stuff added it just turned into a sweet spicy snuff. I was pretty surprised it was so good.
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Its just unbelievable that an institution like that should be owned by someone who doesn’t give one. Surely the twat would be just as happy owning an off license or chip shop. The Intermational Snuff Takers Association should lobby to have him expelled.
@ snuffster, I never shopped in Mr Rose’s store in a tuxedo. Nor was I a big spender. I remember a hot summer that I was in London and spent the afternoon in and out almost every pub in Soho. I came out of “The Dog & Duck” corner of Thrith & Bateman Street and made my way to Charing Cross Road and to Smith’s Snuff Shop. I wasn’t drunk, but a little dis-oriented, and after my purchase of some of the snuff. I asked Mr Rose for the direction I should go to make it for Kings Cross Rail Road Station. Vivian escorted me to the door, No not like a Club Doorman, he smiled and pointed me in the right direction down Caring Cross Road. I reckon now if I’d of done the same, then my pocket-book would have vanished! And I don’t mean in Soho!! @ FarlelyF, save your money. Sam Gawith has Black Coffee and if you want Golden Cardinal = Sam’s Bouquet. I suppose The monkeys from Smith’s are hunting me down now, care I? No, I have my own monkeys!
Yeah, thats them!! A stndard conversation in the modern Smiths would go something like this: Customer: Do you have any of that coffee snuff, you know, the snuff you are famous the world over for: Wanking chimp No 1: Dunno mate, oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Customer to chimp 2: Maybe you could help me sir? Wanking chimp No 2: Dunno mate, gotta have a…OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH OOH