As everyone knows, I am still relatively new to snuff and the forums here. I started off with Toque products. Most of them are pretty easy to take. So as I browsed the forums early during the day, and late at night I discovered that it doesn’t just stop at Toque. I was recommended trying toasts, and what better way to begin than with F&T HDT? Let me just start off by saying WOW. The grind is VERY fine. Much finer than I am used to. I won’t lie, I was nervous before taking my first pinch. But what struck me the most was the packaging. It’s elegant. The tin/jar itself is a nice break from the normal WoS tin. I absolutely loathe them. So I open it up, and take a whiff. Very dry, leathery scent to it. Nervousness increased. Too bad I was nervous, because this snuff is on point. It wasn’t difficult to take at all. Maybe my technique is just refined well-enough to sample drier, finer snuffs. The leathery notes I was getting are still present. It’s almost as if I walked into a hardware store like Lowe’s. Not a bad thing. And the nicotine, wow. It’s there. It crept up on me, and smacked me. With an aluminum bat. I love it. 5/5 Edit: Upon more pinches, I now detect a smoky scent. Reminds me of a burnt-out charcoal grill. Childhood memories.
@killeidoskope Damn Grasshopper, you’re ready for the Holy Grail of Toasts: SWS Lundy Foot. SWS Havana Toast is/was right up there, but alas, it’s an ex toast, drawn the curtain and joined the choir invisible. :((
I have Lundy Foot sitting in my shopping cart at MrSnuff. Just waiting for the government to give me my damn paycheck on Friday.
I too have had childhood scent associations with this snuff. I would be curious to hear of any other childhood memories that HDT has brought up from anyone else. Enjoy this snuff classic!
I most certainly will. This 25g will be gone in no time.
Growing up, it was common in our neighborhood to burn leaves and sticks in the early autumn when we were cleaning up our yards for the winter - HDT always reminds me of when a fire was going a few houses down, mixed with the fall air. Great memories, great snuff.
I just received an order with toasts to try, one of which was F&T HDT and I agree , great snuff… I really like the container as well !
It’s the snuff. To be honest, I like it better than Lundy Toast. Not better than Havana Toast, but better than Lundy.
I was using Lundy Foot in my bullet. An all day snuff. It worked well. I found myself ignoring my snuff spooning box, ignoring my Oliver Twist and nicotine tablets and going for the Lundy Foot bullet. I was even taking it in the middle of the night when woken up by the dogs barking. Now I’ve switched to F&T HDT. At first, there did not seem to be much difference. Then it started to make me cough. Next I found that I was getting short of breath (something I noticed when I was using a lot of Q-snuff). A lot of snuffs are an acquired taste. For me F&T HDT is more of an acquired distaste - the more I use the less I like it. When my next consignment of Lundy Foot arrives, my F&T HDT will be put aside long with my tins of Q-snuff.
I have bought some High Dry Toast. I think the burnt smokey smell ruins it for me. I prefer a clean tobacco smell and not too many frills. I dont think i will be buying toast again. Got a smell of burnt plastic to me…Why is that ?
I prefer Toque Natural Toast or Wilsons Irish No22 to the F and T- precisely because of the burnt scent.