I don’t participate elsewhere, @fredh, so I can’t comment on SF. Don’t think for a moment I was ever laughing at you. Language amuses me. Language used well is wit. When I see a well-crafted phrase, I smile, play with it, roll it around my tongue. There is humor in your terminology and I find it hard to believe it was completely unintentional–that turn of phrase was crafted. Anti-elitist elitism captures the absurdity of the viewpoint you are mocking. I salute that. I was also laughing at the potential for any snobbery/reverse snobbery anywhere in this form of tobacco use. Snuff is so overwhelmingly affordable compared to my Comoy or Charatan collecting days. I can get a months supply for roughly 40 dollars. If I went crazy on on the one-man operation snuff makers, I might spend 75. Compare it to the price of any vice. That would be a weeks worth of cigarettes at this point. Maybe two weeks of pipe tobacco. I guess I just don’t see the potential for the “Everyman” snuff vs the snuff of the gilded aristocrat. If my tastes differ from yours or anyone else’s, of course I might raise a eyebrow. Heck, I might think you’re crazy. (I’m looking at you, chili spice sniffers). I certainly wouldn’t say “snuff what you like and like what you snuff.” The phrase, is, as you say, hackneyed; however, I can say it matters not one whit to me what you happen to like. And I’ll read everyone’s posts with pleasure-I already am looking at snuffs I’d have never known existed before. I’m glad there are lone wolves experimenting on the fringes. I’m glad there are relatively large blending houses. Room enough for both.
i dont know what it is about F&T when i first opened kendal brown and smelled i knew i would like it. even tho it seemed to be a finer grind. it was easy to take. i bought 50 grams of along with 4-5 other F&T products i didnt get HDT because i heard how fine it is. someone compared it to white elephant. i dont think ill get good at those untill i moisten them