Does anyone else love this stuff as much as I do? I picture a guy in the old days with a tight rope of black hand spun tobacco grating it against his rasp every time he wanted some snuff. I really like the SG dispensers, too. Great tobacco. No flavoring- just natural tasty stuff with a melancholic flavor. It’s very coarse, but I like it.
I plan to include some black snuffs in my next budgeted order. Thanks for another to the list.
I guess not many people have tried it. I really like the stuff. I think if anyone likes Kendall Brown, they’d like this stuff a lot. I used mine up really quick!
I wonder if this is the base tobacco that SG uses for their black coffee.
Bryan; I had no plans to try it soon, but what you just said sold me! (Big Kendal Brown fan, here) Cheers, Java
I’ve just bought a tin of this and I really like it. I’m not keen on the new SG dispensers though, I enjoy pinching out of a tin. Stefan
I, too, prefer a tin- but those dispensers are really good when doing something where your fingers get dirty- like fishing. I tried to take mine apart and reuse it, though and it broke
The new container also makes a great flute when empty.
LOL- I’ll have to try that.
it’s like bit’s of coal or dried up peat. lol but good.
I like lots of dark snuffs, coarse and moist too. But I just couldn’t get into the Black Rapee for some reason. It was perhaps too coarse, or was sticky and clumping together too much for me. I had a hard time getting it out of the dispenser, and then the pieces were so large, I had to insert them into my nose rather than sniff them. It smelled OK, and had a nice bit of burn to it. I didn’t hate it or anything, but I guess it just wasn’t a standout for me.
Great snuff but difficult to use nasally if you mind the obvious mess. Works very well as dip as well.
Not a favourite of mine. Good leathery rich, coal tar like tobacco, but it’s too coarse for me, so I gave it away. There is no doubting the quality, but I don’t think the new dispenser helps matters.
I prefer the more flavoursome brown rappee (London Brown). Both are impossible to use from the new-fangled effort that replaced the tin, but drums are available from My Smoking Shop. Hugh Lofting, amid shell-bursts over the trenches, found sanity in the form of his improbable Doctor Dolittle. In this extract Jip (a dog) is able to trace a missing person from the fact that he takes black rappee snuff. The dog communicates this to the good doctor. Then the boy took from his pocket a great, big red handkerchief and said, “This was my uncle’s too.” As soon as the boy pulled it out, Jip shouted, “Snuff, by Jingo!–Black Rappee snuff. Don’t you smell it? His uncle took snuff-- Ask him, Doctor.” The Doctor questioned the boy again; and he said, “Yes. My uncle took a lot of snuff.” “Fine!” said Jip. “The man’s as good as found. 'Twill be as easy as stealing milk from a kitten. Tell the boy I’ll find his uncle for him in less than a week. Let us go upstairs and see which way the wind is blowing.” “But it is dark now,” said the Doctor. “You can’t find him in the dark!” “I don’t need any light to look for a man who smells of Black Rappee snuff,” said Jip as he climbed the stairs. “If the man had a hard smell, like string, now–or hot water, it would be different. But snuff!–Tut, tut!” The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting.
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Thanks for that little excerpt of literature, PhillipS. I wonder if McChrystal’s Jip was named for that dog.
This might be a little off topic but does anybody know if (and where) you can get SG snuff in bulk?
Yes. Try snuff.me.uk. They sell them in 250g drums, I believe. They even have rare ones like White Label. from what I understand they don’t have most varieties on hand, but get them directly from the mill when you order.
JIP Snuff was bought by McChrystals quite recently. JIP Medicated Snuff Ltd of Nuneaton originally made it. It was a favourite of miners and distributed to colliery canteens. With the closure of the Warwickshire coal pits in the 1980s the local snuff company likewise folded. JIP is an acronym, but I can’t recall what is stands for. Certainly not a dog. Anyway, this is how Jip the dog finally leads Doctor Dolittle over the ocean wave to an enormous snuff box full of Black Rappee and its Crusoe-like owner who declares “For four days I have had nothing to eat or drink. I have lived on snuff." http://lofting.thefreelibrary.com/Story-of-Doctor-Dolittle/2-19 250 gram drums of Samuel Gawith snuff are available from My Smoking Shop - http://www.mysmokingshop.co.uk/index2.php?mod=mancats&man=84&sec=1102
Greens of Leeds is another source for bulk Gawith. They don’t list the entire range online but if you call them up you can order any sort.
Thanks Xander and Brad! I’ll check em out