What a great time I’m having with my latest snuff purchases! Thanks so much to the forum for helping me gain a deeper appreciation of this lovely form of tobacco.
I have discovered new brands, new styles, new scents and not a one has been a disappointment, yes even including Toque Cheese and Bacon.
When I first started using snuff, my understanding was quite narrow and I though I understood what it was all about. Then I found snuffs I actually liked the smell of! Imagine that! Recently I’ve now understood the importance of fresh snuff and how to properly take care of it. So I feel very appreciative of all the experience and shared knowledge here. No doubt I still know nothing, but it sure is a lot of fun learning about it all.
You are very welcome. On this site everyone has a role - whether its a new snuff taker passing on his or her thoughts on the one or two snuffs they have tried, to those incredible experts who seem to be able to answer any question however esoteric - that is what makes it a great forum. Our snuff manufacturers and retailers are also an integral part of the whole. Where else would you find someone like Roderick - a successful producer with the time to talk to the customers and actually care, or the likes of Mr Snuff always looking for the best deals for us. I don’t need to mention everyone to say that everyone plays their part in one way or another.
That’s the great thing about sites like this. Everyone loves snuff and they are connecting with other people who love snuff or are just starting to love snuff.
The whole snuff rennaissance is still mind boggling to me. Pre-internet I thought I knew everything about snuff and had tried every blend known to man. I was like a frog thinking his puddle was the whole universe :)) My daily rotation was a bunch of snuffs from a proper tobacco shop in town and they had a couple of Poschl snuffs which were regarded with wonder. I got the occasional Tranter’s snuff because the tobacconist had one or two. Tranter’s would send you a little paper price list and it was the most exotic thing, getting snuff through the mail. Indian, US, German (bar 2: Gletcher and apricot) and the rest were years in the future. I made the first Abraxas (only it wasn’t called that and I made it with a mix of cigars and RYO tobacco, often with a large can of JandH thrown in for good measure) about 1980 for myself and about a dozen other people I had evangelised into snuff, btw I hasten to add that I don’t put cigars, RYO or other brand’s of snuff in Abraxas anymore
Then came Snuffhouse, wow what a shock that was! meeting the likes of Troutstroker, the Prof, Philips et al quickly established that I knew precisely nothing. That was a great day, not a bad one, because at last I could actually learn more. The online stores and Toque brought us into the modern age. I would love to have seen how Roderick would have operated pre-advertsing bans on TV and then print media. I think the UK would have turned to snuff in a couple of years and I firmly believe snuff would have reached the level that smoking did in the 1920s and 30s. Even battling against the tide of bans and adversity he has probably saved thousands of lives, which of course will never be recognised.
