I’m a huge WW2 buff and was curious what are some snuffs from WW2 era that were around and used that are still made and what was used then? Germans during ww2 and British,Americans?
If Americans in WWII were taking any snuff I would bet money it was chaw and dip and nothing else. I mean the classics like Garrett snuff and regular Kentucky leaf chaw like Day’s Work, Redman, etc.
Nasal snuff as we know it on this forum was never big in America AFAIK and it is still a small niche compared to other forms of 'baccy consumption.
1 Like
And I would immagine a few Bernard’s still made today a few recipes atleast would have been used in WW2 by the Germans I would immagine. Anyone know ages of any Bernard snuff recipes? And was Sternecker around then?
1 Like
786 @Snuffbox, Never big in America? Where do you think tobacco originates, Sheffield? Wow, mediaeval tobacco!
All of the old people (I’m forty-one, so I really mean old, from my perspective) around here recognize nasal snuff and what one does with it. None has registered surprise at the contents of a can going up my nose. Even people my dad’s age recognize it for what it is, and I grew up in the sticks in a town which to this day doesn’t even have 2000 people. Only people in my age bracket and younger don’t know what it is or its proper use–and that’s only if they are uneducated or stupid; my circle of friends all recognized what it was when I began snuffing in my mid thirties so I didn’t need to deploy my apologia into their ears.
There is a reason our Senate has not one but two snuffboxes permanently installed–it was originally one in the middle but too many senators from both sides were congregating around it.
While it is many years since snuff was the chief form of tobacco enjoyed here, it was at one time just as big here as anywhere else in the Anglophone world.
We have a past here in The Colonies, you know.
2 Likes
Goering was a big snuff user. He often used to give away snuff boxes with a swastika on them as presents to favoured underlings. You occasionally see them for sale on eBay. There was a post about it somewhere on this forum. Not something I’d feel comfortable using, really.
2 Likes
I would love one of those! But I have been fully aware of the swastika’s use as a sacred symbol all over the world–from ancient times until recently–since middle school. I own an American good luck charm from 1913 with a prominent swastika on one side.
1 Like
@slobandtom, quite pricey for what look to me like mediocre snuff boxes. But keep your eye open, they turn up. Yes, I’m aware of the swastika’s history, you see them on temples in Bali. But it’s hard to pretend that a snuffbox produced in Germany in 1939-45 is celebrating an ancient Hindu fertility symbol.
3 Likes
@slobandtom I guess you live in a tobacco-producing state but I can tell you what you said about everyone knowing what snuff is is not typical and not representative of the rest of the country. I spent 40 years south of the Mason-Dixon line and in the western states and I’ve been in 39 states between work and vacations. Not once in all that time have I ever seen a single person taking nasal snuff. I have seen plenty of people dipping Garrett and chewing plug and Cope etc.
I’m sure people from New Orleans think it’s normal to walk down the street with a whiskey sour in their hand. Try that in most other places and you’re going down to the police station.
You used to be able to drink beer in the car and drive in Texas as long as you weren’t drunk (I’m Texan btw). Try that in most other places and you’re going to jail.
You used to be able to check your guns when you rode up to a bar in Arizona. Now bringing guns into a bar is going to get you at least a night in jail.
The point is what goes on in certain places doesn’t represent the whole country and the fact that you grew up in a tobacco-friendly place doesn’t change the fact nasal snuff in America has always been a miniscule market compared to other forms of tobacco consumption. If you check the sales figures over the years you’ll see what I mean.
1 Like
Bernard snuff is the oldest snuff producer in Germany I believe? Correct. I just wish I had dates of the recipes made so I can see what is still made that was available then
1 Like
@Snuffbox, yea I agree with you on the current situation; my point was only that it has not always been so. There was indeed a time when it was hugely popular here. That was long ago, but it was so nonetheless.
[fwiw I live in Michigan, generally not thought of as a tobacco-producing state]
@JakartaBoy, yea, I wouldn’t think that the Goering boxes were celebrating the original meaning of the symbol, certainly; only that I don’t experience the natural revulsion that many–for good reason–feel toward it.
1 Like
recognizerecognize SnuffboxMember
December 7 edited December 7 PMFlag
@slobandtom I guess you live in a tobacco-producing state but I can tell you what you said about everyone knowing what snuff is is not typical and not representative of the rest of the country. I spent 40 years south of the Mason-Dixon line and in the western states and I’ve been in 39 states between work and vacations. Not once in all that time have I ever seen a single person taking nasal
snuff. I have seen plenty of people dipping Garrett and chewing plug and
Cope etc.
I’m sure people from New Orleans think it’s normal to walk down the street with a whiskey sour in their hand. Try that in most other places and you’re going down to the police station.
You used to be able to drink beer in the car and drive in Texas as long as you weren’t drunk (I’m Texan btw). Try that in most other places and you’re going to jail.
You used to be able to check your guns when you rode up to a bar in Arizona. Now bringing guns into a bar is going to get you at least a night in jail.
The point is what goes on in certain places doesn’t represent the whole country and the fact that you grew up in a tobacco-friendly place doesn’t change the fact nasal snuff in America has always been a miniscule market compared to other forms of tobacco consumption. If you check the sales figures over the years you’ll see what I mean."
All though I don’t disagree with you snuffbox, I do think the memory or knowledge is more common than one might think in the US. I live in San Francisco, and some reccoernise it’s tobacco I’m sticking up my nose and others think it’s an illegal drug
2 Likes