Are there any members who like this snuff?

not me, it smells like cow dung.

It smells worse than cow dung to me.

I wanted to like it, but I could not get it to stay in my nose. (and it had a really strong amonia smell that I could not get past)

I havent tried it yet. Would like to try it but dont want to pay overseas shipping.

Yay! Taxi snuff. I was on a Taxi binge for a while. I think I’ll get some Taxi Rock again. That one is special.

A friend in South Africa was kind enough to provide me with some of this. I owe him (and everyone) my honest evaluation. I’ve finally mastered the art of sniffing Taxi. First you have to let it dry a bit. It will dry in the tin in the course of a few weeks or you can leave the lid off for a day or two. This will also air it some and vent some of the ammonia. Then you have to kind of bunch it up with your fingers, almost like packing dip or loose snus. If its sticking together a lot, just push it in, sniffing won’t help you. If its dried a bit, a very powerful sniff will get it in. If your nose is even the least bit blocked, forget it, you have to push it in. Yeah, it does have something of a dung smell to it. My wife tells me that all my snuffs smell like poop anyway. There is something distincly African about that smell though… Maybe it reminds me of the zoo with all the exotic animals. It can be off-putting but not unbearable once you get used to it. Remember they never smell quite the same in the nose as out. Benefits: won’t hit throat, won’t cause throat draininge, excellent nicotine (even the blue), exotic Drawbacks: foul smell, very difficult to get into nose, often falls out of nose I don’t think it should be in our beginner’s guide as a starter snuff. While the lack of throat issues is nice, its too difficult to get into the nose and that smell… I can’t see offering it to someone who has never tried snuff, “Hey, try this! This is snuff. Its the greatest form of tobacco, ever!” They would think me insane. Honestly, my first impression was pretty bad, but its grown on me a little. Not enough to ever get it again, but I thought it was better than Magnet Peach- that was vile!

I’m not in love with Taxi either but I do like the Magnet Peach / Taxi Blue mix a lot. To overcome the problem with “snuffing” the stuff, I empty the tin into a big dinner plate and leave it there until it has dried out. Then I mix it with the Peach, which is a dry snuff and thus dry out the Taxi even some more. In this way the Txai becomes “snuffable” and I like the taste a lot

Hevn’t tried Ntsu Is it much like Taxi? I troed Taxi Rock. Mine was pretty dried out, so it was much easier to sniff. The spearmint flavor keeps the safari in check too.

I haven’t heard of Ntsu snuff. I have really started to like my Magnet Peach, and Spearmint though. It reminds me of a toned down version of Taxi.

So which one smells like dung? The red? I’ll have to give it a try.

The red and blue are almost identical in moisture, grind and *ahem* odor. The red just has more nicotine, but the blue is fairly strong on its own. Green, which I have not tried, is menthol. Rock, which is spearmint flavored is not bad, I think it uses the blue as the base. @ leman: the only source for Ntsu that I know of is Wesley’s in the list of shops on the FAQ page. Andy over at Snuff Talk had some and did a review over there and showed a picture. He was not very flattering to it, but can it be much different than Taxi? I think even Pieter also shies away from it. Yes, Pieter? There was some talk about it here about 2 or 3 months ago and I seem to remember he was telling us to avoid it, LOL.

I’ll have to try them all. Thanks, Xander. EDIT: are Magnet Spearmint and Taxi Spearmint the same snuff? I see that Snuff Store carries them all.

Taxi Spearmint is called Taxi Rock. Its in a grey can. Do you need to see a picture?

Haha, no. I wasn’t looking at the one I have. Duh. I just read that Rock is coarse and Magnet Spearmint is fine. Dur-dee-dee

D-D-D Lol

I only have the Magnet, and it is pretty fine. Probably about the same grind/moisture Sam Gawith Dr. Verey’s Plus, if you’ve ever had that. Maybe Tim can tell us if it is the same as the Taxi, but I can’t imagine a Taxi product that fine. Who knows Taxi Rock could find it’s way onto my next Snuff Store order.

Well, if Taxi smells like cow dung, then I like the smell of cow dung!! It’s not one of my favourites and I only sniff it when it’s mixed with Magnet Peach. But, it’s not a bad snuff after all. Only thing is, one should let it dry out completely, spread out on a big plate. The older and dryer it becomes, the better the taste, smell and nicotine hit. So, if you don’t like it at first, just hide it somewhere and try it later. LONG LIVE COW DUNG SNUFF!!! Cheers

I thought sprangalang ordered some Ntsu from Wesley’s but I could be remembering wrong on who it was?

I emailed Mars to see if they were still interested in carrying Dingler snuffs.

Yes Trout, I did, you have a good memory! I did not like the NTSU too much. In fact the whole tin is still left. Dry now. I may try doing something with it. Taxi though, that’s a good one in my book. Rich raw flavor, with a creeper nic buzz. Hard to sniff though. About time to break out another one. I’ve been using the empty plastic “tin” for carrying a few snus pouches with me.

@ spranagalang: the Taxi tins are pretty good, I agree I just visited a scrapyard taking all my scrap metal with a buddy of mine. Its right near the city dump and a prison. The air smelled. Taxi was the only thing on my mind. I don’t know what it was maybe the muddy ground, maybe the dump, maybe the scrapyard. Something really smelled like Taxi there. On the upside, I did introduce my buddy to snuff. He took Toque Chocolate, twice. I offered him Toque Original too but he declined. They were the only snuffs I was carrying. He seemed very curious about it. He asked how did I ever discover snuff? “It’s a long story, I told him”

BIG D, try some peach and red mixed…awesome!!!

I just did some Taxi Menthol I just got from MrSnuff along with his other S. African snuffs. I like it, but it’s very different, and my question is, the “menthol”, has an odd cleaner type essence, which to me isn’t bad, but could this actually be the amonia I hear so much about, or is it just how it is?

tom502, I can’t tell whether it’s ammonia/amonia. What I can tell you is that Taxi Menthol is the only snuff I dumped after one pinch.

Sacrilege!

I have to admit that Taxi is the one snuff that I didn’t like at all. Remember that childhood time-telling singsong about it being “half past the monkey’s ass”? Well, I had totally forgotten about that little nonsense rhyme. That is, until I opened a tin of Taxi Red, and, out of nowhere, that rhyme just came flooding into my head. I think there’s even a time and place for the most sickeningly sweet American scotches, but I just can’t hack Taxi. No way, no how.

Well, I just picked up the Taxi Red and Taxi Green from Mr. Snuff and I like 'em both. I find the taxi green to be like a toned down version of NTSU menthol. I have tried the Taxi Spearmint before, which I got from UK snuff store. Unfortunately that tin was not near as moist as these new ones I just picked up. While the spearmint was okay, I imagine it would have been even better had it been as fresh and moist as the ones I just got.

I like the Taxis too, even the menthol, but that menthol is still a bit odd, and not like most menthols. I thought maybe it was ammonia I was smelling, but I let the wife smell it, and she said it smelled like mentholyptus. But as I think right now, the only one I’d rebuy, of the new S.Africans that just became available is the Venters. The Singletons Super Menthol is missing the super, big time, it’s very very slight in menthol.

How does the Venter’s compare with other camphor/menthol snuffs? I do enjoy GH CM and SG Zip so I was wondering if it’s worth my while getting hold of some of the Venter’s.

Well… it is unique, but that’s the grind and moisture, with is pretty coarse and high, but the scent/essence is very nice and cooling. Different than the Euro snuffs, but very pleasing, and quite strong for an SA menthol.

@Tom, Did you get both Singletons? I got both, one comes in a round green dispenser with a snuff hole similar to the Ozona, and the other is in one of those Taxi like tins. I don’t much care for the one in the Taxi-like tub, but the other one is great. Good flavor, little better grind.

what happened to the magnet??? I only tried it once but it was really awesome.

Magnet is still available at the UK snuff store, I have never tried it though.

Snuffe- yeah, I have both. The one with the rotating lid is indeed very good, good menthol, and dry medium grind. The other one is severly lacking in menthol, I stirred in some O&G, just wanting to give it some menthol cool to it.

So today, over my lunch break, I discovered the package that arrived for me in the mail, kindly set on my desk by my wife before she left the house. I excitedly ripped it open, rooting through the packaging peanuts and removing each tin and inspecting, per tradition. At the bottom, was my first can of Taxi Red. I tore the cellophane off, and pried the lid free, revealing the coarse, wet contents. With no regard for my safety, I proceeded to ram 2 giant pinches per nostril up my nose (no nic for six and a half hours before that, and a completely clean nose) The ammonia burned my sinuses, and I was overcome by the deep, earthy tobacco, with, as I’ve said elsewhere, a subtle nuance of chocolate. Then the nicotine started to flow. A smile came across my face. This is some awesome stuff. Now, in the spirit of becoming, instantly I might add, a lover of South African Tobaccos, I’ve placed an order for 2 Babaton, 2 NTSU, and one more Taxi Red (the Babaton and the NTSU were both out of stock when I was ordering the first time.) My wife is going to kill me, and I no longer care, as I’ll be dancing with the TAXI.

_I proceeded to ram 2 giant pinches per nostril up my nose (no nic for six and a half hours before that, and a completely clean nose)_You did that standing up? Good grief, man! That’s a dangerous thing to do!

I 100% LOVE IT

Xander, I was standing, and I managed to sniff some Dholakia White a few minutes later, and I still made it back to work. I was feeling pretty good though!

I really like Tasi but often wish it was less coarse. Has anyone here ground theirs to what they found to be more suitable grind?

It’s ok but not something I use regularly.  It’s a lot like snuffing Copenhagen long cut basically; great nicotine hit but makes my nose disgusting real quickly. 

Well for me it can kinda get stuck up there almost as a result of the coarseness but aside from that my nose gets along with it.

I enjoy it as it is. All flushes out pretty much instantly with that massive forward drip.

My latest tub of Taxi Red (flat, red from MS) is a lot less coarse but has an odd, repulsive (or not yet learned to love) scent where the ammonia should be. It smells like a chlorinated pool instead of horse droppings. I tried a couple pinches but my nose just closed up and I didn’t like it. I’ll probably bin the tub. Meanwhile all the NTSU black & taxi green smell like fresh, potent SA snuffs. I enjoyed Taxi Red in the past

Yeah, I was referring to the past, too. You nailed that odd scent, @ar47! By the way, have you noticed that it comes in slightly different containers now? The flat red one. I really hope they didn’t modified the recipe and that’s just an issue of old stock.

@volunge I got one a few months ago from MS that was great. This new one has a totally different grind and yes aroma and I think the tub may be more smooth beveled underside (I’d have to dig through the large bin of empties). I am of the impression that this is the new version, but hope I’m wrong. The grind on mine is closer to Toque than Taxi

That is a real shame. The new tubs seem a bit more pliable, no?