I’ve been snuffing Toque Bourbon for about a week now, hoovering it up happily - in rotation alongside Original, Quit, Whisky & Honey, Toast & Marmalade, Blueberry and Chocolate - and enjoying it full well. I read a comment on it yesterday on this site saying that it smelt, to one user, like a Bacon Cheeseburger and now my experience of the snuff is totally - and I fear irrevocably - transformed. Before reading the article, I would snuff it and think, ‘hmm, smoky bourbon, yum!’ Now, after merely reading those comments, I snuff it and the ONLY thing I can smell is smoky bacon flavour crisps. My experience - my actual sensory experience - of this snuff has totally changed. The power of words.
Your Lines are quiet true. I read that comment and got out my Bourbon snuff and immediately I thought that I was in a…
I hereby rescind my comment on the flavor of Toque Bourbon. It smells exactly of a glass of top notch Straight Kentucky Bourbon 
Wait, nope it’s still bacon cheeseburger.
I’m not touching my Bourbon again until I forget about this thread. Hmmm I am a mod…lol
The human mind, weird thing. I once watched a marketing experiment; the researchers took a gallon of mass made apple juice and decanted half into nice glass bottles with something like ‘ma bakers farm pressed apple juice’ and the other half into plastic bottles with just a supermarket brand on it. Every single person invited to try it said the farm brand was superior. We regularly argue whether two WoS SP’s are the same despite the company itself openly admitting they are! I have a glass peanut butter jar that I put all the dregs of snuff tins into. I would stake my entire snuff box collection that if I spun some yarn about it being made by a hermit who was once a master blender that people would queue up for a 1/4 oz!! I’m not saying I would be any different, I’m sure I wouldn’t…but has anyone here tried caviar? You can buy a small snuff tin sized can in Harrods in London for £100! It’s too hilarious!!
So true, snuffster, so true.
HB, I had exactly the same experience with Toque Toast & Marmalade. At first I tasted a bit of citrus in there and it was heavenly. Then a couple of posters mentioned a bacon taste and the next thing a knew I was tasting crisp fried, fatty bacon! And I was sitting with 35g of this stuff. So all I did was to completely forget about T&M for a long time. When I stumbled over the tin again, it was back to normal (or my mind was) and I’ve been enjoying it ever since. I have some up my nose right now, bacon has gone!!! @ Snuffster, I did that with wine many a time. Put cheap wine into an “expensive” bottle and then listen to the guys praising this exceptionally good wine!!
LOL!! You can have a lot of fun with the pretentious. I take a kind of reversed pride by saying I wouldn’t know a good wine if I drowned in it, I include snuff and every other conniseur (cant spell that!!) thing out there.
With something approaching horror I just pounced on my Toast & Marmalade but, thanks be to God, it still smells of waxy oranges. I think I’m very hysterically susceptible to associations like this; if I so much as hear someone sneeze I feel at once that I have cold symptoms. I’ve just spent a while visualising a glass of Jim Beam in front of me and then I smelled the Toque again. Bacon. Damn.
Well, bacon isn’t bad, but look at what people keep saying Taxi smells like?
Hey HumanBoeing, let me put you straight - T and M is a beautiful citrus snuff that I love and I have been taking snuff on and off since I was 14 (I’m 45 now). It smells of delicous well blended tobacco with a hint of refreshing citrus, something to savour and relax with. Enjoy my friend!!
Just had a pinch, so delicous and citrusy. I am walking through Spanish orange groves, with a light but warm mediteranian breeze in my hair…
Snuffster, have you ever noticed the slight smell of cow dung in Tom Buck?
Now, if we could only get cows to eat bacon.
Guys you see what you’ve done to poor Roderick??? Hey Roderick, you should make a bacon-flavored snuff. Then we can all find it tastes like bourbon!! EDIT: Actually now I do want a bacon snuff.
Don’t try to blend any new flavors right now, Roderick.
What have I done?!?!?!?!?
Heh I hope so. I can’t honestly think of any flavors I would like to try that aren’t already available except maybe banana, but I’m sure someone will provide a link to one.
Sam Gawith makes a banana.
see? they all exist. it’s a snuff singularity.