Hello all,
I thought we ought to re-assess our current top toasts based upon our current experience. I’ll start
Old Mill Olde English Toast 2014
SWS Lundy Foot
F&T HDT
SWS Havana Toast
Old Mill Ivory Toast
Honorable mentions; WOS Irish High Toast #22 and Toque Natural Toast
Coming tomorrow on order is; Old Mill Pure Virginia Toast 2015 and Butternut Toast so I’m sure my list may be revised soon.
@1holegrouper, I second this list!
Love any thread about toast! Since I took the poll on this from the old site taste have changed a bit, with a new addition coming in since then to take my top spot. SWS Havannah Toast Toque Natural Toast GH Irish D SWS Lundy Foot F&T High Dry Toast
I have yet to try the GH Irish D. Will add a tin of it on my next Mr. Snuff order
F&T HDT
F&T HDT
F&T HDT
F&T HDT
F&T HDT
@basement. I see that you like variety :)>-
You can’t improve on perfection ! B-)
From a Toast Noob:
OM PVT
OM Melba Toast
F&T HDT
OM Butternut Toast - not very toasty though.
Toque Almond Toast
@1holegrouper, highly recommend avoiding the tap box. My first experience with Irish D was from the tap box and wouldn’t have made it anywhere near a top five list at that time. Tried it again on a whim and went with the 25g and is now one of the favorites.
In no particular order:
Old Mill Olde English Toast (Balkan)
Old Mill Ivory Toast
WoS Irish High Dry Toast no. 20
WoS Irish High Toast no. 22
F&T HDT
Toast is my favourite style of snuff. My absolute favourite toast is F&T’s HDT. Although they’re oft compared, I don’t think WoS IHT22 comes anywhere near HDT. HDT for me reminds me of my mother baking oatcakes on a Saturday morning; that creamy buttery oatey wholesome goodness. A couple of good pinches up each nostril and my whole nose goes numb, something I’ve not experienced with any other snuff. IHT22 ain’t a bad snuff, to me it has more of a caramelized sugar scent, but lacking the creamy butteriness .
GH’s Irish D Light ain’t bad either, but has to me a scent reminiscent of a 3 day old bucket of urine. I don’t get on with Toques scented toasts, I find the flavour somewhat artificial, though the natural toast is fair enough.
I can’t really give a top 5 toasts. All I know is that F&T’s HDT is number 1 and everything else comes second to it.
IHT #22 a very high first Old Mill Ivory Toast Old Mill Perfecto SWS Lundy Foot Old Mill Pumpernickel Toast I wouldn’t care to go on without #22 for me HDT doesn’t compete. Although continuing my existence without white elephant would be miserable as well cone to think of it. Not sure if WE is considered a toast or just purely a white snuff. If it’s a toast than it would bump into first place.
Not all toast snuffs are of the high dry variety, although that has been the accepted definition these last 300 years. These beautiful and wonderful creations are a thing of beauty. The pinnacle, in my humble opinion is F&T High Dry Toast. They do carry an aura of difficulty, and rightly so. High toasts are uber fine, extremely dry and have a very steep learning curve attached to their eventual enjoyment.
I made it a bit of mission to remove that fear factor from the toast genre when I got this thing going. I wanted to introduce the wonders of toasted tobacco snuff without the steep learning curve, pain, torture and agony that I experienced on my way to the summit of snuff enjoyment. Bottom line; my toast snuffs are certainly toasted, but are approachable and user friendly as the user works his/her way through the variations.
I think I will name the next Butternut just that; Butternut Snuff, toasted to a fare thee well and liberally dressed with all sorts of yummy. Just not categorized as a toast snuff.
I’m off to do some serious damage to a tin of HDT that Chloe the Maine Coon Guard Kitty has been batting about the premises as it was a wee rodent in desperate need of torture and ingestion. As much as I love PVT and Ivory Toast, which disappear at an alarming rate around here, HDT has a special place in my nostrils that nothing else can come close to replacing.
Seems like I’m not going to be making a radical contrarian statement if I nominate HDT, but I really do like it better even that Havana Toast or Lundy Foot. No, not like better, but I want to use it more often.
Thanks for your thoughts and especially for your wonderful snuffs! They are all so easy to take and are so good that I think they are redefining what good snuff is. My absolute favorite so far is Olde English Toast. As soon as your new one is ready I plan on buying a couple of large jars of it. I just hope that my current stash doesn’t run out before then.
Also, I like HDT and think it is a wonderful flavor. I have some of it nearly every day. However, I don’t seem to be as enamored with it as so many others are. Perhaps that will change as I know tastes change and modify through time and experience.
My absolute favorite snuff seems to currently be a tie between SWS Lundy Foot and OM Olde English Toast. Those are the only snuffs I have that I find myself worrying if the manufacturers might stop making them or laws might prevent me from getting them (Lundy Foot). I would make a trip to the UK just to replenish my supplies if I had to for that stuff! LOL
@1holegrouper , hehe. Well, never take the supply of artisan snuff producers, in particular, for granted! If you like Lundy Foot, start stockpiling! The Olde English, too!
New order of my preference based on a shipment from Old Mill earlier this week:
Old Mill Olde English Toast 2014
SWS Lundy Foot
Old Mill Pure Virginia Toast 2015
4) Old Mill Butternut Toast 2015
5) SWS Havana Toast
The PVT is really a good toast and might go above my beloved Lundy Foot someday. HDT is a close competitor to Havana Toast but since Havana Toast is MUCH easier to take it is still in my personal top 5. Flavor can sometimes be surpassed by texture in making an overall evaluation I have found.