I have an odd question for the group; Back in snuff’s heyday, if one took out his snuffbox for a pinch, it was considered good manners to offer to pass it around to the group. During my frequent daydreams about a Snuffhouse meet-up, I picture this happening. Standing around, passing the snuffbox around, trying everyone’s favorites. So here is my question. I come from a generation that grew up drinking from the garden hose, free from worry about what may have crawled into it overnight. Therefore amongst friends and Snuffhouse members it would never occur to me to worry about all the fingers that had been in that box before mine. In today’s world, is that thought just too grotesque to consider? Is this scene only ever going to happen in my head? Please discuss…

thats where spoons and tap boxes come in i sympathise, i have the same dream as you. i wouldnt consider actually putting my fingers in someones snuffbox without confirmation from them, even though i keep my hands super clean for my own snuff. make sure you use tapboxes or atleast a spoon for meets.

Pinching is unsanitary ,you put your fingers up to your nostrils. I only pinch a few snuff anyhow. No sir I don’t want to partake. It be like kissing a woman right after her dog kissed her. And I know what that dog been up to. I can only imagine where fingers had been. :-&

wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.

@Basement_Shamen; Only if you’re double dipping Thanks for answering. It’s human nature to think “most folks” think the way we do. I’m old enough to know better though, so I figured I’d ask…

I try to worry little about germs. I would gladly take pinches from any box. I believe if you stray away from germs too much your immune system has nothing to do but, rust.

I have two younger cousins that get sick any time they interact with people and, their house was bleached clean since they were little so I can only assume your immune system needs something to practice on or, your gonna get sick every time you shake some ones hand.

I feel the same way, but I don’t think less of anyone that’s more careful.

I used to play in the mud as a kid so I wouldn’t give a shit…more germs make you more immune

I figure that in such an environment, say, with a large house-snuffbox that gets passed around, those who chose to abstain for whatever reason (scent, germs, don’t take snuff) would simply pass it on to the next fellow (or lady). Me, wouldn’t bother me in the slightest, as said above. For numerous reasons, one of the biggest being in the regular line military for almost ten years. You get over body issues and general germ issues rather quickly that way… Except for anything that got close to Desjardins. That guy was a pig… I like the imagery as well. Isn’t there a word in some language for nostalgia for something you’ve never been a part of? It’s like that for me and the '20s. And things like this.

I ve imagined that kind of meeting as well. I m totally in for that

disposable popsicle sticks or wooden coffee stirrers would be provided if I were hosting one. To use as spoons I don’t like getting sick, I have a high immune system but when someone has a flu created by big pharma, I don’t want it. I avoid it like the plague.

I have no issue with select friends dipping into my snuffbox. I get together with a few of them a couple times a year and we share snuff and snus( portion, not lös) with that group I have no issues. With a SnuffHouse meet-up…I don’t know for sure but I doubt it would even cross my mind. It would bother me much more knowing that by the time the box made it’s way through this bunch I’d get back an empty box. :))

I wouldn’t have a problem with sharing. It’s the box, rather than the snuff, that would present most danger, I think.

Wouldn’t bother me, but I’d bring my spoon for courtesy’s sake, were I sampling other’s snuff.

I prefer spoons anyway. But I’d happily take a pinch out of someone’s box if they offered it, if I didn’t have my spoon handy. It’s usually in my right hand pocket anyway, so it’s a bit of a non-issue.

It wouldn’t bother me either - in fact it hadn’t really crossed my mind. If we ever do have a Yorkshire gathering I will remember to bring a spoon just in case!

If there’s a complimentary bowl of peanuts on the bar down at the local, after a pint or three I dive into the proferred sustenance like a weasel down a drainpipe. I seem to remember a spurious report of a typical bar snack sample containing 28 assorted traces of urine (tranferred via the fingers, one might hope). Personally speaking, I’ll take the snuff any day of the week.

In the past, such things didn´t matter. Look at the party right at the end of this video. By the way, the shop shown in the video was Fribourg & Treyer´s one (34 Haymarket, London). Wish we could be there…

I dive into the proferred sustenance like a weasel down a drainpipe.

neat analogy, I’m going to have to use that one!

Clean fingers only please…then take as much as you want.

Wouldn’t bother me in the slightest. We developed immunities for a reason, it’s good to keep the old system up to date anyway.

Spoon

In the past, such things didn´t matter. Look at the party right at the end of this video. By the way, the shop shown in the video was Fribourg & Treyer´s one (34 Haymarket, London). Wish we could be there…

Snuff being sold by weight. I thought it is possible only in heaven.

Oh my gods, that video is awesome. The cheesy sixties documentary music alone sends me back to my grade school years watching those educational videos. And agreed on that tobacconist’s shop. If I had one like that, with that variety of tobaccos (including bulk snuff!), I don’t think I’d ever leave. They’d offer me a job, just to get me to leave once in a while…

In the past, such things didn´t matter. Look at the party right at the end of this video. By the way, the shop shown in the video was Fribourg & Treyer´s one (34 Haymarket, London). Wish we could be there…

Great video! Thank you.

why worry? I let strangers pinch my snuff. I’ve kissed strange woman before so why become up tight now?

I used to play in the mud as a kid …

I still do

why worry? I let strangers pinch my snuff. I’ve kissed strange woman before so why become up tight now?

@Bob, when it comes to these hygiene issues, I’ve always noticed that it always seems to go out the window when it comes to that kind of interaction. The same guy who goes eeeewww, yuck about the thought of a bit of human saliva in his snuff box might well be trying to stick his tongue down the throat of a woman he’s just met. I don’t get it.

So do all you people that won’t let others put their fingers in your snuffboxes pick up money with rubber gloves and haz-mat suits? Do you have any idea how dirty and disgusting money is, your worried about where one persons hands have been well countless hands have been all over that money in your pocket. Honestly what’s the worst that can happen? Are you guys scared you’ll get nose herpes or some shit because someone put their fingers in your snuffbox?

Do you also pull out a biohazard bag, medical gloves and a pair of tweezers when you pay for something at the store?

… Are you guys scared you’ll get nose herpes … because someone put their fingers in your snuffbox?

Yes I am. Letting someone pinch from your snuff box, might as well let them pick your nose for you too!

Hey, if she’s cute…

snuff has intense antiseptic qualities.

So you have germaphobic tendencies because… your grandma ate dirt and lived to be over 90? I seem to be missing your point here

I don’t think you know what a peck is, the phrase “you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die” is another way of saying a little dirt isn’t going to hurt you, maybe you should think a little harder about what was going through your head when you attempted to use this to defend your germaphobia

Just in case you were wondering… From Wikipedia: A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although it is not frequently used in the present day, produce such as apples are still commonly sold by the peck. In other words, quite a lot…

Gentlemen I just asked because I was curious. Some say yay and some say nay. I don’t see a reason to start anything over it.

Spoon

@lunecat sorry my bad, I just looked up that phrase on google and its nonsense, I thought you were saying something very different