I’ve found store locally in the metro-Detroit area.
*one store that sells snuff
@prismaster A lot, and I mean a LOT of old people around here dip Navy or Railroad Mills. In my town, if you’re over 60 and you dip, you’re probably using dry snuff. Food Lion supermarkets are actually about the best source of snuff too. They’ve got about 15 or 20 brands on hand most of the time.
@Chris, cheers mate, never heard of it before. It sounds like a curry called Tikka Masala, that was invented by the Asian community for the British pallet. Stefan
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@snuffpub I never heard of dipping dry snuff. Interesting info, thanks.
@snuffpup Thank you for the info - i tought myself that the whole habit of using fine, dry snuff the oral way could not be that small. I mean, how could something rather “obscure” like this, prevail so long --if not a bunch of people would use it on a regular base ?
I’ve seen scotches at a convenient store in a big city. Also a pipe maker’s shop had some SG tap boxes and General snus (overpriced).
@xapken: This is where the term “dipping” came from. One would “dip” their finger or snuff brush or stick into the can, or mix a strong solution of snuff and water and dip out of that. From there one could suck on the stick or rub the gums and cheeks. I guess eventually people got lazy and just started pouring it into their lips, but the term “dipping” stayed. All of the things that we call “dip” are not really dipped. The word is largley anachronistic now. The moist snuffs that are used as “dip” are largely all based on the Scandinavian concept.
If you want to try Betel nut or Pan Masala simply go to the nearest Indian Grocery store and ask them for it. RMD is what they usually carry. Most places carry it because they’re all hooked on it lol
@Xander Thanks… that makes sense now. Interesting twist.
There’s also a gender issue with regard to dipping snuff. In pre-feminist times, and particularly in the rural American South, women who smoked tobacco were considered to be of questionable character, at best. Snuff was the only form of tobacco considered “ladylike.” So a lot of those old folks who dip American scotches are most likely women, although I’m sure some old men dip snuff, too. Despite attempts by feminist historians to set the record straight, there remain large areas of social history rendered “invisible” by gender bias. It seems snuff-dipping falls into one of those areas.
@PipenSnusnSnuff If you enjoy accounts of antiquity, here’s a link to a book from 1870. The part about tobacco starts at page 304. The format is PDF. http://books.google.com/books/download/Talks\_about\_people\_s\_stomachs.pdf?id=Hp0EAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U1bVrCT\_ONTOMFDixBnV4uln-ddgA One mentioned that I’ve never heard of is plugging. Paraphrased “a piece of a half-inch is cut from a rope of tobacco the size of a mans finger and then screwed into the nose”. I would think that would make breathing a bit difficult. *grin*
Rope tobacco was popular with sailors, but usually only used as chew, since they couldn’t smoke aboard the old wooden sailing ships. But I suppose one can get awfully creative (perhaps a little too creative) during those long months at sea. [lol]