Mid 80’s in the highschool lunchroom one day we laid out giant lines of Tube Rose across the table and had a contest to see who could take the most in a single snort…not the greatest of ideas but was my first ever.
O&G. A friend brought me over a tin from England. Though nice, the menthol felt like sacrilege and I quickly found one of the few places in Toronto that carries McC’s SP. Eventually I was ordering from Wilsons (Sharrow). But I still keep a tin of O&G about and take a daily pinch.
@mikemoose TB was one of them but I think my VERY first was SG Raspberry to be honest- however that was from a sneeze box so I consider TB to be my first REAL experience
About 1971. I got a Rumneys, a Hedges and a Top Mill No 1 and tried each plus one in a silver coloured plastic tin that must have been very space age for the time. I was seven.
Come to think of it: can any of the ‘old masters’ on the site remember a mentholated snuff that came in a metalised, silver coloured, plastic container the size of a small, round WoS tin?
It was very out of place with the rest - metalic/silver plastic was like something from Mars compared to dear old Doctor Rumney with his eyes, behind which was playing a mental soundtrack along the lines of ‘I will kill and dismember you’, and had been playing, soothingly as long as he had lived?