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Online Nasal Snuff Community Rumor Mill, Please Stop
MississippiReb
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Now, this group doesn't seem to be so given to the rumor mill as other locations online, especially not as bad as reddit for sure... But thought I'd share, because it's gonna take us all working together to protect our passion.
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Not trying to come down on anyone in particular, but I've got something stuck in my craw right about now, that I'm afraid could VERY negatively impact all of us. Don't take offense, I ain't tryin to be a dick... We just got some habits that we need to work on together as a community... Hell, I've been guilty of this myself up until the last 9 or so months, so I ain't comin from a place of highfalutin browbeatin'... Its out of of genuine concern, havin' see the impact of it and havin' been given to that habit without realizing or thinking a thing of it myself.
Let's all try to work together to protect our treasured and very endangered hobby.
Original Post
Not trying to come down on anyone in particular, but I've got something stuck in my craw right about now, that I'm afraid could VERY negatively impact all of us. Don't take offense, I ain't tryin to be a dick... We just got some habits that we need to work on together as a community... Hell, I've been guilty of this myself up until the last 9 or so months, so I ain't comin from a place of highfalutin browbeatin'... Its out of of genuine concern, havin' see the impact of it and havin' been given to that habit without realizing or thinking a thing of it myself.
Let's all try to work together to protect our treasured and very endangered hobby.
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Repetitious rumours about the discontinuation or GH even going out of a business might get on nerves, sure (as might do the GH modus operandi), but they are only re-spiking interest in their poducts (quoting PiperAtTheGates, "blends do seem to gain a kind of boost to their status when they disappear from the shelves") and even trigger FOMO panic buys, which is definitely not a bad thing for a retailer and the producer. So, it's quite a routine. And pretty much always a learning experience for newbies. Should be regarded as a normal Q/A sort of thing.
Initially it's the same leaf, but pipe tobacco and snuff are produced from different parts of leaf. Finest grade lamina (the most flavourful and rich in nicotine part of leaf) is turned to pipe tobacco; leftovers - midrib (central vein, stem), smalls (scraps, small pieces / crumbs of leaves broken during handling) and lower grade leaves - are used for snuff. Then it's different processing of tobacco. Grinding, alkalizing and maturing ("fermentation") dramatically changes the organoleptic properties of tobacco. Sure, one still can recognize fired, Virginia or Burley-dominated bases, but snuff processing gives those tobaccos new qualities, which make them substantially different from the same tobaccos in pipe baccy.
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