ENUFF Snuff!

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Is the man using snuff OR did my ancestors just call it snuff? Snuff is a type of smokeless tobacco. There are several types, used in different ways, but traditionally it means Dry/European nasal snuff, which is inhaled or "snuffed" through the nose.

Chewing tobacco is a smokeless tobacco product. Chewing is one of the oldest ways of consuming tobacco leaves. Native Americans in both North and South America chewed the leaves of the plant, frequently mixed with the mineral lime.

Smokeless tobacco is prepared in three forms:

Twist
One to three high-quality leaves are braided and twisted into a rope while green, and then are cured in the same manner as other tobacco. Users cut a piece off the twist and chew it.

Plug
Is made by pressing together cured tobacco leaves in a sweet (often molasses-based) syrup. Originally this was done by hand, but since the second half of the 19th century leaves were pressed between large tin sheets.

Scrap
Is a loose leaf chewing tobacco (sometimes referred to as "chew" or "chaw"), was originally the excess of plug manufacturing. It's sweetened like plug tobacco, but sold loose in bags .

From a med 1860's article:
The chewing of tobacco was well-nigh universal. This habit had been widespread among the agricultural population of America both North and South before the war. Soldiers had found the quid a solace in the field and continued to revolve it in their mouths upon returning to their homes. Out of doors where his life was principally led the chewer spat upon his lands without offence to other men, and his homes and public buildings were supplied with spittoons. Brown and yellow parabolas were projected to right and left toward these receivers, but very often without the careful aim which made for cleanly living. Even the pews of fashionable churches were likely to contain these familiar conveniences. The large numbers of Southern men, and these were of the better class (officers in the Confederate army and planters, worth $20,000 or more, and barred from general amnesty) who presented themselves for the pardon of President Johnson, while they sat awaiting his pleasure in the ante-room at the White House, covered its floor with pools and rivulets of their spittle. An observant traveller in the South in 1865 said that in his belief seven-tenths of all persons above the age of twelve years, both male and female, used tobacco in some form. Women could be seen at the doors of their cabins in their bare feet, in their dirty one-piece cotton garments, their chairs tipped back, smoking pipes made of corn cobs into which were fitted reed stems or goose quills. Boys of eight or nine years of age and half-grown girls smoked. Women and girls "dipped" in their houses, on their porches, in the public parlors of hotels and in the streets.


Twist: Brands include Skoal.
Directions:
Keep between cheek and gum - don't chew - its long lasting flavor gives you discreet tobacco satisfaction without expectorating. When the taste is gone, the pellet is easily removed. Skoal comes in a tin and also in something called the Skoal Bandit, which is like a mini tea bag, you can get rid of all the leaves cleanly.

Plug: Days Work and Cannon ball
Comes in plugs in a case of 15 ranging from 38 to 48 dollars.

Scrap: Popular brands are Red Man, Levi Garrett, Beechnut, and Mail Pouch. Loose leaf chewing tobacco can also be dipped.
Comes in packages and range in price from 22 dollars to forty, with Redman being the most expensive and a brand called Starr being the least.

It appears to come down to if you want to put in the loose or bite off the plug. Either way, unless you are a die hard, you are going to have to spit out of the juice somewhere.

Did your ancestors spit it out the door or did they have a coffee can in the house? Did their shirt have tobacco stains? How about tell tale brown marks around their mouth? Did they have an image of a tin can marked in their pants from "carrying".

Grandpa Benhard was a user. His khaki pants had the 'mark'. He had a coffee can in the house. He would 'chew' when he played cards, reach over and down and spit in the can.

The last user I knew was a man at the nursing home. He walked around the interior of the building carrying a paper cup. He was a thin man; you could see the bump in his cheek. He must not have used CLIMAX.


VHATS DA USE OF CHEWIN' SNOOSE N SPITTIN OUT DA USE!
(What's the use of chewing snoose and spitting out the juice!)