RedMan Fine cut Natural+ Prismaster= less mess

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  • ponysoprano
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    • Jul 2008
    • 562

    #1

    RedMan Fine cut Natural+ Prismaster= less mess

    So, I've been dipping when convenient[at home], upper lip of course. Grizzly wintergreen is probably my preferred, or Redman #3 longcut w.green. Mentioned in diff. post getting Redman#6 Finecut natural. Tastes kinda like a campfire might. Smoky, mesquite, salty, pretty good. Anyway it makes a hell of a mess, it's much finer than long cut but nowhere near the wet powder consitency of Swedish lös. I took the economical, poor-man's icetool, the Prismaster for a spin in the stuff. With some light digging in the can I was able to fill the tool all the way then finger-pack some in the end to tighten things up.

    It does make it easier to get a wad of the stuff up in your lip. Alas, the "pris" fell apart as soon as it hit home, but after some crafy tongue-work it stays put. I'll continue to do this until the can is empty, instead of hillbilly-ing the stuff as there is very little cleanup involved.

    Also, I bought 2 cans of Longhorn today for about $4 total. It's made by Pinkerton, like Red Man; as you know, a Swedish Match NA company. It seems like the poor man's Red man. Maybe Longhorn is all the stuff off the factory floor soaked in a sugar and nicotine enhanced solution?

    I actually like the Longhorn better than the aforementioned wood-smoke flavored RedMan. Btw? WTF is up with the American tobacco obsession with "cowboys and Indians" imagery. RedMan, LongHorn, Marlboro Man, just to mention a few. I guess they're trying to imply to youngsters, and the rest of us, that if you use tobacco you're a 'rugged individualist', not an addicted member of the conned masses.
  • Grim
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    • Jun 2008
    • 850

    #2
    I just think it has to do with a "rugged" image.

    It also implies that indians used tobacco first and because cowboys are synonomous with indians may be where you get the relation.

    Or the fact that big tobacco really started in america in the 1920s and so on may be where the two ethnic groups converged.

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    • ponysoprano
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      • Jul 2008
      • 562

      #3
      That's a damn good point Grim! I would guess too, that part of that segment of American Tobacco marketing had to do, initially with selling the Rugged American image to the entire world, not just those of us who were born or live here. Good call.

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