Nose Flour

[justintempler]

I'm doing some research and I'm going through an old Swedish book that was written back in 1897 with all kind of tidbits about the history of tobacco written by a Swede.

http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=NLcUAAAAYAAJ

I got a kick out of this little trivia....

When snus first came to Sweden back in the 1700's it was originally called "näsmjöl" which translates to nose flour.

Useless information I know, but I got a laugh out of it and thought i'd pass it along.

[Toque Snuff]

We still call the unflavoured ground tobacco "flour". It's a milling term.

[justintempler]

Yes considering how it's made that's makes perfect sense. Snus/snuff, is milled just like grains are to make flour. Then it is sifted by grain size. I think that explains why we don't see long cut snus as a normally produced product. Americans cut their tobacco. Snuff producers mill it. The Swedes juts aren't set up to make a cut product.

I imagine in the old days a lot of tobacco was ground in the same mills that ground flour. Nowadays I imagine a hammer mill is used.