American interested in Snus

[gopherbob]

Just stuck my newly acquired roll of kronan in the freezer. It is a good idea.


By the way, have any of you 'doctored up' any snus? When I first got my snus trial pack I quickly opened up 6 out of the 8 to try and had no idea about keeping it fresh in the fridge. That being said a couple of them started to get dusty. I put them into a small bowl and lightly misted it while shaking it around until it looked good as new. Since I'm still a snus 'noob' I'm not sure if it affected flavor. Anyone else do this?

[Zero]

that will ressurect it in a pinch, but if you ever want to test it - keep a fresh tin ready when you do and compare them. The oxygen exposure starts killing the flavour and the tobacco ferments when it's at room temperature, increasing the nitrosamine levels and making the taste go off. All things being equal, you're best to keep it cold.

The tin even tells you in quirky swedish - Kylvara Högst +8°C (Cool-to at-highest 8°C [46F]) 8)

[Craig de Tering]

Just a quick add to the opinions about Lucky Strike snus; you have the white pouches and the normal brown ones.
I tried the brown ones and they have indeed a pretty nice flavor which actually reminds of the smell of opening a new pack of cigs (unlit, dry, toasty, cigarette tobacco). A bit saltier than other portions too but it just fits.

[gopherbob]

vatten, vit and tobak are about all i can read on the cans.

[Subtilo]

Gopherbob, the words 'Kylvara, högst +8 C' is in the bottom - on the health warning/Gothiatek sticker.

[Zero]

I think by "read" he means "understand" :lol:

[Subtilo]

Yes ... just me not thinking. :roll:

Sorry ...

[gopherbob]

I can also make the é from rapé (and pokémon).[/code]

[Zero]

Yes ... just me not thinking. :roll:

Sorry ...

well, it is actually quite small type and difficult to notice if you're not looking... like playing where's wally, you had a good point

[SouthTexas]

I don't know about snus yet, but when my Copenhagen gets a little dry I cut a very small slice off an apple and stick it in the can and leave it. An orange peel works too but leaves a trace of the citrus flavor behind. I learned that from when I used to smoke pot and it got too dry. Works pretty good!

How do ya'll make those characters like the e with an apostrophe over it in pokemon. Or the 0 with a slash through it. Or the two little dots over some vowels? Do you have those keys on your keyboards? Just curious.

[SouthTexas]

Does some types of snus dry out faster than others? Skoal doesn't dry out nearly as fast as Copenhagen. You have to be careful when buying cope to make sure the stamp on can isn't more than a few weeks old, or else it's not moist. Skoal seems to take three times longer to dry out. One reason might be is Cope is sold in a can made out of cardboard and lined with wax. Skoal is sold in a plastic container like tupperwear. Skoal tastes much more artificial though so it might have something to do with chemical additives.

[Subtilo]

I don't know about snus yet, but when my Copenhagen gets a little dry I cut a very small slice off an apple and stick it in the can and leave it. An orange peel works too but leaves a trace of the citrus flavor behind. I learned that from when I used to smoke pot and it got too dry. Works pretty good!

How do ya'll make those characters like the e with an apostrophe over it in pokemon. Or the 0 with a slash through it. Or the two little dots over some vowels? Do you have those keys on your keyboards? Just curious.

A slice of potato should also do the trick - without flavouring the sweet snus.

About the strange letters ... Im on a Mac Powerbook with danish keyboard layout and therefore I can write various types of 'strange' letters. Just take a look:

Ø - standard danish vowel. Pronounced almost like the ea-sound in 'pearl'

Æ - standard danish vowel. Pronounced almost like the e-sound in 'left'

Å - standard danish vowel. Pronounced almost like the o-sound in 'home'


The Ö (swedish Ø) is typed by pressing a certain key before typing the O itself. On my danish layout its located next the the enter-button and besides the symbol of the two dots (umlaut) it carries the symbol ^

Don't know if you can use that information for anything since your keyboard layout must be very different.

[Zero]

yeah, i'm on a mac as well, but on an english layout so for me it's

opt+a -> å Å
opt+o -> ø Ø
opt+e, (vowel) -> á ó é ú í
opt+u, (vowel) -> ä ö ë ü ï

and so on

On windows you either need a localised keyboard layout or you can use alt-codes. For example, holding ALT and typing 0246 gives you ö

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/i...s/codealt.html

[gopherbob]

I make my é the difficult way. Hold ALT and press 0 2 3 3 and release ALT if you did it corréct you should havé that fancy é.

EDIT: number pad only

[naldo]

Hi, I am also interested in trying snus. I ordered a few cans from buysnus today, looking forward to receving them.

I do have a few question though.

Most of the cans I ordered are of the mini size, I chose these because I use skoal bandits right now, and they are smaller than normal skoal pouches, but is this comparable to the mini pouches of snus? I was kind of confused as to the sizing since there are 3 sizes of snus.

Also what is a white portion?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: And one more thing, do you really not have to spit when you use snus? Is that just something the snus "veterans" do ( I know a couple long term skoal users who swallow) or is it for everybody?