buying snus on the street, in Stockholm

[littlesilverboxfromwales]

A friend of my wifes has kindly agreed to bring me back 20 boxes of snus from here trip to Stockholm.
My question is, what kind of place do I advise her to go to, to get it?
Do they have tobacconists over there?
cheers M

[Craig de Tering]

Just give him a piece of paper with "Var kan jäg köpa billigare snus i närheten?" written on it so he can show it to any person with a fat lip he stubles upon.

I'm not swedish but this is correct enough so that any fool will understand it.
It says litterally "Where can I buy cheap snus in [the] neighbourhood/vecinity".

By the way... TWENTY BOXES???? LOL! Holy ****. Or do you mean rolls or cans/tins? A box should have around 200 cans in it!
Just make sure he buys 'em just before coming back. Maybe duty-free??

[Zero]

No duty-free within europe, but as for sweden, I think just about anywhere will have snus. As long as you don't buy it at the airport or in the snus vending machines in the pub it should be quite cheap. Practically any shop will have a snus fridge and I think you can get rolls at most grocers. Prices should be pretty consistent - like buying fags here, they're basically the same price just about anywhere.

[Craig de Tering]

Oh OK. I thought the UK wasn't THAT much "EU" (like with the rebates I mentioned earlier) so that duty-free would still be applicable to trips to the mainland.

[littlesilverboxfromwales]

Thanks for the advice gents.
She is only over there for a day or two so I should be ok with the freshness, most of it will go straight in the freezer anyway.
She's a bright well travelled lady, so I think she'll find an outlet.
I don't mind paying full Swedish price, it's still less than £3 a can for most makes of snus. I did mean tins :lol: I would be happy if she brought back 20 boxes though 8) I might have to offload some here though :shock: The reason I said boxes was that I had a Norweigen girlfriend 10 or so years ago, and noticed they would call cans of drink or food a word that sounded very much like boxes, and the two languages have a lot of common words.

[Craig de Tering]

German also has that (boxen/boksen for tins).

[edit]
Woops! That's wrong. Germans call a tin (UK) or a can (US) Dose/Dosen (pl.) DOUGH-SUH
I was confused because in Dutch a "Doos" (same pronunciation) really is a box (cardboard).
In contrast, Dutch has "blik", from German "blech" (=tin (Sn) or sheet metal).

[littlesilverboxfromwales]

Ah!, they are all Tutonic languages, I think?

[Craig de Tering]

To a certain degree.
Dutch used to be split up in three or four distinct dialects of german (way back in the 14th century and earlier).
Most people only spoke and couldn't write. The few that could write wrote as their particular flavor of Dutch sounded. So they all differed pretty much from each other on paper.
It wasn't until more and more people started to write (and the Dutch-speaking boroughs stopped warring and killing each other) that their scholars got together and decided upon a standard spelling.

[littlesilverboxfromwales]

Dutch killing each other :shock: I thought the Dutch were the most chilled out people on the planet? :wink:

[Craig de Tering]

LOL! Who told you that ugly lie?
How else could the dutch become the most powerful sea-faring country in the 17th century?
(If my recollection of history and dates serves me right, that is)
Blood thirsty bastards they were hahaha! Lawful pirates.

[littlesilverboxfromwales]

I have met a few people from Holland and they were great, they were all able to out drink me, even the girls! :shock: and I'm Welsh!!!! :shock: , but they were fab people.
Well thats Pirates for you. :wink:

[Coffey]

My grandpa came from the Netherlands and spoke alot of dutch around me. In college I took 2 years of german and one of the main differences that I noticed between the two is the hard "-k" sound in dutch words is replaced by the softer "-ch" sound in german. I have no idea why though.

[littlesilverboxfromwales]

Talking of BIG beer drinkers, the Germans consume the most per person in the world, maybe they are too drunk to say those hard K's :wink:

[Zero]

LOL! Who told you that ugly lie?
How else could the dutch become the most powerful sea-faring country in the 17th century?
(If my recollection of history and dates serves me right, that is)
Blood thirsty bastards they were hahaha! Lawful pirates.

Living that close to the nordic countries you almost had to be I imagine! One look at menacing Viking ship and I'd be toughening up my act in a hurry. Valhalla can wait, lol :lol:

[Zero]

My grandpa came from the Netherlands and spoke alot of dutch around me. In college I took 2 years of german and one of the main differences that I noticed between the two is the hard "-k" sound in dutch words is replaced by the softer "-ch" sound in german. I have no idea why though.

Ah, well, you can read all about it :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Ge...onsonant_shift

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