Oliver Twists

[Froofather]

What are Oliver Twists? I have heard of them but no one has ever been able to tell me. Is it just twisted tobacco??

[sirloot]

sweetened braided tobacco leaves kinda like a plug .. heard they weren't too good .. ive never personally tried them tho

[Froofather]

Oh. Well ok. Kinda sounds like braided chew. lol. Thanks for the answer.

[Monkey]

Hi Froo! Welcome to snuson.

They are tiny hard little bits of tobacco. They are a twist style but really not that sweet.

Tasty...but almost not worth the money.

[Froofather]

Thanks monkey! And i doubt i will be trying them. Lol. Sound kinda like Rabbit pellets.

[devilock76]

Didn't like them, and not much nic from them, oh and expensive for what they are.

Ken

[dpete]

I rather liked the Oliver Twist Senior but I believe it's been discontinued. Straight tobacco taste but really little nic. Was a change of pace from smoking for me several years ago but snus is better than either.

[WickedKitchen]

I like 'em. Well, I am not fond of the Oliver Twist brand but I do like the Picanell brand. I use two or three pieces at once and don't spit. It's very stealthy but I tend to only use it when in an outdoorsy setting for some reason. Maybe 'cos toward the end I start to chew them and then I spit. but I do that 'cos I'm outside. They're good to at least try once.

[TommyGunBC]

I picked up a tin of these little rat turds a month back and quite enjoy them every so often nice sweet tobacco flavor and albeit the nic hit isn't anything special they do in a pinch

[muddyfunkstar]

I tried some a while back, before I started using snus. Tiny little pieces of twist tobacco, you pop one between your cheek and gum, and can chew it a little to get more flavour/nic.

They're alright, but I've never seen the need to use them again since snus.

[heders]

I've tried a sample pack of Oliver Twist Alaskan Mint (or something). It was alright, but not much of a nicotine hit. I think it's 2 mg/pastille, which is pretty little compared to snus. Although it tastes pretty decent.

[pinklungs]

The things are absolutely delicious. No, they don't pack a ton of nic but I've found that they can keep a nice little buzz going in between having a portion/prilla. They are made from twisted whole leaf tobacco.......I like that. Not pulverized, powdered leaf....not that there's anything wrong with that! Try 'double-barrelling' them.....with two in, the nic hit works for me.
Cheers.

[Ansel]

I had an email back from the manufacturer and they are made from air-cured tobacco apparently though not sure if pasteurised... the eucalyptus one sounds right up my street though i don't know what the TSNA count for these things are.

[Mawdryn]

Seems like the TSNA levels are a little higher than I snus (saw it somewhere on one of those websites), but I think they tasted pretty good. I needed 3-4 of them at once to feel anything, though...

Never saw any need for them after I found snus. If you're in a spot though, it seems like most discount tobacco stores have the stuff.

[Reynard]

I use Oliver Twists when I need to be more discrete at work, I love the royal and tropical flavours. A much richer and sweeter taste then liquorice or anis snus. I don't use Oliver twist original, as I believe it is a fire-cured tobacco, with more tsna count. I wouldn't worry about tsnas from the others though, from what I can gather they are on the same level or less than Swedish snus.

Here are two reports on tsna levels, showing Oliver twist vs snus:

Tobacco Research Fund
BAT R&D