How do you use "Piccanell tobacco bits"?
One small 7gr. pack of (plain) Piccanell tobacco bits was added, free of charge, to a recent snus delivery from The Northerner.
(Now don't rush away to make an order.)
This product I had never seen before, but the Northerner web site says "tobacco bits" are used the same way as snus.
The packet label shows that it is manufactured by Swedish Match.
The only clue I can find here is one of Starwing's posts in Nov2006 that mentions "Oliver Twist's so-called Chewing Tobacco Bits".
I guess there are various types of chewing tobacco known in USA, but I am in England, where no shops sell chewing tobacco so this
product is a bit of a mystery. Are Swedish "bits" the same as American "bits"?
Can't wait any longer - there's only one way to start - let's open the packet and give it a try ....
The "bits" are little dry hard cylinders of rolled up tobacco, each "bit" is about 12mm in length and 5mm diameter.
I tried one, then two, under my top lip - a bit dry and scratchy, with a clean savory tobacco flavour. Not much nicotine though.
After a few more tries I found that after a few minutes under the lip the tobacco softens and the "bit" can be unrolled as
a ribon or strip of tobacco leaf about 60mm long, with some smaller pieces of leaf and rib in the centre of the roll.
Spreading the unrolled strips out under your lip is very effective, but is rather like playing with cooked spinach - not that easy.
Now I have tried using just one "bit" at a time, and I give the "bit" a short chew to break it up after it has had time to soften a little, and then push it back up under my lip with the tip of my tongue.
The partly chewed pieces clump together very easily and sit under my lip just like a pinch of loose snus, except these pieces of shredded tobacco leaf don't creep or ooze. This is as convenient as conventional pouch snus, but with all the taste and sensation of normal loose snus. Great!
The price of a packet of Piccanell is quite low but one pack holds only 7 gramme so this looks rather expensive, weight for weight, compared to traditional snus. But then again, the product is very dry and light.
When put into the mouth the small and light "tobacco bit" soaks up saliva and swells.
The tobacco "bit" seems to last longer than normal snus, even when lightly chewed.
So overall I don't know which is the most expensive. The tobacco bits should be a bit more costly to make, because they
are neatly cut from the original whole tobacco leaf. Perhaps the leftovers then get ground up to make normal snus?
What I do know is that I like this product. I will certainly order some more.
One small 7gr. pack of (plain) Piccanell tobacco bits was added, free of charge, to a recent snus delivery from The Northerner.
(Now don't rush away to make an order.)
This product I had never seen before, but the Northerner web site says "tobacco bits" are used the same way as snus.
The packet label shows that it is manufactured by Swedish Match.
The only clue I can find here is one of Starwing's posts in Nov2006 that mentions "Oliver Twist's so-called Chewing Tobacco Bits".
I guess there are various types of chewing tobacco known in USA, but I am in England, where no shops sell chewing tobacco so this
product is a bit of a mystery. Are Swedish "bits" the same as American "bits"?
Can't wait any longer - there's only one way to start - let's open the packet and give it a try ....
The "bits" are little dry hard cylinders of rolled up tobacco, each "bit" is about 12mm in length and 5mm diameter.
I tried one, then two, under my top lip - a bit dry and scratchy, with a clean savory tobacco flavour. Not much nicotine though.
After a few more tries I found that after a few minutes under the lip the tobacco softens and the "bit" can be unrolled as
a ribon or strip of tobacco leaf about 60mm long, with some smaller pieces of leaf and rib in the centre of the roll.
Spreading the unrolled strips out under your lip is very effective, but is rather like playing with cooked spinach - not that easy.
Now I have tried using just one "bit" at a time, and I give the "bit" a short chew to break it up after it has had time to soften a little, and then push it back up under my lip with the tip of my tongue.
The partly chewed pieces clump together very easily and sit under my lip just like a pinch of loose snus, except these pieces of shredded tobacco leaf don't creep or ooze. This is as convenient as conventional pouch snus, but with all the taste and sensation of normal loose snus. Great!
The price of a packet of Piccanell is quite low but one pack holds only 7 gramme so this looks rather expensive, weight for weight, compared to traditional snus. But then again, the product is very dry and light.
When put into the mouth the small and light "tobacco bit" soaks up saliva and swells.
The tobacco "bit" seems to last longer than normal snus, even when lightly chewed.
So overall I don't know which is the most expensive. The tobacco bits should be a bit more costly to make, because they
are neatly cut from the original whole tobacco leaf. Perhaps the leftovers then get ground up to make normal snus?
What I do know is that I like this product. I will certainly order some more.
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