I think that most people here know about the recent pruning of certain snus brands such as Diplomat and Nick & Johnny Lös - and the general consensus is that it's a bad thing.
And being a nosey kind of person I did a quick search on the net to see if there were any old historic brands that I'd never had a chance to try (I only first heard about snus a year ago) and came up with a couple of interesting pages:
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11273/snus.htm has a selection of pictures of tantalising names lseemingly all from the Swedish Match stable.
and http://www.tobakshistoria.com/ looks like it has the most content about all swedish tobacco products although you have to kind of half-guess the Swedish if you don't speak it but you can see plenty of great old pictures.
It looks like Swedish Match dropped loads of old classic loose snuses between the end of the nineties until 2005. I hate it when old flavours are allowed to die out because they are no longer very profitable. Did any of the old hands here ever taste any of the lost ones and what were they like? What do you think the chances of existing products like Göteborgs Prima Fint have of making it into another decade over such novelties as Nick & Johnny East White Portions?
RIP: Nick & Johnny Lös, Rallarsnus, Mörkbrunt Snus, Svenskt Exportsnus, Karlskrona, Stjärnsnus, Hawken etc.
And being a nosey kind of person I did a quick search on the net to see if there were any old historic brands that I'd never had a chance to try (I only first heard about snus a year ago) and came up with a couple of interesting pages:
http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11273/snus.htm has a selection of pictures of tantalising names lseemingly all from the Swedish Match stable.
and http://www.tobakshistoria.com/ looks like it has the most content about all swedish tobacco products although you have to kind of half-guess the Swedish if you don't speak it but you can see plenty of great old pictures.
It looks like Swedish Match dropped loads of old classic loose snuses between the end of the nineties until 2005. I hate it when old flavours are allowed to die out because they are no longer very profitable. Did any of the old hands here ever taste any of the lost ones and what were they like? What do you think the chances of existing products like Göteborgs Prima Fint have of making it into another decade over such novelties as Nick & Johnny East White Portions?
RIP: Nick & Johnny Lös, Rallarsnus, Mörkbrunt Snus, Svenskt Exportsnus, Karlskrona, Stjärnsnus, Hawken etc.
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