Good Money Sweet Twist

[towhee89]

I’ve spent twenty wonderful minutes on the phone to a lady that’s worked over thirty years at R C Owen.

1. They do have a factory store—her. Stop by and she’ll sell you all the twists you want.

2. Otherwise it’s a wholesale only operation. Since the quit making Red Cap and Old Hillside about thirty years ago, they make about 11 different brands of hand twisted tobacco.

3. It’s all done by hand.

4. There are two sizes, giant and small. Giant twists are about double the price.

5. Many of their brands are the same product with different names on the package.

6. Good Money and King B are the same sweet, mild, flavored twists, different names on the package only.

7. Silver Tip is the strongest, dark fired leaf.

8. Hornet and Red Ox are both natural one sucker tobacco. Recommended.

9. Regulations keep the label as chewing tobacco. The products haven’t changed.

This is a great post. Sorry to resurrect from the dead but I wonder if one is able to order direct from them. Doubtful as it is chewing tobacco per fda guidelines. I could find 2 rc Owen twists at Ingles but now they are all gone. Sad news. That was the only place I could find the rc Owen. I did smoke a dried out mammoth cave and that is some strong stuff on par with Bold Kentucky and the like. I am a chewer with these twists usually but it is interesting to smoke them.

 

[FurCoat]

They do not - production facility only. I spend a lot of time in rural Tennessee for work and stop in lots of gas stations. It is very hard to find twist tobacco for sale - I know one store in Springfield, which is DFK central, that carries Mammoth Cave twist, but is a strong, strong local Burley.

Incidentally, most chewers appear to have switched to dip because it's slightly less messy and generally much stronger in effect. I rarely see a farmer with a plug in his maw. The few chewers seem to focus on Levi Garrett and Red Man. One I saw with twist, but it was King B, so of no interest to me as a pipe smoker.

The twists are (evidentially) still being made

If I chew, and I do at times, I perfer Cannon Ball.

 

[captainsousie]

@Briar Lee if you would be willing to send some of those twists you mention my way, I'd pay and be grateful. If not, not a worry. Drop me a PM if that's something you would do. Sounds really interesting.

 

[Briar Lee]

This is a great post. Sorry to resurrect from the dead but I wonder if one is able to order direct from them. Doubtful as it is chewing tobacco per fda guidelines. I could find 2 rc Owen twists at Ingles but now they are all gone. Sad news. That was the only place I could find the rc Owen. I did smoke a dried out mammoth cave and that is some strong stuff on par with Bold Kentucky and the like. I am a chewer with these twists usually but it is interesting to smoke them.

You can call the lady and ask, but I’ll bet they can only retail on the premises.

The taxes on tobacco are complex, and have been worked out over two hundred years.

I’ll bet you’d need a tax ID number to order, and then not less than a box of twists.

 

[Briar Lee]

@Briar Lee if you would be willing to send some of those twists you mention my way, I'd pay and be grateful. If not, not a worry. Drop me a PM if that's something you would do. Sounds really interesting.

The lady that owns the shop quit ordering them.

So my source is gone!.

Go to a local smoke shop near you, one that the owner is in there.

Ask them to order what you want.

Then buy them when they come in, or else they’ll not order more.

 

[captainsousie]

The lady that owns the shop quit ordering them.

So my source is gone!.

Go to a local smoke shop near you, one that the owner is in there.

Ask them to order what you want.

Then buy them when they come in, or else they’ll not order more.

Sadly I'm in an area with not much access to much more than the Smoker Friendly blends I go to other sources when available.

Sorry to hear of one more source disappearing.

 

[Briar Lee]

Sadly I'm in an area with not much access to much more than the Smoker Friendly blends I go to other sources when available.

Sorry to hear of one more source disappearing.

The owner of our local liquor store told me once, he didn’t have one thing in the store anybody needed.

He stayed in business providing what people wanted.

Ask the owner of a small liquor and smoke shop to order in twist.

Give them the brand.

They’ll likely do it.

But then buy the stuff,,,after it comes.

 

[pepperandjack]

Anytime someone writes of twist, I think plug, and I have a terrible jones for plug, based on an old memory by a member long-retired. Anyway, he told me the awesome compression, or any compression for that matter, undergone by tobacco destined to be plug causes it to be heated, and that heat fosters fermentation. Well, I'm all for fermentation. Tell me if I've got it right.

So this thread on arcane American twists got my attention. But unfortunately Embers says they are all a horror in the pipe, so they're out.

But lo! all is not lost, mapacho for $71.00 a pound from Grandfrather Spirit is less than half of of buying from the South American Indians through etsy dealers.

But you should beware that nicotiana rustica is some 10 times stronger than nicotiana tobacum and can cause hallucinations. But then again you may be a fan of little green men dancing on the shank! lol

 

[towhee89]

Fifty or so years ago every grocery store in Missouri carried twist tobacco, but even then it seemed a product kept in limited amounts for old codgers about my age, today.

The brands I remember were Cotton Boll, Honey Bee, and Good Money. My grandfather, born in 1880, claimed Cotton Boll tasted exactly like the old Long Green home grown his father raised.

Most old timers chewed twist, but it is smokable. Shredded Cotton Boll is a pure nicotine bomb.

Yesterday I bought a fresh (made June 8 2022) twist of Good Money Sweet Twist and shredded some in a coffee grinder.

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Frankly, Good Money is chewing and not smoking tobacco.

Any OTC burley based blend such as PA, CH, SWR, or Velvet is much more flavorful and rewarding.

Good Money isn’t bad, it’s just not all that good. It’s a basic burley taste, with a disappointingly low amount of nicotine, flavored with what I taste as molasses and licorice.

Unless you like to chew, save your money for better.

I like to chew and love these. Saw this thread googling Red Oak twist.


I have smoked dried out Mammoth Cave in a pipe but not these. I was overjoyed with finding them again at my local grocer. Tastes to me almost like Marmite. A rich unique taste of pure burley.

And I find they have a solid amount of nic. Especially compared to loose leaf.