{"id":225,"date":"2020-05-19T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2020-05-20T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:36:09","slug":"nick-johnny-red-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/19\/nick-johnny-red-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick &#038; Johnny Red Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just the American in me, but when I see something advertised as &#8220;red hot&#8221;, I immediately think that it&#8217;s either something spicy, like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store.bettermade.com\" target=\"_blank\">Better Made RED HOT! chips<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i5.walmartimages.com\/asr\/abbe0585-f169-4997-9ef9-25fa6b6809a8_1.3ae6a6af8bb6e0e531f50263b623761a.jpeg?odnWidth=612&amp;odnHeight=612&amp;odnBg=ffffff\" alt=\"Better Made Bm Red Hot Bbq Lunch Pack - Walmart.com - Walmart.com\"\/><figcaption>A Detroit treasure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, Red Hots cinnamon candy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81GHXfqxk%2BL._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon.com : Red Hots Cinnamon Candy, 6 Ounce Theatre Box, Pack of ...\"\/><figcaption>I don&#8217;t really love them, but they&#8217;re not bad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Red Hot\" width=\"864\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PaXWzyMRjx0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>And maybe&#8230; just maybe&#8230; the song<em><strong> Red Hot <\/strong><\/em>by Debbie Gibson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Any of those would have been okay with me. But Nick &amp; Johnny had other ideas. What those ideas were is a mystery to me. &#8220;This doesn&#8217;t taste very good, but at least it burns your gums!&#8221; quite possibly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the first opening, I was expecting to get hit with a wave of cinnamon but barely detected any. Maybe if someone took one of those cinnamon-flavored toothpicks, hid them in one of Grandpa&#8217;s old shoes a few years back, and as you&#8217;re going through his things after the funeral, you notice it fall the the floor before you add to the &#8220;DONATIONS&#8221; box &#8212; and for some reason, you decide to put it back in the shoe and sniff it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My friends, this is not good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw this described as being like Red Hots candy on SnusCentral. SnusMe describes it as &#8220;&#8230;clear taste of cinnamon and clove with hints of bitter orange and chili&#8221;. Wrong, and wrong. Let&#8217;s see what <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swedishmatch.ch\/en\/buy-snus\/nick-and-johnny\/nick-johnny-red-hot-portion-extra-strong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swedish Match<\/a> has to say about this abomination&#8230; looks like what SnusMe says: &#8220;<em>heavy and spicy tobacco taste with distinct notes of cinnamon and clove, along with hints of bitter orange and chilli. A full sized pouch that is moist on the surface for a quick and strong flavour release.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the first try, it was just tobacco and chili pepper. No sweetness at all. Tobacco with a touch of capsaicin, and a gentle dash of salt. Yuck. I set it aside for a few days and tried again. This time, all I really got was a boring original portion that burned my gum a little. Several minutes in, I could find an echo of cinnamon, and eventually got what I wouldn&#8217;t personally describe as bitter orange but &#8220;vaguely citrus&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drip is a little scratchy and generally tastes bad. Slightly more than a white portion. Much less than a regular General portion. The nicotine hit is pretty &#8220;meh&#8221; for extra-strong.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always feel a bit defeated when my conclusion is to throw away a can that&#8217;s only missing a couple of portions, but this is probably best described as &#8220;inoffensive, but not worth the time&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just the American in me, but when I see something advertised as &#8220;red hot&#8221;, I immediately think that it&#8217;s either something spicy, like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"yes","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,67,65,28,3,66,68],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snus","tag-brown","tag-hot","tag-johnny","tag-nick","tag-nick-and-johnny","tag-red","tag-red-hot"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":true,"span_bottom":"<div class='yasr-small-block-bold'><span class='yasr-visitor-votes-must-sign-in'>You have already voted for this article<\/span><\/div>"},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snusnotes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}