Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2014 July 7

= July 7 =

Royal Cannon Golden Nuggets
What were/are Royal Cannon Golden Nuggets? They come/came in a tin approx. 2.25in x 3.5 in. x 1 in. The tin has a lid but does not have a manufacturers name but is decorated with graphics depicting a cannon with trunnions on a wooden carriage and crossed bands with an anchor. Are they English? Were they a food, candy or other product. When were they manufactured?Tcstamps88 (talk) 23:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Do you mean the tobacco tin as pictured here. There appears to be several for sale on eBay. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:46, 8 July 2014 (UTC)


 * And yes they were British. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:48, 8 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Can I clarify this, please? You're saying that the produce was pipe tobacco, right? AlexTiefling (talk) 09:06, 9 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Hard to say. The only things I could find were on auction sites and said they tobacco/cigarette tins. There was one site here that says it is a spice tin. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 00:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)


 * It seems that tobacco described as "nuggets" is prepared using the "cube cut" method rather than "flaked"; see John Patton - Gold Nugget Mixture. As to it being British, I've never been a smoker but tobacco brands used to be heavily promoted - trade names like Old Holborn, St. Bruno and Condor were well known in the 1960s and 70s, but I've never heard of "Royal Cannon" and can't imagine why we would be exporting tobacco to the USA since it's grown there in the first place. Alansplodge (talk) 20:11, 12 July 2014 (UTC)