Hi Smithenhals.
I'm sure it's a good Lodge.
I wasn't trying to cause offence, I was just trying to explain how very strange this sounds from an English perspective. For some reason, chewing baccy has never caught on over here (even though many of us smoke), and tobacco spit is emphatically not a part of life here - it'd be widely regarded as highly offensive, and putting a spittoon in a Lodge would seem to us almost as inappropriate as putting a urinal in a Lodge. I assume chewing baccy is probably obtainable somewhere in England for those who really want it, but to illustrate how rare it is here, I'll mention that I've never seen it in my life. Amazing how different some little details of life can be, eh?
T & F,
Huw