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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 7, 2023 0:00:46 GMT -5
 Other than McClelland, what was one of the first tobaccos to go missing in your life, and leave you wanting? Oldtimers might remember the House of Winsor tobaccos, or even the fine old tins of the sixties and before, but for me... A black pouch with a bold clipper-ship, on blue waves, and above that in large red lettering, Skandinavik, and I think it may have sed full aromatic, or just aromatic. Back in late 79 or early 80 I picked up a pouch at the local drugstore, and it was like a new ,old friend from the first puff; I couldn.t put it down. It was a light brown mixture, with the flavor and aroma of fresh baked sweets, but very mild and welcoming...I'd only smoked heavy black aros up to that point, and not many of them...After a few days my supply grew thin, and I ran across the street to the drugstore, and found only an empty slot. GONE! For weeks I popped in in out of that store to look for it, and even ask them to reorder...no luck. Years later, when the internet came along, I sent an e-mail about it to the company, and learned it was discontinued...a fore-shadowing of things to come.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 7, 2023 0:22:30 GMT -5
Edgeworth high grade slices.
Picked up a tin at a gun auction with a bunch of cigar cutters really cheap… that was great tobacco, and I knew it was never to be again.
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Post by urbino on Dec 7, 2023 0:41:40 GMT -5
Other than McClelland, what was one of the first tobaccos to go missing in your life, and leave you wanting? Oldtimers might remember the House of Winsor tobaccos, or even the fine old tins of the sixties and before, but for me... A black pouch with a bold clipper-ship, on blue waves, and above that in large red lettering, Skandinavik, and I think it may have sed full aromatic, or just aromatic. Back in late 79 or early 80 I picked up a pouch at the local drugstore, and it was like a new ,old friend from the first puff; I couldn.t put it down. It was a light brown mixture, with the flavor and aroma of fresh baked sweets, but very mild and welcoming...I'd only smoked heavy black aros up to that point, and not many of them...After a few days my supply grew thin, and I ran across the street to the drugstore, and found only an empty slot. GONE! For weeks I popped in in out of that store to look for it, and even ask them to reorder...no luck. Years later, when the internet came along, I sent an e-mail about it to the company, and learned it was discontinued...a fore-shadowing of things to come. Ships passing in the night, sounds like. |
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Post by coalsmoke on Dec 7, 2023 7:35:31 GMT -5
The only one that I know of is the McC.
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Post by Darin on Dec 7, 2023 8:59:00 GMT -5
Daughters and Ryan
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 7, 2023 10:39:10 GMT -5
Well, you ruled out the only worth mentioning.
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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 7, 2023 11:02:32 GMT -5
Well, you ruled out the only worth mentioning. I knew if I included McClelland the list would be never ending...I'm looking for some stories of Blue Boar, or Player's Navy Cut, and such. The McClelland wounds are still to fresh  |
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Post by username on Dec 7, 2023 11:16:08 GMT -5
Murray's Era Dunhills, Irish condor are the two that I have had that come to mind.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 7, 2023 11:21:53 GMT -5
Motzek Strang.
There are some blends today that they changed the recipe from years gone by… Jiminks will tell you all about Bell’s Three Nuns.
There are a few others that old timers can recall.
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Post by Silver on Dec 7, 2023 11:29:37 GMT -5
The Elephant & Castle blends that were made by McConnell.
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Post by urbino on Dec 7, 2023 16:53:41 GMT -5
It's not from long ago, but the old Carter Hall.
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Post by chasingembers on Dec 7, 2023 20:46:31 GMT -5
Raven's Wing, Aleister, and Mephisto in the early 2000s. I was already putting up tobacco for future use but those blends going away is what started my cellaring.
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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 7, 2023 22:55:57 GMT -5
It's not from long ago, but the old Carter Hall. I have an open pouch right now, a gift from one of the wife's girl friends, who remembered seeing the label at my house. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 7, 2023 23:09:24 GMT -5
It's not from long ago, but the old Carter Hall. I have an open pouch right now, a gift from one of the wife's girl friends, who remembered seeing the label at my house. That's the kind of wife's girl friend a man needs. |
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Post by lizardonarock on Dec 9, 2023 0:29:22 GMT -5
I miss Condor the older good stuff.
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Post by isett2860 on Dec 9, 2023 16:12:14 GMT -5
I’ve only been here since late 2017.
But the one that is now gone for me.
Drew Estate Meat Pie
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Post by daveinlax on Dec 9, 2023 16:33:43 GMT -5
I’ve only been here since late 2017. But the one that is now gone for me. Drew Estate Meat Pie. Meat Pipe is Balkan Sasieni/Ballkan Supreme.  |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Dec 9, 2023 19:59:16 GMT -5
Not a blend but a varietal… Syrian Latakia. 😢
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Post by trailboss on Dec 9, 2023 21:15:14 GMT -5
Not a blend but a varietal… Syrian Latakia. 😢 Yes indeed… the Syrian is so much better than the Cyprian. I wonder if the proper research was applied if it could be recreated domestically? The USA has so many different growing zones, and with American ingenuity, I think that it could be closely matched if there was a will and market for it. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 9, 2023 21:16:35 GMT -5
Not a blend but a varietal… Syrian Latakia. 😢 Yes indeed… the Syrian is so much better than the Cyprian. I wonder if the proper research was applied if it could be recreated domestically? The USA has so many different growing zones, and with American ingenuity, I think that it could be closely matched if there was a will and market for it. Aren't the Turks having a go at it? Certainly the right climate and soil conditions, I would think. |
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Post by trailboss on Dec 9, 2023 21:18:06 GMT -5
I dunno, I have to admit to ignorance of that.
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Post by urbino on Dec 9, 2023 21:38:47 GMT -5
I think that's what Les posted here a few weeks back.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Dec 9, 2023 21:48:37 GMT -5
C&D's small batch Palmetto Balkan in 2022 used Cyprian Latakia treated in a special way to bring out Syrian-like qualities. Note that the claim is "Syrian-like”. In that I believe they succeeded. The Latakia has some of the smokey wine characteristics of Syrian Latakia. When I praised it to Jeremy Reeves, I couldn’t get him to say whether it was a processing method that C&D had developed or if it was something they had bought. I highly encouraged him to use it more often.
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Post by daveinlax on Dec 9, 2023 21:59:36 GMT -5
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Post by johnlawitzke on Dec 9, 2023 22:08:37 GMT -5
Thanks, Dave!!!
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Post by trailboss on Dec 9, 2023 22:12:54 GMT -5
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Other than McClelland, what was one of the first tobaccos to go missing in your life, and leave you wanting? Oldtimers might remember the House of Winsor tobaccos, or even the fine old tins of the sixties and before, but for me...
