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Post by antb on Apr 28, 2017 7:58:00 GMT -5
I found this interesting  : HC Deb 06 February 1945 vol 407 cc1920-1W 1920W §Major Kimball asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will give a list of the standard brands of pipe tobacco issued by the R.A.S.C. and available from the N.A.A.F.I. to the B.L.A.1921W §Sir J. Grigg The following brands of tobacco are bought for issue by the R.A.S.C. to the troops with the B.L.A.: Players Navy Cut Medium. Wills Capstan Navy Cut Medium. Ogden's St. Bruno Flake. Players Navy Mixture Medium. Ogden's St. Julien. Wills Westward Ho. Players Airman Navy Cut. Ogden's St. Julien Empire Blend. Bells Three Nuns Empire Blend. Faulkner's Tom Long Players Airman Mixture. Wills E.G. Smoking Mixture. Two Flakes. Rich Honeydew. Craven Empire. Denver Strips. The following brands of tobacco are bought by N.A.A.F.I. for sale to troops in the B.L.A.: State Express Mixture. Balkan Sobranie. Capstan Navy Cut and Mixture. Cut Golden Bar. Glasgow Mixture. Gold Block. Players Navy Cut. Players Gold Leaf. Players Mixture. Players No Name. St. Bruno. St. Julien. Three Nuns. Three Castles. Waverley Mixture. Carreras Craven Mixture. Carreras Curly Cut. Bond of Union. Escudo De Luxe. John Cotton. Four Square. Gallahers Rich Dark Honey Dew Park Drive. Bondman. Skipper. Murray's Mellow Mixture. Murray's Erinmore. Barneys. Afrikander Classic Curly Cut. Royal Seal. Gainsborough. Fryers Smoking Mixture. |
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Post by antb on Apr 28, 2017 8:06:54 GMT -5
And absolutely amazing how many survive until this day (many in name only of course!):
St Bruno
Bell's Three Nuns
Capstan Flake and Mixture
Gold Block
Player's Gold Leaf (RYO)
Escudo
John Cotton (recently revived)
Erinmore
Player's Navy Flake
Rich Dark Honeydew (now by GH)
Craven (RYO)
Balkan Sobranie
Player's Mixture
Three Castles (RYO)
Craven Mixture is gone but has been recreated by Mcclelland as 221-B Arcadia and by C&D as Yale Mixture
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Park Drive (RYO - available in New Zealand)
Skipper (Petersen & Sorensen)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 9:03:20 GMT -5
No Esoterica or Germain?
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Apr 28, 2017 9:40:20 GMT -5
...ah...those were the days!
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Post by trailboss on Apr 28, 2017 11:14:55 GMT -5
Now that.... is taking care of the troops!
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Post by peteguy on Apr 28, 2017 14:23:45 GMT -5
Great thread - I would have been a regular escudo smoker and the hoarding would have started in 1945.
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Post by simnettpratt on Apr 28, 2017 20:20:31 GMT -5
Well that was a cool post. Would you consider D&R's Three Sails a modern Three Castles? And what's with issuing a tobacco called Craven to soldiers?
Well, we have Deserter's Flake, Runaway Rum and Three White Flags on sale, which would the sergeant prefer today?
Mmm, just an ounce of POW's Delight and a tin of Frog on the Run, please.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 20:38:18 GMT -5
A bucket list of tobaccos!
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Post by Lady Margaret on Apr 29, 2017 11:49:00 GMT -5
Well that was a cool post. Would you consider D&R's Three Sails a modern Three Castles? And what's with issuing a tobacco called Craven to soldiers? Well, we have Deserter's Flake, Runaway Rum and Three White Flags on sale, which would the sergeant prefer today? Mmm, just an ounce of POW's Delight and a tin of Frog on the Run, please.
I LOVED Frog on the Run. Inside Britsh joke? lol
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Post by simnettpratt on Apr 29, 2017 16:44:48 GMT -5
Actually, you just made it better. A Frog is meant to be a derogatory term for a Frenchman, from the fact they eat disgusting foods like frogs. They call us Limeys, which is meant to a derogatory term for the British sailors eating limes. Calling us Limeys however, just amuses us because that's how the old sailors prevented scurvy, with the vitamin C in the limes. You bet I'm a Limey, scurvy-boy. The Brits and the Frogs have never gotten along; they're definitely an 'if it feels good do it' country, and not proper at all. Sometimes we fight each other, but we always team up every time the Germans invade a neighbor. PS Pretty sure you had Frog Morton on the Town, not least because there's no such thing as Frog on the Run |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Apr 29, 2017 19:14:48 GMT -5
Actually, you just made it better. A Frog is meant to be a derogatory term for a Frenchman, from the fact they eat disgusting foods like frogs. They call us Limeys, which is meant to a derogatory term for the British sailors eating limes. Calling us Limeys however, just amuses us because that's how the old sailors prevented scurvy, with the vitamin C in the limes. You bet I'm a Limey, scurvy-boy. The Brits and the Frogs have never gotten along; they're definitely an 'if it feels good do it' country, and not proper at all. Sometimes we fight each other, but we always team up every time the Germans invade a neighbor. PS Pretty sure you had Frog Morton on the Town, not least because there's no such thing as Frog on the Run
I'm into British TV big time and I know all about their nickname for the French, just didn't know WHY they called them frogs, so thanks for clearing that up for me! And turning it into joke WAS intentional on my part 
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Post by antb on May 10, 2017 4:39:25 GMT -5
Bumping this thread just because Jim managed to lay his hands on an 80 year old tobacco from this list which was distributed by the British Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes to the British Liberation Army in 1945: GLASGOW MIXTURE! Now that's cool A historical smoke. |
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Post by trailboss on May 10, 2017 7:41:14 GMT -5
I produce gasglow mixture after pickled eggs and beer...pungent room note.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 2, 2018 0:45:57 GMT -5
Actually, you just made it better. A Frog is meant to be a derogatory term for a Frenchman, from the fact they eat disgusting foods like frogs. They call us Limeys, which is meant to a derogatory term for the British sailors eating limes. Calling us Limeys however, just amuses us because that's how the old sailors prevented scurvy, with the vitamin C in the limes. You bet I'm a Limey, scurvy-boy. The Brits and the Frogs have never gotten along; they're definitely an 'if it feels good do it' country, and not proper at all. Sometimes we fight each other, but we always team up every time the Germans invade a neighbor. PS Pretty sure you had Frog Morton on the Town, not least because there's no such thing as Frog on the Run Frogs aren't disgusting, they are yummy! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 1:12:55 GMT -5
Gotta agree. Frogs legs are great. French escargot is great too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 9:28:16 GMT -5
Those were the days my friend!!!! They are long gone, my personal belief is it will be far worse in less than 2 years!! Stockpile now on whatever your favorite tobacco’s are now👍
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 10:21:50 GMT -5
Those were the days my friend!!!! They are long gone, my personal belief is it will be far worse in less than 2 years!! Stockpile now on whatever your favorite tobacco’s are now👍 Sound advice (and fitting tune), but not helping my TAD any.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 10:36:19 GMT -5
Those were the days my friend!!!! They are long gone, my personal belief is it will be far worse in less than 2 years!! Stockpile now on whatever your favorite tobacco’s are now👍 Sound advice (and fitting tune), but not helping my TAD any. What you spend on tobacco’s in the next year or so on the favorites you are still able to purchase and enjoy, will save you BIG bucks, coming in the very near future!! |
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Post by AJ on Aug 2, 2018 11:25:28 GMT -5
That’s a list to bring tears to an old man’s eyes. Wish I had a warehouse filled with those old blends.
AJ
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 2, 2018 11:35:47 GMT -5
Wonder if those old blends are the same today....probably not, since, of course, the tobacco is different today.
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Post by herbinedave on Aug 2, 2018 12:09:21 GMT -5
I wonder what cigarettes where issued to the British troops.
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Post by monbla256 on Aug 2, 2018 15:54:10 GMT -5
I wonder what cigarettes where issued to the British troops. At the top of that list , if there is one, I'd say would be Player's Navy cut as well as Senior Service 555.  |
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Aug 2, 2018 18:42:22 GMT -5
Actually, you just made it better. A Frog is meant to be a derogatory term for a Frenchman, from the fact they eat disgusting foods like frogs. They call us Limeys, which is meant to a derogatory term for the British sailors eating limes. Calling us Limeys however, just amuses us because that's how the old sailors prevented scurvy, with the vitamin C in the limes. You bet I'm a Limey, scurvy-boy. The Brits and the Frogs have never gotten along; they're definitely an 'if it feels good do it' country, and not proper at all. Sometimes we fight each other, but we always team up every time the Germans invade a neighbor. PS Pretty sure you had Frog Morton on the Town, not least because there's no such thing as Frog on the Run Frogs aren't disgusting, they are yummy! |
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