Time to Try the Tongue

While I have no experience with Crooner, I will say this......

C&D bulk vs tin is like most blends when comparing. If the bag the bulk is being pulled from has not been handled well or is old, the tobacco will suffer. More times than not, everything is OK. Tinned tobacco is sealed at the peak of perfection the blender wants. At least asside from it being aged though there are blends sold that have age on them. Never the less, if you want the best a blend can be then get it tinned. At the same time, I've tried many blends tinned and in bulk and neither was really that different honestly and if you are ever given samples from another, its all going to be in plastic sandwich bags too. Either way you go, you should be fine but tinned can give you extra assurance of quality.

Also, if you dont know, deer tongue can ghost a pipe. I myself smoke at times C&D Gentleman Caller in a MM Country Gentleman. The very first bowl I had ghosted it. I dint smoke it again for two months and I could easily smell that deer tongue still.

What is Deer Tongue ?

Deertongue, also called dog-tongue and vanilla plant (Trilisa odoratissima), is native to the U.S. coastal region from North Carolina to Florida. It is characterized by basal clusters of dog- or deer-tongue shaped leaves followed by a three-to-five-foot central flower stalk with purple flowers in late summer. It inhabits the poor, sandy soil near Carolina Bays or pocosins and flat pine lands and is found as far inland as Sampson and Wayne Counties.

The deciduous leaves of this perennial herb were the focus of its value to people. Deertongue leaves were harvested from June to the first frost, sun dried on blankets, and sold to buyers that baled the dry leaves and in turn sold them to large buying centers. Two of the largest of these centers were in Brunswick, Ga., and Richmond, Va. Most of the dried leaves were then sold to tobacco companies, ground up, and placed in tobacco products to give a pleasant, vanilla-like aroma. Tobacco companies did not make this practice public, but it persisted until at least the 1970s, when supplies of deertongue began dwindling and substitute ingredients were found.

In early homesteads, deertongue leaves were placed in bureaus to impart a pleasant smell to clothing or hung in bundles in rooms to freshen the air. Deertongue also has medicinal properties; Native Americans and the earliest settlers made a tea that was believed to be an all-purpose cure and tonic. Deertongue concoctions were also used as stimulants and sweat-inducing agents.

Deertounge is definitely an acquired taste, you either like it or don’t. There is no in between fences. As for me, I don’t.

yea, I thought so too. I failed humour 102.