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The UPS-Man just delivered my first 12oz tub of Edward G Robinson's Pipe Blend - which I had fallen in love with thanks to the generosity of our fellow Brother of the Briar, Grangerous; aka: Old Leather Tongue - and devoured my first gifted-by-him tin last week.
HOWEVER, the big news is this: The Prince Albert Drought is finally over!!!! I never in my wildest, most irrational fears, ever conceived that a pipe tabak - being The House Blend around here - which has been around since 1907; or 113 years - would ever be "Out of Stock Everywhere" for an agonizing three months!
But that's exactly what happened.
While the typical suppliers are still listing it as "Back-ordered" at the time of this posting, a sweet girl I know, who was aware how miserable I have been while scrapping by on self-imposed rations of the precious few ounces I had on hand, located for me not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5... yes, count 'em 5 tubs of PA quietly living on the upper-most and dusty shelf of some hard-scrabble, hole-in-the-wall RYO/LOTTERY shop near Atlantic City - for who knows how long.
Pre-aged 14oz tubs of PA, in abundance, sounds like just the remedy to this terrible, terrible time we PA fans suddenly found ourselves trapped in.
Lesson Learned: Even if your daily, must-have blend is something as pervasive and common as CB white pouch, never, ever, never ever, never take it for granted that it - regardless of what it is - will always be available, everywhere, at any time to you,... and, that you and your daily-bread are immune from such hard-times.
I promise you, oh my dear Brothers-of-the-Briar, I for one will never, ever, never ever, never allow this to happen to your friend and humble narrator - Sherm Natman - again!
If it does, then shame on me!
Now, to begin slowly stockpiling tubs of EGR; in addition to more tubs of PA when it becomes available again through the big boys. - Sherm Natman
The face of relief and reassurance on every tub and pouch!
HOWEVER, the big news is this: The Prince Albert Drought is finally over!!!! I never in my wildest, most irrational fears, ever conceived that a pipe tabak - being The House Blend around here - which has been around since 1907; or 113 years - would ever be "Out of Stock Everywhere" for an agonizing three months!
But that's exactly what happened.
While the typical suppliers are still listing it as "Back-ordered" at the time of this posting, a sweet girl I know, who was aware how miserable I have been while scrapping by on self-imposed rations of the precious few ounces I had on hand, located for me not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5... yes, count 'em 5 tubs of PA quietly living on the upper-most and dusty shelf of some hard-scrabble, hole-in-the-wall RYO/LOTTERY shop near Atlantic City - for who knows how long.
Pre-aged 14oz tubs of PA, in abundance, sounds like just the remedy to this terrible, terrible time we PA fans suddenly found ourselves trapped in.
Lesson Learned: Even if your daily, must-have blend is something as pervasive and common as CB white pouch, never, ever, never ever, never take it for granted that it - regardless of what it is - will always be available, everywhere, at any time to you,... and, that you and your daily-bread are immune from such hard-times.
I promise you, oh my dear Brothers-of-the-Briar, I for one will never, ever, never ever, never allow this to happen to your friend and humble narrator - Sherm Natman - again!
If it does, then shame on me!
Now, to begin slowly stockpiling tubs of EGR; in addition to more tubs of PA when it becomes available again through the big boys. - Sherm Natman
The face of relief and reassurance on every tub and pouch!
