Half and Half, too. Don't forget it. Anything sold in a 12 or 14 oz can (these used to be 16 oz,
but never mind) is probably an over-the-counter tobacco that has been sold in groceries, drug
stores and tobacco shops for most of a century or more. The codgers mentioned started smoking
these as young men, often before World War Two, and during, or were strongly influenced by that
generation. Many of these guys smoked one of these blends pretty much all day, to the degree
they could. My dad was a Granger man. He bought it by the pouch, mostly, saying it was fresher
that way. He smoked briars and cobs. I'd love to know what brand briars he smoked, but he'd
smoke one pipe at a time, no rotation, until the bowl cracked. He'd keep some of these burnt out
pipes around to tide him over if the next one burnt out in a more extreme way. He burnt up the
occasional cob, Missouri Meerschaums I'm sure. Many of these guys stuck with one blend for
decades. Changing brand was a major life change, like changing the brand of car you drove.
These are honorable tobaccos to be taken seriously and smoked, now and then, with proper
reflection and ceremony.