Read this post. There may be a couple other posts, in the same time frame, related to this one:
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/85-years-do-i-dare
PawPaw hasn't posted in 7 months now, according to his profile. I hope he is well, he was a good dude.
I got a chance to smoke 3-4 bowls out of the referenced tin. I recall it as being very, very mellow.
The only description of it I could find is:
A blend of Bright flake, Red Virginia, Burley cube cut, Latakia and Perique with a mild fruit flavor.
As my memory serves, I could taste no real Latakia in it. If it was ever present, as a taste, it had long since mellowed out and gone. The fruit flavor was there, still. Almost tasting of Juicy Fruit gum, but not in a bad or weird way. I guess when people talk about the grape in Bobs Blend as being "okay, even though it sounds weird" (I haven't smoked any), well the Juicy Fruit flavor just hung way in the back of the smoke and didn't make it all weird.
In any case, it was good stuff. How a knuckle dragger like myself got to smoke some is beyond my ken, but it is an experience I won't forget.
"To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there."
