What is Kendal?

cosmicfolklore · Mar 21, 2017

So, I'm explaining the contents of my smokey orange mixture, and I list GH&co Kendal Gold Banana. I am always expecting to have to explain that it doesn't taste exactly like banana, but "What is Kendal," stumped me. Hmmmm... I know it's made in the Lakeland area, but things that don't have Kendal in the name are made there also. Is it Virginias made there? A Kendal process? A particular flavoring? A particular dead grandma? Kendal Flake, Kendal Mixture, Dark Kendal, Gold Kendal... Does anyone have an idea of what designates something as a Kendal tobacco product?

hawky454 · Mar 21, 2017

Kendal is the town in which they make the blends... Kendal, England. They just happen to use the name in a lot of their blends, ie; Kendal Flake is a Flake Tobacco made in Kendal, England.

tinsel · Mar 21, 2017

Kendal is the town in which they make the blends... Kendal, England.

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Dontcha just hate it when the answer is so obvious?? :rofl:

ashdigger · Mar 21, 2017

I dated a woman named Kendall, definitely not a flake. That's another story.

cosmicfolklore · Mar 21, 2017

But, is that in the Lakeland District?

So, Kendal is just a town name, and doesn't signify anything about the tobacco?

pipeman7 · Mar 21, 2017

Kendal is the town where Samuel Gawith and Gawith Hoggarth were started and where their factories are to this day. One of the original snuff's was called Kendal Brown. In a descriptor in a way that designates the tobacco is from Kendal and suggests quality

cosmicfolklore · Mar 22, 2017

Well, it looks like I could have stopped my search at Wikipedia, also. But, I was thinking that there had to be something that unified the small group that was designated as Kendals, since they seemed to have a flavor in common, something beyond what was coming up in my Googles.

hawky454 · Mar 22, 2017

The Town Kendal is in the Lake District, yes.
All the tobaccos that I've tried with Kendal in the name have all tasted relatively different to me. The blends that contain their Dark Fired tobaccos and what they call their Indian leaf all have a similar taste profile but those aren't necessarily synonymous with the name Kendal.

jensen · Mar 22, 2017

There is a small ad in Pipe Line no. 40 Summer 1980:
Gawith,Hoggarth`s Loose Tobaccos

Kendal Flakes Shags and Mixtures
Lower Street,Kendal,Cumbria.

cosmicfolklore · Mar 22, 2017

I've also heard several times that "such and such" has that Kendal flavoring, or it tastes like a Kendal Flake. I didn't get a very good answer from Googling it, and thought that maybe a lakeland expert would know more. I'd bet mrlowercase could provide a history of ads, articles, and published items to give us something more... historically relevant.
Sure, I don't dispute the town's name or Lakeland District, just that there must be more than just the tobaccos location of origin. Otherwise, Kendal, Lakeland, phhht... means nothing.

PaulTheScandinavian · Mar 22, 2017

Our Englishman member Mr.Jay may wanna add something additional info for this thread,

meanwhile,could somebody tell here,what is the Kendal Dark like a tobacco?

pipeman7 · Mar 22, 2017

Sure, I don't dispute the town's name or Lakeland District, just that there must be more than just the tobaccos location of origin. Otherwise, Kendal, Lakeland, phhht... means nothing.

There's a whole book on Kendal snuff/tobaccos called Kendal Brown. Like I said, it just denotes that the tobacco is from Kendal and is synonymous with high quality. For instance 1792's full name is 1792 Kendal Flake. It has nothing to do with being related to the flavoring of Gawith Hoggarth's Kendal Flake.

hawky454 · Mar 22, 2017

There's a whole book on Kendal snuff/tobaccos called Kendal Brown. Like I said, it just denotes that the tobacco is from Kendal and is synonymous with high quality. For instance 1792's full name is 1792 Kendal Flake. It has nothing to do with being related to the flavoring of Gawith Hoggarth's Kendal Flake.

My take as well. Very good book, too!

huntertrw · Mar 22, 2017

"What is Kendal?"
It's a corruption of Kendall, the name of a daughter of Bruce (excuse me, Caitlyn) Jenner and his, er, her wife, (husband?) Chris Jenner.

cobguy · Mar 22, 2017

Been smoking SG Brown #4 Finest Kendal Twist all week ... great smoke.
Cosmic, hope that helps. :mrgreen:

pipeman7 · Mar 22, 2017

what is the Kendal Dark like a tobacco?

it's great as a RYO, it's strong and has a nutty kind of topping. I wouldn't smoke it in a pipe. The shag blends with Kendal in the front are all RYO in my opinion, Kendal Gold, etc

PaulTheScandinavian · Mar 23, 2017

Pipeman7: Thanks for refreshing my memory,I just forgot it,I was planning to get it during my RYO years but it was so helluva expensive in comparition to central eu brands,during those 20 year I smoked most uniquely The Dutch blend the Van Nelle dark Kentucky Zware shag tobacco,once or twice tryed it out in pipe and then It was kinda not far to get hospitalized, you got my picture,,

hawky454 · Mar 24, 2017

Kendal Dark is EXCELLENT in a pipe, I enjoy all their shag blends in a pipe, really.

PaulTheScandinavian · Mar 24, 2017

Hawky454 : Oh hell could not believe,,you hard core piper,

coffinmaker · Mar 24, 2017

I just had a bowl of that stringy tobacco, would most likely taste okay if it were cut with Latakia!

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