Last night I opened a bag of Dunbar and jarred it. I was surprised to find several pieces of packing peanuts in the tobacco. I fished them out and jarred the blend. Have any of you found "outsiders" in any of your tobaccos?
What's The Strangest Thing You Have Found In Your Tobacco?
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A few years back I opened a 20-year old tin of tobacco... and I swear, tiny little bugs with wings started moving around in there. How they were in there for 20 years in a vacuum sealed 50g tin and lived to tell the story is beyond me.
Any bugologists in the room who can explain that?
Any bugologists in the room who can explain that?
Is it your opinion that Styrofoam will not be improved by cellaring.
Can't speak to pipe tobacco. I did find what I believe to be a pubic hair in a very tasty Havana. I'm guessing the cigar was rolled a little higher than usual.
Can't speak to pipe tobacco. I did find what I believe to be a pubic hair in a very tasty Havana. I'm guessing the cigar was rolled a little higher than usual.
"Any bugologists in the room who can explain that?"
I'm no bugologist but it seems like they made an ecosystem out of the tobacco. It's fiber and that's good enough to eat, those bugs you saw could have been xxxx generations down the line. You didn't release them did you? Could be bad news...
I'm no bugologist but it seems like they made an ecosystem out of the tobacco. It's fiber and that's good enough to eat, those bugs you saw could have been xxxx generations down the line. You didn't release them did you? Could be bad news...
pipestud's bugs may have had some kind of default dormancy that allowed them to be in a larva stage until the air had more oxygen, or more light, or something.
Frog Morton Cellar brags that they have small strips of whiskey barrel staves in the blend to add flavor. I'm about to find out. That's my next tin in line.
Frog Morton Cellar brags that they have small strips of whiskey barrel staves in the blend to add flavor. I'm about to find out. That's my next tin in line.
I can attest to that fact as I surprisingly pulled a little chunk of wood out of a tin of FMOTB, subsequently I found another chunk in a tin of Frog Morton Original.
I doubt it would taste very good if a chunk of wood inadvertently ended up under a flame in you bowl.
Knocking on wood.... Not yet! The piece of barrel stave was not expected, but I hadn't read up on the Frog stuff enough.
I bet that Steve's bugs were eggs laid in the tobacco, and that stayed dormant until air, heat, light, some combo there of allowed the little **ckers to hatch.
I bet that Steve's bugs were eggs laid in the tobacco, and that stayed dormant until air, heat, light, some combo there of allowed the little **ckers to hatch.
:rofl:
I think pipestud wins this thread.
In a tin of Germains 1820 I found some little pieces of wire, maybe 1/2 inch long. Tobacco baling wire?
One of these leaves, about a centimeter long, showed up in a batch of Milan 401 Burley a long time ago. Ironically, I came to understand that it is from an ash tree!
I also found a couple of short pieces of twine in a batch of Haunted Bookshop.
I also found a couple of short pieces of twine in a batch of Haunted Bookshop.
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