I Finally Smoked Mixture 79

[sablebrush52]

With this thread, the precedent has been set:

All tobacco reviews from this day forward are to be accompanied by a photo of a woman that LOOKS the way the tobacco TASTES.


(I can see Kevin smiling from here)

George,

That opens up a whole lotta of ugly!

 

[renfield]

More like anise, pineapple, and sour milk.

I read that too quickly the first time. It actually says "anise".

The first way I read it is more correct, IMO.

 

[captainsousie]

Hef's taste in women before Mixture 79:

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And after:

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So, in other words, we have Mixture 79 goggles....

 

[georged]

George,

That opens up a whole lotta of ugly!

It is whaddit is, yo.

Like so:


40 year old Escudo:





Borkum Riff ---






In fact, drugstore goopers as a categorical thing ---

 

[huntertrw]

Five Brothers Pipe Tobacco!:

 

[Pypkė]

BURLEY

 

[anotherbob]

More like anise, pineapple, and sour milk.

yeah does remind me of cough medicine from the 1920s.

 

[anotherbob]

With this thread, the precedent has been set:

All tobacco reviews from this day forward are to be accompanied by a photo of a woman that LOOKS the way the tobacco TASTES.


(I can see Kevin smiling from here)

what about a seafood blend?

 

[Puff nstuff]

I tried it for the first time recently and found that I really like M 79. I dig the strange melange of flavors - too many for me to pick them all out, but I definitely get cocoa, root beer, and mint among others. It's sort of like a codger burley with Lakeland overtones. And I don't find it to be particularly goopy, either. Hard for me to believe STG won't continue making it, or at least some facsimile of it.

 

[Waning Embers]

I think you're being too generous.

It's like being around an older car years ago with bad ignition timing.

 

[JimInks]

I tried it for the first time recently and found that I really like M 79. I dig the strange melange of flavors - too many for me to pick them all out, but I definitely get cocoa, root beer, and mint among others. It's sort of like a codger burley with Lakeland overtones. And I don't find it to be particularly goopy, either. Hard for me to believe STG won't continue making it, or at least some facsimile of it.

For decades, it was Sutliff's number one seller. I've heard Molto Dulce became number one, but I do know that was after 2015 according to what Sutliff told me back then. It was the only Sutliff blend that Estervals sold when I bought from them a few years ago.

Btw, the formula was changed in the late 1990s because the FDA told them to. I was told that one of the ingredients in the original version and for decades afterward was used in making gunpowder. Not sure if that was the ingredient that the FDA objected to, though.

 

[woodsroad]

For decades, it was Sutliff's number one seller. I've heard Molto Dulce became number one, but I do know that was after 2015 according to what Sutliff told me back then. It was the only Sutliff blend that Estervals sold when I bought from them a few years ago.

Btw, the formula was changed in the late 1990s because the FDA told them to. I was told that one of the ingredients in the original version and for decades afterward was used in making gunpowder. Not sure if that was the ingredient that the FDA objected to, though.

I’ve always enjoyed a good dollop of sulfur in my tobacco.

 

[BogOakPiper]

For years I heard of the dreaded Mixture 79. Then I tried it...it was OK.
Now give Merde de Cheval a try.

It's actualy exist. Not in form of tabacco, but as NET vape liquid.

 

[crashthegrey]

Do so, but be warned... I've heard that acclimating to it can change your whole sense of aesthetic tastes. Next thing you know, you'll be craving Captain Black Grape, and blending Penzance with !Q.

Can confirm. Sitting on pounds of 79 and Grape now. Living the dream.

 

[karam]

The second one is lovely to look at, but she would burn water.

Do you care?

 

[Sig]

It's actualy exist. Not in form of tabacco, but as NET vape liquid. View attachment 388164

Yes, it's actually a tobacco blend too.
Ive smoked it and it's very tasty.

 

[sablebrush52]

Do you care?

That would depend on her other talents.

 

[JimInks]

I just remembered that the FDA told Sutliff that they couldn't use musk as a topping any more, and that prompted a change in the formula. I was told that by Sutliff's blender at the time, Carl McAllister. It took him 37 tries to make a successful recreation. He knew a man who smoked a tub of Mixture #79 a month, and he was the taste tester for Carl's attempts at recreation. Carl said it was the hardest thing he ever did as a blender.

 

[Waning Embers]

It's actualy exist. Not in form of tabacco, but as NET vape liquid. View attachment 388164

 

[huntertrw]

Btw, the formula was changed in the late 1990s because the FDA told them to. I was told that one of the ingredients in the original version and for decades afterward was used in making gunpowder.

Saltpeter (potassium nitrate) maybe? Nah, it couldn't have been, as it is rumored to promote impotence and THAT would NEVER have worked for Hef!