Amphora

[Chasing Embers]

I don't mean to pry, but what is it that you do that requires 4000 calories a day?

Please ignore if I am prying.

Extremely overactive thyroid. I've never been above 125 pounds and generally hover around 117-120. Started at puberty, as a child I was fairly overweight. Around 12 years old, I began not being able to get enough food.

 

[mingc]

Extremely overactive thyroid. I've never been above 125 pounds and generally hover around 117-120. Started at puberty, as a child I was fairly overweight. Around 12 years old, I began not being able to get enough food.

I'm sorry to hear that. I have the opposite problem and have to take pills to increase my thyroid hormone levels.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I'm sorry to hear that. I have the opposite problem and have to take pills to increase my thyroid hormone levels.

Tried the radioactive iodine treatments years ago, but they made me deathly ill. I've since made friends with food.

 

[mingc]

Tried the radioactive iodine treatments years ago, but they made me deathly ill. I've since made friends with food.

Does smoking the pipe increase or decrease your appetite? I think it decreases mine.

 

[Dandy Pipesmoker]

For me Amphora Full Aroma is a good economic pouch blend. I find it better in a cob.

 

[gervais]

I think I'm gonna start my morning off with a bowl of Amphora burley!

 

[mikethompson]

I will try to find Mixture No. 79 if its available

I asked in a previous thread, but can you get mail order tobacco where you are?

 

[dcon]

I have to take in 4000 calories/day to maintain my body weight. That much Mountain Dew is 4080. To keep any excess, I eat high calorie foods to build up a buffer to prevent loss of weight. The Mountain Dew keeps me from falling below that limit especially on days when I don't get time to eat at work.

Duane,
Wait until you are older. I used to be that way and skinny as hell. At near 60 I definitely have to go with the Zero versions of soft drinks.

I see, the thyroid problem, I never had. I just had a high metabolism.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I'm by no means a health nut, but damn. A 24 pack of dews a day, seems like you'd get a stomach ulcer or 2. I probably knock down a 6 pack of diet Cokes a day, I thought that was extreme.

 

[canucklehead]

24 Mt Dew is 1320mg of caffeine....?

 

[BROBS]

24 Mt Dew is 1320mg of caffeine....?

I usually intake pretty close to that

 

[coming to_falling too]

I usually intake pretty close to that

Nowadays I take two Excedrin and I'm speeding up the walls.

 

[BROBS]

Nowadays I take two Excedrin and I'm speeding up the walls.

BUT YOU SLAM COKES AND WATCH DEEP SPACE NINE

 

[BROBS]

I drink at least a pot of coffee a day. Dark black.

 

[coming to_falling too]

BUT YOU SLAM COKES AND WATCH DEEP SPACE NINE

Shit dude in Star Trek they get Hypo-sprayed straight to the neck with stimulants. Talk about hardcore.

 

[firas nofal]

They are all very different but good. The original blend is similar I would try that next. The Cavendish is an aromatic. The VA blend is similar to something like Condor without the topping. Kentucky blend is similar to VA blend but with Dark Fired Kentucky.

What the most sweet one
I like vanilla flavor

 

[mso489]

Some retailer was selling an Amphora sampler with the various genres in one package, maybe not all, but a selection. Given that they have done one each in several genres, it makes a good sampler for a new pipe smoker.

 

[radrick96]

I went ahead and grabbed the sampler from tobacco pipes. It’s got black cavendish, burley, English, kentucky, and Virginia. Looking forward to trying it

 

[firas nofal]

I went ahead and grabbed the sampler from tobacco pipes. It’s got black cavendish, burley, English, kentucky, and Virginia. Looking forward to trying it

i don't have option in my city to try sampler
which is the most sweet

 

[Ahi Ka]

i don't have option in my city to try sampler
which is the most sweet

I’ve only smoked the burley, but would assume the cavendish would be the sweetest...maybe follow the tips BROBS have a few posts back.