Are Tobacco Toppings Natural?
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No, there are some stores that advocate that they use "real licorice." But, maybe it is like sassafras. It is not approved for some uses. It can not be used in fermented beverages, as in the original sassafras beer. But, it can be used in small quantities, or with warnings maybe. But, it is not totally illegal to use or sell.
This "all natural". "unadulterated", "pure" discussion has an analogue in food. Yes, you can eat raw fish, you can cook it a multitude of ways, and you can flavor it in an an almost unending variety of ways. It's up to you. One isn't any better or worse (unless you also eat the parasites living in it). But most people prefer their fish cooked, with some spices added. Same goes for tobacco. You can chew it right off the plant, or you can indulge in some dark fired Lakeland blend from Gawith Hoggarth. But unless you raised that fish or grew that tobacco yourself, you don't really know what it contains,
No, I know, I have visited Kendal for over 50yrs,over 60yrs, I know what I'm smoking, you talk crap.
People love to think to themselves about how "pure" a given product is.
It must improve the taste to play pretend.
It must improve the taste to play pretend.
So like does smoking G&H tobacco make people into assholes?
Maybe they're just aggravated from trying to figure out which blend is now Dark Birds Eye.
Then you've totally invalidated your original post. GH blends have a flavoring/topping.
Apparently so when a "tobacconist" can't discern that natural tobacco doesn't taste like soot or flowers.
Dark Birds Eye is now the same as the potato salad. The potato salad has been rebranded as Kendal Gold. The cut is the same as the stuff that changed last year, but the name changed because.
Just because.
What, am I are a liar ? you yanks are not polite, I know what I talking about, do you live in England ? have you ever been to the Lake District ? you don't know what your talking about, you insulted me, does that makes you happy ? I will report you if you insult me again.
I've been to the Lake District...
I guess I'm a dumb yank, because I can't even tell what most of the G&H stuff taste like... much less what it's flavored with.
Give up smoking a pipe then, you are not polite, I am.
The G&H stuff is good, I'll agree.
But if you think it's unflavored "natural" tobacco, you must be putting crack in that pipe instead of Gawith Hoggarth pipe tobacco.
Sorry If that hurt your feelings... I'd be a little touchy too If I had a king over me.
A Southerner being impolite and calling himself a Yank while he's at it...damn, you must have got up on the wrong side of the bed today Funkenhouser.
So like, we have to live there to know what the tobacco in our pipe tastes like?
I’m not calling you a liar, just wrong.
I’m not calling you a liar, just wrong.
Member "Tobakenist" just earned himself a ban.
No, misinformed.
I have.
Hardly, I pointed out fact.
And you just called a Native American a Yank.
Can't report something that didn't occur.
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True story:
A farmer has farmed organically since he bought the farm.
Many years later he decided to raise fish in one of the dams (ponds) on his property.
2 years later he harvested a couple of the fish, and wisely sent them off to be analysed before feeding them to his family.
The fish came back showing high levels of pollutants - unsafe for human consumption.
Those chemicals had been used by the farm's previous owners and had leached into the water over the decades.
Some nasty chemicals have a very, very long half-life