Best Blend of 2023: An Elimination Game
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Mixture 79 and Stratfordshire have driven themselves, á la Thelma-and-Louise, into the afterlife.
No spoilers please!!!
After an attack on all fronts I see Stratfordshire has been mercifully erased from memory. Great effort chaps!
I should put another C&D blend in my sights, but I shan’t. Chances are the remaining C&D tins will all turn mouldy before this game draws to an end. (Only joking…….sort of).
+1 GH’s Rich Dark Honeydew
-1 Solani ABF…….dirty burley
I should put another C&D blend in my sights, but I shan’t. Chances are the remaining C&D tins will all turn mouldy before this game draws to an end. (Only joking…….sort of).
+1 GH’s Rich Dark Honeydew
-1 Solani ABF…….dirty burley
All this elimination game needs now is a good scandal. Some mudslinging wouldn't hurt either...I heard Pegasus is really just tiny pieces of corrugated cardboard with a cocoa topping. 
And can we vote these damn Lakelands out already?!?
And can we vote these damn Lakelands out already?!?
I'd sling mud with you on that one. I love burley, but I can't see what anyone gets out of Pegasus... OJK and HB stomp and absolute mudhole into Pegasus, so it's even more confusing because all three were created by the same blender and company. I'm not exaggerating when I say I cannot comprehend how it's so popular. Other blends, even if I don't like them myself, I can see how others would, but that one? I don't get it—it doesn't taste bad, it literally tastes like nothing, like sucking plain air through a straw.All this elimination game needs now is a good scandal. Some mudslinging wouldn't hurt either...I heard Pegasus is really just tiny pieces of corrugated cardboard with a cocoa topping.
And can we vote these damn Lakelands out already?!?
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@seaweed I don't believe Brown Bogie is on the list. If it should've been, that's my bad. But if you'd like to chip in towards another positive, I'll edit the count.
As much as I love the Navy Flake, I don't like seeing anything hit a full 20, so it's inspiring me to a stick-it-to-the-man kind of vote. So, I'm going:
+ Solani Aged Burley Flake
- Stokkebye LNF
Living:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 15
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 10
Aged Burley Flake - Solani - 4
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 19
Squadron Leader - SG - 10
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 12
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 11
Dockworker - HU - 12
Oriental Silk - C&D - 10
Pegasus - C&D - 15
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 11
Ennerdale - GH - 17
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 18
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 18
Maple Shadows - Sutliff - 15
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan - 7
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 15
From Beyond - C&D - 7
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 12
Black - Sillem's - 14
Dorchester - Esoterica - 18
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 9
Skiff Mixture - SG - 16
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs - 10
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 13
Lancer Slices - F&K - 10
Wintertime Flake - SG - 13
Dark Bird's Eye - GH - 17
Deceased:
Grape - Captain Black
Match 20 - Sutliff
Hogshead - Seattle Pipe Club
Royal - Captain Black
Royal Yacht - Peterson
Exclusive - C&D
Stratfordshire - C&D
Mixture #79 - Sutliff
Eight blends now make up the fallen. Where once Pegasus stood to taunt its numerical underlings, a veritable clique now reigns supreme as the collective masses have chosen to congregate in pools of favorites, least favorites, and those positively ignored. Come to think of it, it's beginning to look a lot like high school. In this analogy, the Stokkebye blends are clearly the jocks and the GH blends follow those two around like yes-men in Letterman jackets. Dorchester, a transfer student from a nearby school, was caught stuffing From Beyond in a locker and giving Solani ABF a swirlie.
As much as I love the Navy Flake, I don't like seeing anything hit a full 20, so it's inspiring me to a stick-it-to-the-man kind of vote. So, I'm going:
+ Solani Aged Burley Flake
- Stokkebye LNF
Living:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 15
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 10
Aged Burley Flake - Solani - 4
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 19
Squadron Leader - SG - 10
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 12
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 11
Dockworker - HU - 12
Oriental Silk - C&D - 10
Pegasus - C&D - 15
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 11
Ennerdale - GH - 17
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 18
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 18
Maple Shadows - Sutliff - 15
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan - 7
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 15
From Beyond - C&D - 7
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 12
Black - Sillem's - 14
Dorchester - Esoterica - 18
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 9
Skiff Mixture - SG - 16
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs - 10
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 13
Lancer Slices - F&K - 10
Wintertime Flake - SG - 13
Dark Bird's Eye - GH - 17
Deceased:
Grape - Captain Black
Match 20 - Sutliff
Hogshead - Seattle Pipe Club
Royal - Captain Black
Royal Yacht - Peterson
Exclusive - C&D
Stratfordshire - C&D
Mixture #79 - Sutliff
Eight blends now make up the fallen. Where once Pegasus stood to taunt its numerical underlings, a veritable clique now reigns supreme as the collective masses have chosen to congregate in pools of favorites, least favorites, and those positively ignored. Come to think of it, it's beginning to look a lot like high school. In this analogy, the Stokkebye blends are clearly the jocks and the GH blends follow those two around like yes-men in Letterman jackets. Dorchester, a transfer student from a nearby school, was caught stuffing From Beyond in a locker and giving Solani ABF a swirlie.
Dark Birds Eye +1
Dorchester -1
Unicorns can't be the horse of the year.
Dorchester -1
Unicorns can't be the horse of the year.
