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I loved the Brown Bogie twist. The Condor was gone before it got here.
They didn't make it to Franklin. Hopefully next go around.
I have some plug and rope from the box that I'm working my way up to regarding strength & season.
I guess when it gets back to Box HQ I'll have to send a couple more Condor Plugs down. I think I also put in a tin of that Vertical Plug as well, either a 'Down Wind' or something with a similar name. Who would call a tobacco 'Down Wind'? You might as well have called it 'Interesting Guff Smell' or something equally weird. I swear the marketing department who thinks this stuff up are the same geniuses that thought calling a pipe lighter 'The Nimrod' was a great idea. In the U.K the word 'Nimrod' is another way of calling someone a retard or a cretin! You could see the adverts now. A 1950s gentlemen in a suit with a trilby lights his pipe whilst his friend looks approvingly on saying. 'Goodness James! Is that the new Ronson Butane Retard pipe lighter that's only 9 shillings and six pence?'. 
I've long wanted to try Condor but wonder to myself, what if I like this stuff? I'll never be able to obtain anymore, lol.I guess when it gets back to Box HQ I'll have to send a couple more Condor Plugs down. I think I also put in a tin of that Vertical Plug as well, either a 'Down Wind' or something with a similar name. Who would call a tobacco 'Down Wind'? You might as well have called it 'Interesting Guff Smell' or something equally weird. I swear the marketing department who thinks this stuff up are the same geniuses that thought calling a pipe lighter 'The Nimrod' was a great idea. In the U.K the word 'Nimrod' is another way of calling someone a retard or a cretin! You could see the adverts now. A 1950s gentlemen in a suit with a trilby lights his pipe whilst his friend looks approvingly on saying. 'Goodness James! Is that the new Ronson Butane Retard pipe lighter that's only 9 shillings and six pence?'.
I'll send a couple more down to 'Control' and he can put them in the next box. You can buy it but it is not the Gallaghers Condor but the stuff made in Poland which I think tastes off since they are not using the African or what I call 'Empire Grown' leaf. A lot of the blends are using Eastern European leaf and it has started to creep into one or two of my favorites with the resulting collapse in flavor profiles.
Most generous of you @condorlover1.
I didn't realize there was an eastern European tobacco production. That's kinda cool.
@btp79 : Due to some stupid EU rules the Gallagher factory moved production from Belfast in N.I to Poland. The plug is still manufactured but in Poland and doesn't taste anything like the Belfast version, I would refer you to Jim Inks comparison between the two offerings pre and post relocation to Poland. The R.R is also just not the same although @simong thinks the flake is sort of alright but still a few miles away from the 1980s flakes. If you were not around in the 1980s you will not notice the difference.
Can you tell us what those EU rules are that played into the move?
If my memory serves me correctly it was something to do with packaging size. Apparently the Sinn Fein representative in the EU Parliament voted for it mindlessly as some new EU regulation and then found out she had made a good chunk of her constituents unemployed! If you search it on google under 'Gallaghers Northern Ireland' assuming the powers that be have not hidden the article as an inconvenient truth you can form your own opinion on the subject.
@Jacob74 : Nice so you received a box of mylar bags. Can you smoke them?
Alright! @cosmicfolklore Your "Scarlet Begonias" is some tasty goodness! Well done!
So… someone really like the fire cured Virginias a lot, or they hated it so much that they removed it to protect everyone else? Ha ha!!
Yes, it outgrew its original box. People keep putting in MORE than they take out.