Do You Fetishize Out Of Stock Tobacco?

[judcole]

No. Do I wish I had a few more tins of some things, or that I had a chance to smoke some of the discontinued blends? Sure.
Am I going to put out time and money chasing them down? Nope.

 

[karam]

Not at all.

99.9% of all the tobacco we talk about here is not available in Greece so I have to think of creative ways to get it from abroad anyway, no need to add another layer of difficulty by trying to find rare blends. Although rare means different things in Europe and the US: Gawith, Germain, Rattray's, Fribourg and Treyer (just a quick look at SP - all blends out of stock) are piss easy to find in Europe, while C&D is hard.

On the other hand I know too well the dangers in trying too many things, I don't want to end up with a wide and shallow cellar, and already the number of closed tins I have but haven't yet tried is straining me mentally. I fear that by trying more blends I am just wasting time and should just pick 10-15 blends I really like and drop some more serious money on them.

 

[Chasing Embers]

should just pick 10-15 blends I really like and drop some more serious money on them.

+1

 

[hauntedmyst]

If you mean by fetish you mean putting on a vinyl body suit and rubbing the shop's shipments of Esoterica bags sensuously all over my body then no, no, no, no, not since I got caught the first time.

 

[blues4goose]

I have access to a good number of discontinued tins, and while I really do appreciate Mcclelland's tobacco, it isn't my favorite and I would never pay scalping prices for it. That being said, I am starting to enter panic mode, as my single favorite blend is Sam Gawith's Black XX Rope, which is becoming harder to find by the day. I'm checking regularly for the boxes to come back in stock, and when they do I'll probably spend an embarrassing amount of money stocking up.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Is this going to be a battle of the cellars?

For some!

 

[karam]

That being said, I am starting to enter panic mode, as my single favorite blend is Sam Gawith's Black XX Rope, which is becoming harder to find by the day.

Try to get it from Synjeco, or if you happen to travel to the UK have it sent to the place you'll be staying (I've done that too after arranging with the hotel reception), you can buy it by the kilo from UK shops.

But yeah, understand the reason to worry since if this weird olive oil/tobacco preparation is ever gone it probably ain't coming back. I've thought about some of these crazy blends, they can't be making a margin off them while selling them at exactly the same price as all their other blends, and they ARE labour and machine intensive to make. I bet they keep making them for the prestige.

 

[smokeyweb]

Oh Penzance... I’ve been a naughty little boy!

 

[Bowie]

I do not, but I appreciate that fact that many discontinued or hard-to-find items are desired. I suppose I would buy something like Frog Morton if a deal came up, but given that I've only smoked a pipe less than a year, I'm still messing around with current blends.

At this point, if I choose to spend more than my average buying price on a tin, it will be on something "fancy" that is currently available, instead of a rare tin.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I guess what I’m getting at also has to do with appreciating something more when it’s no longer available.

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That guy certainly smokes black XX rope.

 

[sandollars]

fet·ish
/ˈfediSH/
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noun
noun: fetish; plural noun: fetishes

1. 1.
   a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc.
   "Victorian men developed fetishes focusing on feet, shoes, and boots"
   • an excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing.
     "he had a fetish for writing more opinions each year than any other justice"
2. 2.
   an inanimate object worshiped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.
   
   Umm.... No, I don't,

I DO however, often fixate on things and tend to obsess over them with an unreasonable desire to possess them...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I guess what I’m getting at also has to do with appreciating something more when it’s no longer available.

Well, of course... my dogs, cats, father, an old truck that got totaled decades ago, Barney Miller, rock and roll... I miss lots of things more after they're gone. Tobaccos too, but I'm not going to go blowing my wad on unobtainables, when there are so many great tobaccos out there. .

 

[mso489]

I think most of my best smokes have been blends that are readily available, to echo my earlier post.

 

[blues4goose]

Try to get it from Synjeco, or if you happen to travel to the UK have it sent to the place you'll be staying (I've done that too after arranging with the hotel reception), you can buy it by the kilo from UK shops.

But yeah, understand the reason to worry since if this weird olive oil/tobacco preparation is ever gone it probably ain't coming back. I've thought about some of these crazy blends, they can't be making a margin off them while selling them at exactly the same price as all their other blends, and they ARE labour and machine intensive to make. I bet they keep making them for the prestige.

It's just unfortunate that NO OTHER tobacco I've tried comes close to the experience you get from Black XX. The flavors of burnt potato chips and motor oil, the texture that just coats the entire palate and sticks for hours after you're done smoking... I've got a sample of some Synjeco brown rope coming to me today, and I just bought 8 ounces of Gawith & Hoggarth's Black Rope Slice hoping it's the same, but I will be very sad if Black XX disappears. I would be willing to pay scalping prices if it ever came to that.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

It's just unfortunate that NO OTHER tobacco I've tried comes close to the experience you get from Black XX. The flavors of burnt potato chips and motor oil, the texture that just coats the entire palate and sticks for hours after you're done smoking... I've got a sample of some Synjeco brown rope coming to me today, and I just bought 8 ounces of Gawith & Hoggarth's Black Rope Slice hoping it's the same, but I will be very sad if Black XX disappears. I would be willing to pay scalping prices if it ever came to that.

You somehow manage to make it sound both disgusting and wonderful.

 

[Gubbins]

If you don't have a fetish for out of stock tobacco, then why smoke? The stuff you can get your hands on is crap. That's why it's still available.

 

[cigrmaster]

If a few of my favorite blends happen to fall in my lap at a reasonable price with a good amount of age I will purchase. If I have to cross the st and it costs 3 cents more, fuck it, I am way too lazy.

 

[BROBS]

If you don't have a fetish for out of stock tobacco, then why smoke? The stuff you can get your hands on is crap. That's why it's still available.

and this is the attitude that kills pipesmoking. ?

most of the blends that went away did so because they weren't popular enough.
besides McClelland. but them too really.

 

[BROBS]

I have access to a good number of discontinued tins, and while I really do appreciate Mcclelland's tobacco, it isn't my favorite and I would never pay scalping prices for it. That being said, I am starting to enter panic mode, as my single favorite blend is Sam Gawith's Black XX Rope, which is becoming harder to find by the day. I'm checking regularly for the boxes to come back in stock, and when they do I'll probably spend an embarrassing amount of money stocking up.

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[anotherbob]

What's there left to want?

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I hate when you show off your weekly ration.