Food Affecting Tobacco?

[tolstoyevsky]

Might be suffering from a common rapid aversion to Latakia. One day you like it and overnight it's no longer appealing.

Oh Dude! I figure everybody in the world got The Bug which goofed up everybody's taste buds. And I'm to the point where what tastes great one day bits the wax tadpole the next day. Patience, diligence and variety are my only hope.

 

[OzPiper]

Wow, that invites a few different points. 1) I seem to have my best results with brandy (I spend too much on tobacco to be able to afford cognac, lol.) Sake seems an interesting experiment. 2) I thought of Islay malts. Sweet but can be very smoky
it might be worth noting "In Aztec culture, cacao beans were considered more valuable than gold," and that they mixed it with peppers. Would chocolate enhance the tobacco experience

I love cognac/armagnac and rum with cigars and pipes
Not so much a fan of single malts - but I won’t knock one back

I have sake with Japanese food and have never paired it with a smoke.

As for chocolate - I’m somewhat of a chocoholic, but the one time I tried an overtly chocolate blend, I really hated it.
So chocolate on its own, but never with a pipe.

 

[MisterBadger]

Wow, that invites a few different points. <SNIP> Sake seems an interesting experiment.

Sake, to my mind, apart from complementing a Japanese meal, is a wonderful recreation in itself, like pipe smoking. So many variables, even with just one bottle - temperature, what you drink it out of, etc. Each sip from a single eggcup-sized chokko can differ subtly from the next, as the cup and the sake warm in your hands. If I smoked a pipe whilst drinking sake, I think I'd get a sensory overload: far too much going on.

 

[MisterBadger]

<SNIP> If tobacco became a thing via the Americas, it might be worth noting "In Aztec culture, cacao beans were considered more valuable than gold," and that they mixed it with peppers. Would chocolate enhance the tobacco experience?

In my experience, raw cacao certainly does. Chocolate as it is purveyed to us, rather less so.

 

[cachimbosergipano]

I've tried smoking and drinking coffee, but never had a satisfactory experience. I rather smoke only drinking water to cool down my tongue when I sip way too hard.