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.
Food Affecting Tobacco?
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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.
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.
In my experience, raw cacao certainly does. Chocolate as it is purveyed to us, rather less so.
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.
I would assume it is somewhat learned behavior/response/developed taste. I really don't know how our flavor palate works and changes over time. I hated all vegetables other than potatoes when I was a kid, and now I can eat just about any of them with genuine enthusiasm. Never liked fish of any sort. The second biggest cafeteria day in my schools (all of them) was fish sticks (the first being pizza). The smell of even them makes me a little nauseous. With my present palate, I'd likely die in and island culture, as they all love fish. And I would LOVE to be able to even stand fish, because it would be great to have that option when backpacking rather than lugging around my own proteins. I simply cannot do it.
I love spicy. I just don't like to smoke after it.
For me hydration and blood sugar have the biggest effect.
I love VA tobaccos. Esp. teasing out the sweetness of them. I will often eat something salty, or some salt directly, before I smoke. It helps me taste the sweet.
Ok, There's a thought. I considered my grandfather (a WWI Russian Army vet) nuts for putting salt on his watermelon.
I actually don't know anyone that doesn't do that.
Salt on pineapple - esp ones that are tart/sour/overly acidic
As well as lemons, persimmons, and tomatoes!Salt on pineapple - esp ones that are tart/sour/overly acidic
If you haven't eaten plums or apples with salt, go try it.
Also try pickle juice with your whiskey.
Also try pickle juice with your whiskey.
No, I'm dead serious. The combo is great.
You can order a pickleback at a lot of bars. They'll bring you a shot of whiskey and a shot of pickle juice.
Haven’t heard of that combo
Closest to it is a dirty martini with a splash of olive juice
It's like that. It's also kind of like having a lime with tequila.
You don't need the whole shot glass of pickle juice either. Just need a little bit.
Gotta look out though, you can drink a lot more of that combo than you mean to.
Fair is fair. Just discovered there is in fact such a thing, but I reserve the right to be gabberflasted. Oddly, my tobacconist, grocery and liquor store are in the same shopping center.