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Hello All! Least Desirable Smoking Experience?
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I tried to smoke my pipe in the smoking room once back in 2002 at Kodiak Jack's in Petaluma, CA. That was pretty much my least desirable smoking experience ever.
Thanks everyone for your replies. Wow, this is great. So fascinating to see the spectrum of opinions! Gaining a broader understanding of general trends and statistics can be very interesting, but I also admit that the determining variable of personal taste/subjectivity is unique from person to person. Not wanting to bash blends for this reason (and to support pipe smoking as a whole) is completely understandable! Sablebrush52: Burning your hair in your dorm sounds like a total bummer. Certainly a less than desirable experience!
Mixture 79 ...some love it, made me gag and ghosted one of my favorite cobs!
Also, hello from the Greensburg/Latrobe area - I actually work out in the city (the commute is the perfect amount of time for a bowl!) Cheers! ...there's a pipe night at a local cigar lounge (Nelson Loguasto's) on the 25th if you wanna venture afar to meet some other pipe smokers!
Also, hello from the Greensburg/Latrobe area - I actually work out in the city (the commute is the perfect amount of time for a bowl!) Cheers! ...there's a pipe night at a local cigar lounge (Nelson Loguasto's) on the 25th if you wanna venture afar to meet some other pipe smokers!
This sounds absolutely fantastic, adding it to my calendar now, we’ll see what the wife says about our schedule that day ?.
As has been said, "body chemistry" (I'm not sure whether that's the most accurate possible term, but it's the term in circulation among pipe smokers) varies wildly as regards tobacco preferences and aversions. I don't pretend to understand why, but it seems that tobacco smoke taste is less objective than food or drink taste is (at least for all practical purposes).
My most dramatic aversion in recent memory was to 4Noggins "Weybridge." I experienced a strong gag reflex to it. Yet JimInks gives it 4 out of 4 stars. My aversion must be an idiosyncrasy.
My most dramatic aversion in recent memory was to 4Noggins "Weybridge." I experienced a strong gag reflex to it. Yet JimInks gives it 4 out of 4 stars. My aversion must be an idiosyncrasy.
Welcome from NC, worst smoke was 5 o’clock shadow one bowl and it went straight to the garbage
Welcome and my worst experience was my first time smoking a pipe. I smoked so fast and hard I got the worst tongue bite. Luckily I still loved it stayed with it lol.
Bought a tin of a holiday blend that I thought sounded really good. Bought 7 tins, actually. Gifted 6 and kept one for me. None of us liked it. Oops. Don’t gift something you haven’t tried!! lol
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. So many new faces.
My personal worst pipe smoking experience was also when I didn’t know how to smoke (at all). Heck, I’m sure each of us are still continually growing at this wonderful ongoing experiment to discover the perfect smoke for us.
I can’t remember the blend, looking back at how little I knew: I’m almost certain the pipe I was using was more meant for decor than to be actually smoked. But I stupidly broke it in anyway. I don’t think it was briar, and I would imagine it probably wasn’t drilled properly. Tasted like burning plywood and glue. Horrendous.
Fast forward 10 years, and I’m slowly sipping the rather peculiar “blend D-9507” by Peretti, in their 150 year old brick and mortar shop, with my Rossi Rubino Antico 8614 (and no, it does not taste like burning plywood and glue, it is a charming, and delicious dream).
My personal worst pipe smoking experience was also when I didn’t know how to smoke (at all). Heck, I’m sure each of us are still continually growing at this wonderful ongoing experiment to discover the perfect smoke for us.
I can’t remember the blend, looking back at how little I knew: I’m almost certain the pipe I was using was more meant for decor than to be actually smoked. But I stupidly broke it in anyway. I don’t think it was briar, and I would imagine it probably wasn’t drilled properly. Tasted like burning plywood and glue. Horrendous.
Fast forward 10 years, and I’m slowly sipping the rather peculiar “blend D-9507” by Peretti, in their 150 year old brick and mortar shop, with my Rossi Rubino Antico 8614 (and no, it does not taste like burning plywood and glue, it is a charming, and delicious dream).
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I made the mistake once of cube cutting some gawith firedance flake so finely that it was like trying to smoke a clogged up ashtray. Was a waste of a good bowl of baccy in my cob
Too many to count! I think the worst was when I tried Cult Blood Red Moon. I am not a cherry fan. Welcome from Charlotte NC!!
Had a burn out on a cob once that sucked. All of a sudden man this pipe tastes awful wtf oh sh*t there is a hole in the side of this cob damn it. Other then that nothing comes to mind.
Welcome from Fresno, CA. I like cheese pizza, what's your favorite?
Lane 1Q in the bowl now.
Lane 1Q in the bowl now.
Welcome!
It was Middleton's Cherry Blend, but 50 years ago, so the taste has left me.
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It was Middleton's Cherry Blend, but 50 years ago, so the taste has left me.
Please put your location in your Profile, as people are forgetful.
Why:
That will save questions in the future as to where you live when you later mention local stores, weather, tobacco prices, availability, regulations, location of photos, wildfires, air quality, etc. In many instances that saves time for those who read your posts. It cuts down on posts or PMs asking where you are.
How:
Under your avatar, (top right, left most of three symbols) you choose "Account Details", which brings up "My Account". "My Location" is halfway down. Whatever you're comfortable with- town, city, county, state. province, etc.
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