If Tobacco Were Food...

[briarbuck]

To me, there are similarities between certain foods and the way that various tobaccos taste. Smokey, sweet, catsup, cinnamon, bready.

I've always enjoyed drawing parallels between the two enjoyments of eating and smoking. Do you do the same? and if so, what tobacco and food remind you of each other?

#1 for me would be Old Dark Fired and a hearty Beef Stew.

What say you?

 

[FurCoat]

As I was reading your post,I was thinking that ODF was meat and potatoes kind of blend. I would put St Bruno in the same catagory. Wash it down with 3P or Kendal Pkug as they have a tea essence about them and finish off with War Horse Green for a licorice desert.

 

[pantsBoots]

Mac Baren Bold Ky and BBQ sauce

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Revor plug and game pie with cranberry jelly, truffles, and Turkish delight.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I understand the food correlation to a degree. But I've never smoked tobacco that tasted like a Ribeye. Or even a hamburger for that matter. So i never get the meaty description. I grew up in a farming area and put tens of thousands of bails of hay. Never smoked tobacco that tasted like hay either. Or grass.

For me, the flavors are more sweet, sour, peppery, fruity, etc.. I also get the feeling of airy, light, medium and full bodied. I get monochromatic or complex. Now that may be my uneducated palate speaking.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I thought I had the jist of what you were asking us to do, but then…. ODF like beef stew? I’m not sure understand. At best ODF is a gas station bbq sandwich. And, not like a special gas station with a master chef. One where a truck delivers sandwiches in aluminum foil on a rack next to a microwave.

 

[krizzose]

I use comparative flavors to describe what I taste, but for me it's more about components than going all they way to a complete dish or something like that. However, I do think Barbary Coast tastes like those chocolate covered cherries in the boozy syrup.

 

[Grangerous]

This is harder than I thought.

 

[timt]

But I've never smoked tobacco that tasted like a Ribeye.

It's funny you wrote that because I've always compared (only in my own head) SG Full Virginia Flake to a thick, heavily marbled ribeye steak. Not because there are any similarities in flavor but because they're both the best at what they do. Now it's out of my head.

 

[karam]

"Coffee and cigarettes are food" is something Frank Zappa said apparently.

 

[JOHN72]

Chocolate , figs and baked bread, withVirginias tobacco. With latakia bombs, pirate boat burning with corpses roasted in crude oil.....................

 

[Jwebb90]

Newminster No. 400 Superior Navy Flake always reminds me of a sweet children's cereal.

 

[Alex.Jr]

G&H black sliced twist - smoking a sizzling ribeye steak straight from the grill.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

G&H black sliced twist - smoking a sizzling ribeye steak straight from the grill.

…after being cooked so well done that it’s crunchy.

 

[Alex.Jr]

…after being cooked so well done that it’s crunchy.

Throw in a beer and it’s dinner.

 

[briarbuck]

I understand the food correlation to a degree. But I've never smoked tobacco that tasted like a Ribeye. Or even a hamburger for that matter. So i never get the meaty description. I grew up in a farming area and put tens of thousands of bails of hay. Never smoked tobacco that tasted like hay either. Or grass.

For me, the flavors are more sweet, sour, peppery, fruity, etc.. I also get the feeling of airy, light, medium and full bodied. I get monochromatic or complex. Now that may be my uneducated palate speaking.

Example would be LBF. It has a definite brown sugar component to it. I also can get cinnamon off Virginias when I am smoking them slow. I do get hints of cinnamon toast or French toast. Not all the time, but...

FT CVP gives me hints of marshmallow and vanilla. The va's bring a bready quality. Voila, you have Smores.