The grocery store where I buy Half and Half and Cotton Boll twist has a little locked cabinent where smoking tobacco is kept. The last time I was there I asked about that, and the clerk said trustees from the local prison have to sign for each purchase.
I asked their favorite brand, and she showed me fifty cent .75 ounce packages of Largo Gold. I bought a couple, because she said they are limited to a two package purchase.
In Missouri, anybody can still buy an ounce and a half of tobacco for one dollar, and for those fifty cent Largo packages that store includes the sales tax, normally 9 cents on the dollar.
The pouch is resealable, and has a tamper proof foil seal above the zip lock. When I opened it the wonderful smell of Burley and Virginia tobacco emerged with a cocanut top dressing.
This is a shag cut tobacco and I suppose most gets rolled into cigarettes. I filled up a medium lovat Lee Three Star and fired it up.
After a tamp, and relight, this is a really mild, smooth, and flavorful blend of burleys and Virginias, with hints of coconut, rum, citrus, and chocolate.
Then about mid bowl a nicotine hit starts and this blend gets a bold, burley flavor that continues to the bottom, and it burns with a white ash. The last half of the bowl tasted like a better and smoother Five Brothers, which I consider a complement.
It’s delicious, good, satisfying pipe tobacco.
Maybe I’ve judged those RYO tax beater cheap pipe tobaccos prematurely.
What those makers do, is take $2 a pound leaf and manufacture a product that retails as cheap as nine dollars a pound, which includes a $2.83 a pound tax.
Of all the evils in this old sin cussed world the proper authorities could try and remedy, is taxing a prisoner’s or pensioner’s pipe tobacco $49 a pound instead of $2.83 a good priority?
I’m stocking up on this while it’s cheap.
I asked their favorite brand, and she showed me fifty cent .75 ounce packages of Largo Gold. I bought a couple, because she said they are limited to a two package purchase.
In Missouri, anybody can still buy an ounce and a half of tobacco for one dollar, and for those fifty cent Largo packages that store includes the sales tax, normally 9 cents on the dollar.
The pouch is resealable, and has a tamper proof foil seal above the zip lock. When I opened it the wonderful smell of Burley and Virginia tobacco emerged with a cocanut top dressing.
This is a shag cut tobacco and I suppose most gets rolled into cigarettes. I filled up a medium lovat Lee Three Star and fired it up.
After a tamp, and relight, this is a really mild, smooth, and flavorful blend of burleys and Virginias, with hints of coconut, rum, citrus, and chocolate.
Then about mid bowl a nicotine hit starts and this blend gets a bold, burley flavor that continues to the bottom, and it burns with a white ash. The last half of the bowl tasted like a better and smoother Five Brothers, which I consider a complement.
It’s delicious, good, satisfying pipe tobacco.
Maybe I’ve judged those RYO tax beater cheap pipe tobaccos prematurely.
What those makers do, is take $2 a pound leaf and manufacture a product that retails as cheap as nine dollars a pound, which includes a $2.83 a pound tax.
Of all the evils in this old sin cussed world the proper authorities could try and remedy, is taxing a prisoner’s or pensioner’s pipe tobacco $49 a pound instead of $2.83 a good priority?
I’m stocking up on this while it’s cheap.
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