Minimal Happiness Requirements?

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DesertDan

Lifer
Oct 27, 2022
1,053
5,500
Tucson, AZ
If I were boarding a lifeboat and could literally grab only one tin of tobacco it would be Capstan Blue.
However, I do not venture onto waters upon which lifeboats are required equipment, and I am most assuredly NOT a minimalist. But in the spirit of the thread, in addition of the afore mentioned Capstan Blue I will list the following:

Northwoods
Bob's Chocolate Flake
Blood Red Moon
Luxury Bullseye Flake
HH Latakia Flake
McConnell's Scottish Blend
Silem's Black
Tashkent
Maltese Falcon
Swiftcurrent Lake

There are so many more I would be very sad to not have in my cellar. Thank God that I am privileged to not have to limit myself to this list.
 

Mikepiper

Might Stick Around
Apr 26, 2025
93
402
Miami, FL
Great question! I'm interpreting this as if my whole cellar was gone and not replaceable, at what point would I give up pipe smoking rather than smoke a very limited bandwidth? In such a horrible post-apocalyptic world, if I could have access to just L.J. Peretti's Smith's Own, I would continue to smoke my pipes with joy. I would lament the loss bitterly, though.
 

anotherbob

Lifer
Mar 30, 2019
18,501
33,656
47
Central PA a.k.a. State College
Great question! I'm interpreting this as if my whole cellar was gone and not replaceable, at what point would I give up pipe smoking rather than smoke a very limited bandwidth? In such a horrible post-apocalyptic world, if I could have access to just L.J. Peretti's Smith's Own, I would continue to smoke my pipes with joy. I would lament the loss bitterly, though.
Great answer too. I just really enjoy digging into these little thoughts about the minutia of pipe smoking. And going a little deeper then how big is your cellar and what's your go to single blend.
Thanks everyone who answered so far. I've found ever answer so far interesting and awesome that I can have access to these many opinions from such a distance.
 

wyfbane

Lifer
Apr 26, 2013
6,743
12,800
Tennessee
Ok. So if my cellar was gone, I could live with:

Luxury Bullseye Flake
Stokkebye 1931
Quiet nights
Devil's Holiday

Honorable mention:
Ennerdale (even the lesser sauce stuff)
Crooner

If it was a dream of all tobaccos:

LBF
Mac Baren Navy Flake (pre Stg nightmare)
McClelland Coyote Classic
Sutliff Vanilla custard (only tobacco my wife let's me smoke in the living room. Lol)

Honorable mention:
Mixture 79
High level sauce Ennerdale
Crooner